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Commented on Teen sex belongs in teen lit
I have teenagers - I figure that part of them growing up is them screwing up - there are life lessons that don't sink in when your parents tell you, you have to do some incredibly stupid things to realise...
Commented on More on secret copyright treaty: your kids could go to jail for noncommercial music sharing
What ever happened to the US's position of "Open covenants openly arrived at ...."...
Commented on Olympic Committee Member to Chicago bid team: US Customs is "harrowing experience"
I should add - I come thru US immigration for business 2-3 times a year - usually on a US Visit visa - the lines suck everywhere, especially if a couple of big planes come in about the same time,...
Commented on Olympic Committee Member to Chicago bid team: US Customs is "harrowing experience"
Just about everyone I know thinks twice about booking tickets through the US - unlike most other large transit hubs you have to pass though immigration to sit in a transit lounge (international departure lounge) - for example you can...
Commented on Industrial robotic pancake production video
Did no one else find the phrase "Speaking of the final solution" just a tad creepy?...
Commented on Rocket Making for Amateurs - Another Living Dangerously Art
yeah ZnS burns FAST, crazy fast - because it's a powder it has an insane surface area and basically burns fractally - more of a controlled explosion than a rocket motor as such It's also static sensitive - don't make...
Commented on Couple finds $10 mil in their bank account, take it and run
The law here in NZ is interesting - if money like this shows up and you spend it in good faith it's yours (suppose you were expecting an inheritance and suddenly a large amount shows up in your account and...
Commented on Mexican Band's "ultimate cellphone success story": Los Pikadientes
"You gotta watch the video" .... well if you can unless "This video is not available in your country."...
Commented on Record labels are b0rked
probably - doesn't help if you're a reptile and the climate is changing though .......
Commented on Record labels are b0rked
I've always considered it this way .... the comet has landed, nuclear winter has set in, the dinosaurs are running around convinced they'll survive it all because they can afford lots of lawyers ..... meanwhile the mammals are doing something...
Commented on Man whose US immigration notice was sent to the wrong address is detained with untreated spinal cancer until he dies, denied access to his wife and children
what do we do? we support his family to personally sue every single person who refused him medical care...
Commented on Rocket stoves use twigs to cook food quickly, efficiently
Also like a thermette something my dad brought back from WW2 and used while camping to make tea/coffee...
Commented on Scrubbing the atmosphere of CO2
OK here's a slightly radical suggestion - think globally, act locally - start by sending your newpaper to the tip rather that recycling it (carbon sequestration)...
Commented on Entertainment industry accuses campus laser-printers of downloading Indiana Jones
I think they're really printing out IronMan flibbooks - have you checked your toner budget recently?...
Commented on Post-Rapture document delivery
A friend pointed out: "now there's a site that needs a 3 day DOS"...
Commented on Craftsman's $8600 everything toolkit
I call 'Rule 34'...

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aquathink commented on Teen sex belongs in teen lit
I am a senior in high school, and we are reading this book in a class of mine, not english class but a elective about utopias and dystopias. I am extremely glad that I have teachers that are not afraid to teach books that contain 'questionable subjects'. The sex in this book makes sense to me, both from a plot standpoint and a teen/life standpoint. Many of my friends drink and smoke pot, and the only repercussions that I see are hangovers, they're grades and friendships are not ruined. @ #8 at any party that I have been to where...
querent commented on Teen sex belongs in teen lit
"When prairie voles get some action, do you think they're slut-shamed by all the other voles?" feel free to set up an account, get a login name. seems like this might be your kinda place. :)...
Iaman commented on Teen sex belongs in teen lit
To quote commenter #1: "As parents we have to make sure that they don't screw up to badly, that they arrive at adult hood, alive, out of jail, without kids, a habit or an incurable disease and capable of making a living and a future for themselves - but not to insulate them completely from their own stupidity" While I think it's great that you seem to be doing your best to accept what your role is in raising your child, I have to say that I do not wholeheartedly agree with you when it comes to this particular issue....
cymk commented on Teen sex belongs in teen lit
Cory, I liked your column very much and agree with you. We need to broaden the horizons of our country's youth past our own (and our predecessors) limitations and moral hang-ups. I don't know about the rest of you, but when I was growing up, if I was told 'not' to do something or to 'not' go somewhere, thats exactly what I wanted to do and where I wanted to go. The problem I see is not with teens wanting to explore their bodies and the world around them, but with the adults telling them what they can and cannot...
Axx commented on Teen sex belongs in teen lit
Good article, Cory. But I would take what you say a step further. You argue against "moralizing" teen stories essentially out of principle. I don't have children (if I did would my opinions be different?) But letting teens have exposure to questionable moral situations, are more importantly, allowing them to make mistakes seems to me to be a very important part of growing up. If all of their moral decisions are made for them I think they will grow up to be weak adults. Their (lets me honest, I mean "our") mistakes and what they learn from them will become...

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