Look! Look! Picture Yourself has made it in to the New York Times! (subscription required. Get one, it’s free.) The NY Times! The NY Times, baby!
Wow. It’s amazing to see it there… I’m speechless! Wow! Thank you again to everyone that has helped to make the site a huge success – without all of your support and your photographs, it just wouldn’t be the same!
Better watch what you say these days. This man said that God might speak to the world through a burning Bush and ended up sentenced to 37 months in prison. Oh, and I was told this past weekend that no one can EVER take away your freedom as long as you live in America. Thanks to the Constitution, you will always have that. Yeah, uh, right. Freedom of speech doesn’t seem to be such a free thing any more. [via Charles]
I’m telling you, stuff like this only happens in Texas. “I told Willie not to take my last beer…” It’s a beer. Buy more. Crazy people. Crazy people with guns scare me.
Meanwhile, I’m curious as to what the outcome will be on the ruling about sodomy and gays. Call me silly, but I don’t think the government belongs in my bedroom. Ever. They have no right to declare sex between consenting adults illegal.
I almost didn’t realize that today is December 1st (4 days off of work will do that to you) and it is World AIDS Day: Link and Think. There are a lot of great articles and stories linked at MetaFilter – give them some of your attention.
Of note to me is an opinion article on AIDS a century from now. “Without intervention, a billion could die amid many wrecked economies”. Did you realize that over half of the global population with AIDS lives in Africa?
What scares me is that the Average American kids (or adults for that matter) are becoming reckless again these days. I doubt that the average American teen is practicing safe sex – especially not when you hear in the news about kids having group sex parties, one girl having sex with 10 guys in a night, girls that want to get pregnant and have babies while they are in their teens. And I know adults that aren’t any better about making sure they use protection.
It’s sort of like the old Smokey the Bear commercials – remember them? “Only you can prevent forest fires”. Well, it’s true for this too – only YOU can prevent AIDS. Protect yourself. Protect your current partner. Protect any future partner you might have. Do it for all of us.
I wrote quite passionately about this last year, and my feelings haven’t changed. You can read my two posts here and here.
The first post goes in to my feelings on AIDS, the fears that I used to have, the things that I have personally been through. I wrote it on December 1st last year for Link & Think. I can’t even summarize it, the feelings are too strong.
The second post goes in to a turning point I experienced two years ago. “It was a turning point in my own life. It was when I stopped and looked around and realized that I didn’t want to be in her shoes. It was when the point hit home for me. It was when I realized that there is a reason we are taught all of our lives to “wait until you are married” … because every consequence of sex is one that will effect you for the rest of your life. Sure, you can have sex without consequences, you can get lucky … but it doesn’t always work that way.”
Before you go to bed with someone, have sex with someone … whatever it may be – THINK. Is the pricetag worth the pleasure? Are you willing to pay the price?
News from Around the World:
:: Minnesota Man Declares Land a Sovereign Indian Nation and puts a Strip Club on It. Hmmm… well, it’s better than when he offered to sell a third of North Dakota to the Soviet Union back in 1959.
:: Law will Create ‘Playground’ for Children on the Internet They’ve approved the “Dot-Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act”, creating the .kids.us domain. They think it will help protect children from online predators. I think that’s up to parents, not the government. Should we place bets on how fast the predators and the pr0n infiltrate it?
:: A Feminist’s Barbie Conundrums – Barbie reflects our confusion about feminism in some pretty interesting ways.
:: Nuts Can Help Protect Women from Diabetes – considering the history of diabetes in my family, I think I need to start eating five or more servings of nuts or peanut butter a week! Learn more about diabetes at https://neuropathycure.org/nerve-shield-review/
:: Appeals Court Upholds Louisiana’s Sodomy Law – I wonder if the law is still on the books in Texas, and how it would hold up in court. I really don’t think it’s the government’s right to snoop around in our bedrooms, do you?
:: Speaking of Texas, porn showed up in a Ft. Worth businessman’s slide show and he was jailed because of it – somehow, it’s odd that child pornography just showed up in his slideshow. He claimed it was a virus on his computer; interesting, since they found he had e-mailed pictures to others and the virus placed a folder of printed pictures in his desk too. Nice to know he’s a pastor at a Baptist Church too.
:: Birth Control Pill for Men for Sale in 5 Years – well, it’s about friggin’ time!
[via We Have Brains]