This cartoon made me LOL.
An interesting article on new stats of how we (the country) break down on marriage, divorce, teen sex, and teen pregnancy.
Some advice if you have post-partum (um, electoral?) depression.Just a personal statement: thanks to this election, there are a few words that I am going need a few months to recover from hearing way too often. For example, "maverick." Or "my friends" (this one I may never be able to hear again). We can also add "historic" onto that list. Aren't all presidential elections "historic"? Or maybe the problem is that we don't see all presidential elections as historic.
And in other news, like, outside of our crazy country. Taiwan and China signed HISTORIC accords, continuing Taiwan's trend towards more pro-China relations. Perhaps you don't care/know all that much about a small little island south of Japan (it's true - most people seem to think that I mean "Thailand" when I say "Taiwan"). Truthfully, I don't know enough about the intricate politics (of policy and identity) in order to make a judgment on which side I stand. But more interestingly, please compare
this article from the NYTimes and
this article from Radio France International. Both of which are still very pro-China, but RFI mentions protests in the headline, and significantly includes a photo of a protester and policeman clashing, whereas the
Times article, which is twice as long, buries protests deep into the article (the second to last paragraph, right before the pandas). And this is our beacon of liberal media.
Labels: abstinence-only, Taiwan/China relations, teenagers
