Yes, this is another sex post. Sorry.

While many organizations may exclaim that having contraceptive sex-ed taught in school will increase the teen sex-rate, in September of 1997 Lynda Richardson wrote a piece for the New York Times about a study that says otherwise.  And while the study didn’t claim to decrease the number of sexually-active teenagers, it did show that there [...]

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A Dark Reflection …the other side of the argument.

The latest HUFF assignment was to write an argument supporting to the other side.  So to take a stand on the “Yes” side, I searched the net to find this array of information.

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Information from Reliable Sources

Much of the cyber community that may have stumbled upon my latest blog post might brush it off as teenage ramblings or perhaps just someone “bs-ing” to pass a class.  No.  I truly feel strongly about this topic.  However, strong feelings only cover one third of the rhetorical triangle that my dearest Huff demands of [...]

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Spirits and Demons: Decreasing the Drinking Age

Throughout history, there have been many attempts at “cleansing” the country of the “evils” of alcohol, but has anyone noticed that the cure is worse than the disease?  Drunk-driving stories haunt the papers.  Alcoholics tear families apart.  College students flock to dorms and secret meeting places to binge on illegal drinks, many of them dying [...]

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