February 2012
Who Uses Contraceptives?
littledidiknow:
Virtually all women (More than 99%) aged 15 - 44 who have ever had sexual intercourse have used at least one contraceptive method.
Overall, 62% of the 62 million women aged 15 - 44 are currently using a method.
Almost one-third (31%) of these 62 million women do not need a method because they are infertile; are pregnant; postpartum or trying to become pregnant; have never had...
ShortFormBlog: Obama's health care plan benefited... →
shortformblog:
54 million people benefited from the Affordable Care Act in 2011 source
» Approximately one-sixth of Americans received one or more additional preventive care services in 2011, as a direct result of the Affordable Care Act, according to a newly released report from the U.S. Department…
And you're listening to Less Than Jake [Brooklyn...
Something that’s inside of me It’s something that I cannot see Like rules and regulations Passed down for generations -“My Very Own Flag” from the 1995 Less Than Jake album “Pezcore”
“Less Than Jake are playing tomorrow at Brooklyn Bowl,” my girlfriend of four Valentine’s Days mentioned Wednesday night (I guess those email mailing...
New Jobless Claims Hit Four-Year Low -- Daily... →
New claims for unemployment benefits dropped by 13,000 to 348,000 last week, the fourth drop in five weeks and the lowest number of claims in nearly four years, according to the Labor Department. And at the same time, hiring is up: The economy added a net 243,000 job in January, the most in nine months, bringing the average gain over three months to 201,000, dropping the unemployment rate...
How The GOP Went Back To The 1950s In Just One Day... →
So there you have it: modern women being told by Republicans that they’re not qualified to talk about their own sexual health, are dressed like “whores” and probably need birth control because they’re so slutty. And this is just in one day.
balltillifall:
It’s not okay because it’s a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. They’re supposed to be within marriage, they are supposed to be for purposes that are, yes, conjugal, but also [inaudible], but also procreative. That’s the perfect way that a sexual union should happen. We take any part of that out, we diminish the act. And if...
“I know nothing about basketball. I only know when Jeremy puts the ball in the...”
– Jeremy Lin’s Grandmother Watches, Along With Taiwan - NYTimes.com
A Taiwanese treasure. This is adorable.
shorterexcerpts asked: If you're a fan of both brutal honesty in non-fiction, and DFW, I think you owe it to yourself to pick of one of Mary Karr's books.
On devastating reads and the latest I've found...
Yesterday’s announcement that the anonymous Rumpus advice columnist Sugar (to read Sugar is to love Sugar) was a writer named Cheryl Strayed, brought me to read for the first time some of her writing published under her true byline.
“The Love Of My Life” published in The Sun Magazine (2002), a beautiful personal perfect essay that starts with the line:
THE FIRST TIME I cheated...
The Colbert Report Mysteriously Suspends... →
Let’s hope he’s ok and this comes back soon.
“Santorum claims that the use of contraception has a “profound impact on...”
– Rick Santorum Fine With Shaming Women in Certain Situations — Daily Intel
Chloe Caldwell, The Last City I Loved #1: New... →
It’s understandable that some people move to New York, give it three months, hate the fuck out of it, and move back to where they came from. This happens all the time. How could they not hate it? It’s so hate-able. It’s disgusting. It’s filled with shit and piss.
But then there’s the other side, when the piss and shit meets your needs. That was my side.
Watch3 Years with my Valentine (by Peter Knox)
That was last year. Now it’s 4 years and I can say I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Andrea for amazing 1223 days and counting. Happy US day.
“Needs-based relationships are doomed to fail, as are ones based on potential...”
– Here’s Why Your Relationship is Doomed, and Other Confessions of a Therapist
A history blog ran the Downton Abbey scripts... →
nickdouglas:
Should screenwriters do the same pre-emptively to polish their period pieces?
They have to care if they expect their fans to care. Re: Mad Men & Downton Abbey
“…The moment of transcendence that might be familiar to those who practise sports...”
– Aleksandar Hemon writes about finding a way to play soccer after moving to the States. via
Transcendent Passes - The Rumpus.net
Stephen J. Burn (ed.) | Conversations with David... →
Prior to opening this book, you first have to acknowledge two irrefutable facts: (1) David Foster Wallace was one of our generation’s greatest literary talents, and (2) His untimely death by suicide in 2008 was one of our generation’s greatest literary tragedies.
Conversations with David Foster Wallace is further proof of the writer’s genius and serves to keep the legendary author alive....
The Geography of Government Benefits - Interactive... →
The share of Americans’ income that comes from government benefit programs, like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, more than doubled over the last four decades, rising from 8 percent in 1969 to 18 percent in 2009.