Probably the only “personal” post I’ll make on the internet, but I just want to take a second to remember how Western MA was absolute hell a year ago today.
That tornado touched down a few blocks from the club I was working in. Not only was it terrifying to see the trees outside blowing completely horizontally, guys running in for shelter, and hearing the wind/hail OVER the music, but also being in my underpants and six inch heels with no phone service to contact my boyfriend or family, and no basement to run to, was the most unreal experience of my life. After we narrowly missed it, we spent the rest of our shifts ignoring the few (insane) customers coming in, glued to the televisions watching the tornado suck up the CT river and carry it over the bridge. Then at 6:30, the whole circus that was trying to get my (at the time) best friend home, in what seemed like an apocalypse scene from a movie, which should have taken ten minutes, ended up taking over three hours. In the weeks following, she and I volunteered and helped neighbors, shelters, and friends clean up, but it’s sadly still nowhere near finished.
We all make jokes about New England’s weather being an absolute joke, but last summer, with the tornadoes, hurricane, and earthquake, I never want to see that again.
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Canada’s teen birth and abortion rate drops by 36.9 per cent
Better access to contraception, higher quality sex education and shifting social norms have contributed to a 36.9 per cent decline in Canada’s teen birth and abortion rate between 1996 and 2006, according to a report released today by the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada.
America’s emphasis on abstinence-only sex ed “tends to result in a higher percentage of teens becoming pregnant,” as does the country’s lack of universal health care. Poverty is another factor.
Among the four countries compared for 2006, Canada boasted the lowest teen birth and abortion rate per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 (27.9), followed by Sweden (31.4), England/Wales (60.3), and the United States (61.2).
THIRTY-SEVEN PERCENT DECREASE? Goddamn. How much more proof will people need before they realize how ineffective Abstinence-Only sex education is?
It doesn’t matter how much evidence we have. Zealots will cling to their beliefs.
This reminds me of the LA high school where they cut teen pregnancies by two-thirds after putting a Planned Parenthood on campus. Sex ed works, abstinence doesn’t.
(via deadinmagazines)
“…But they stoked my view that sexual morality was a giant hypocrisy, as I marveled at the gap between what they said and did. Marriage was a sham, I concluded, and making women responsible for chastity was clearly some kind of hoax. It was a joke, and someone was going to deliver the punch line soon. Weren’t they?” — Elisabeth Eaves
Baha, genius.
(Source: fuckyeahweddingideas)
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Eeee! It got so big! #kale #vegetables #garden (Taken with instagram)
and also this guy….
Name: Quenstedticeras lamberti
Age: Middle Jurassic
Location: Saratov region, Russia
