A group called Colorado for Equal Rights obtained an estimated 103,000 signatures, much more than the 76,000 required, to put a measure on the Colorado November ballot that would legally define a fetilized egg as a person. The measure is now called Amendment 48 and would read as follows:
How would you feel about publicly pledging your virginity to your dad?
All across the country girls from age 7 and above are getting all dolled up to go on dates with their dads to special dances called Purity Balls. There, they dance, eat cake, have fun and publicly pledge their sexual purity to their dads.
In mid-October, the school board of a King Middle school in Portland, Maine voted 5 to 2 to approve the distribution of birth control prescriptions to students through the health clinic within the middle school.
In February of this year I made a post (http://www.progressiveu.org/213257-one-laptop-per-child) about a non-profit intiative called One Laptop Per Child which aims to provide 100 million laptops into the hands of kids 6 to 16 in the next few years.
I joined this site at the beginning of the spring scholarship competition and actually attempted the competition, which meant I spent an unreasonably large amount of time on this site. But I gave up on the scholarship when I realized something. A lot of people on this site are dumb. Some of them are really dumb. I had (and have) a difficult time finding blogs with intellectual, reasoned, or informative posts. I see tons of posts that argue for ideas I already take for granted like "racism is bad" or "we should reduce our oil consumption" without adding any new insight to the argument. Many other posts offer up trite realizations like "life sucks sometimes so you should be grateful" or "stereotypes are stupid".
Target has paired up with the American Architectural Foundation to offer a $10,000 scholarship to the winner of their "Redesign Your School" Contest. The contest is open the 9th-12th graders and it runs through June 30, 2007. All you have to do for the contest is create a plan for your dream school.
