at our house, we use the term “jugs”

tonya carrington, a protective mother in the united kingdom was shocked to learn that her 8 year old nintendo-playing kid was learning bad words from scrabble 2007.  While playing the game, he learned that “tits” is an informal word for female breasts. ethan’s mama said “scrabble is a game most families have around the house…but [...]


this won’t be good for foreign relations*

the english, unlike us (remember jamie-lynn and those girls in massachusetts, and bristol) have a problem with the rash of teen pregnancies (england has the highest teen pregnancy rate in europe) and they’re doing something about it by making sex education part of the national curriculum. they’re starting the education in kindergarten.
schools minister jim knight [...]


yes but how much damage will that shower do?

after 21 months those crazy tree-hugging kids out there in california have decided to end their protest against university of california at berkeley. seems cal wants a $124M athletic center and its construction would require the deconstruction of a 42 tree red oak grove in its path.
at this point, most but not all of [...]


advancing indiana and the world

that’s what the about us section of the indiana university-purdue university indianapolis (uipui) website says. mr. keith sampson, a 58 year old white janitor and a student of communications may beg to differ. sampson finally received an apology from the smarty-pants administration at iupui after he was called and branded a racist [...]


mo’ money mo’ problems…

we found it only fitting to quote the great sean combs (p. diddy), a parent of at least one student at the equally great horace mann school to introduce this story.
seems that the school that educates the children of new york’s elite has a little bit of a public relations problem. new york magazine outlines [...]