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Obama Speaks Up for Net Neutrality
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Obama Contradicts FCC Chief on Fast Lanes, Net Neutrality Backers Say Net neutrality is the idea that the Internet should be an open platform, and broadband companies shouldn’t be able to interfere with your right to access content and services on line. — Sam Gustin for motherboard.vice.com President Obama made a strong and clear declaration supporting net…
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Real Democracy Demands Economic Democracy
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“Only 1 out of 8 American households is able to have the American Dream.” – Richard D. Wolff, author of Democracy At Work: A Cure for Capitalism, and leader of the Democracy At Work movement, appearing on Bill Maher’s HBO show, Real Time We were told as children that capitalism was good because it supported…
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Adam Lambert’s Post-Gay World
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Adam Lambert Is a ‘Killer’ Queen by Daniel Reynolds for The Advocate Dan Massey and I had a somewhat secret passion for Adam Lambert ever since he sang Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen for his audition on American Idol in 2009. (Can you even remember who came in first to his second place finish?) We once spent…
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Park your formulaic sex at the door
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Like a lot of people, I took note a couple of weeks ago when Cosmo, Cosmopolitan Magazine, the fun girl’s bible, ran a story with pictures laying out 28 Mind-blowing Lesbian Sex Positions. The modern Cosmo was the brainchild of its brilliant editor and author Helen Gurly Brown in 1965, who started dialogs on topics unheard…
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The Sexual Freedom Project: Do your own research
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[pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAB5EHtffJw” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] The level of sex education in America’s schools is impartial at best and at its worst calls for abstinence. What has been your experience? Many people believe that the responsibility for sex education lies with your parents. How has the worked for you? The bottom line makes you responsible for your own…
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McDonald’s Corporation on the hook
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McDonald’s NLRB joint employer ruling Yesterday’s ruling gives litigants and activists alike a bigger target, and a big boost for fast-food workers’ rights everywhere. We like to catalog progress when we see it. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) finally came to its senses by ruling that McDonald’s Corporation could no longer avoid complaints from…
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The Sexual History of America
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First, consider the mottoes and symbols of our nation, but meditate upon their true meaning. E Pluribus Unum—from many, one—unity without uniformity Annuit Coeptis—he approves our undertaking—divine providence is assured Novus Ordo Seclorum—a new order of the ages—we’re here to change the world What is this all about? Are these empty classical boasts, or do…
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New Anti-HIV Condom Available
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Starpharma: VivaGel® Condom Receives TGA Device Certification – Launch Preparations to Follow Don’t Get Too Excited About The ‘HIV-Killing’ Condom Yet An Australian company, Starpharma, has just received its government’s approval to produce and sell a promising new condom incorporating VivaGel®, a lubricant purported to block viral infections, including HIV, HPV, and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), up…
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Decriminalizing Sexting
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Manassas Case Rekindles Debate Over Penalties for Sexting The recent efforts of Manassas police and Prince William County prosecutors to photograph the erect genitalia of a 17-year-old boy for evidence in a “sexting” case has revived a debate in Virginia over whether such conduct between minors should be illegal at all . . . Sexting is a…
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