There is, no joke, a steel band concert going on in the square outside my house. This is not conducive to a high level of productivity. I’m trying to work on an essay on Russian Foreign Policy and the incessant noise is not helpful! Please people, could you stop having so much fun for just a couple days? Next weekend, party away: I’ll join you even. This weekend, please be miserable. Thank you.
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I think Margaret Cho’s piece during her hosting of Outfest (a show) on Wisecrack (a standup comedy series) on LOGO (a tv network) was hilarious. She manages to describe and define the issues about which she’s joking in a way that no other contemporary comedians around seem capable. The video is definitely worth watching, unless you are a huge fan of the Pope’s dresses. In that case you might find this a little bit on the offensive side. I don’t think Cho’s a huge fan of the Pope’s input on social matters. In case you’re in that offended camp, you may want some boules Quiès.
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Right now the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate of any developed nation. Although this teen pregnancy rate has decreased dramatically since the 1970s, recent years have seen that rate become stagnant.
Indeed, as of 2004, 13 states experienced either an increase in teen birth rates or stagnant teen birth rates, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data also showed that one in seven girls who are 14 and younger will experience an unintended pregnancy, and one in three women will have an unintended pregnancy by age 20.
Dr Laura Berman in the Chicago Sun-Times.
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That is so brainlessly rude of them! Couldn’t they at least have the courtesy to sing songs about Molotov and Gromyko?
Cafe Belga calls then - it would probably be quieter in there!
Perhaps it would even be worth decamping to the university library for peace and quiet to get that pesky essay written.
@Marshall: I thought perhaps they were chanting ‘Primakov, Primakov, Primakov!’ earlier but it was just an echo around the buildings.
@Caroline: Noo! Café Belga is much too fun and I sadly have to have internet access for this one. I find now though that I finish reading a journal and just as I do so find another even MORE relevant work to follow up. I’ve been reading for four days non-stop and I feel like I’m going to pop with names of Kaliningrad and European Neighbourhood Policies and FDI rates, and population demographics and official statements and EU position papers and enlargement strategies and Gazprom and steel production and subsidies and military decline and pride. Lots of pride. Everyone has pride. It seems to be the one thing that will endure.
Pride, indeed - the only one of the Seven Deadly Sins universally admired by all nationalities. Even Greed can’t knock Pride out of the winner’s circle, though it’s trying its damn’dest.