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You’d really think the world would be a much more peaceful place after reading the results of this study.

Young women defined as "sexually active" increased from 13 percent to 47 percent during the same period, and the age for first experiencing sexual intercourse dropped from 19 to 15.

"The change in young women’s beliefs about premarital sex was enormous," the study’s co-author, Jean Twenge, said yesterday.

…The study also found that acceptance of oral sex had shown a strong increase.

Between 1969 and 1993, men engaging in oral sex grew from 48 percent to 72 percent, while women climbed from 42 percent to 71 percent.

And I think to myself…what a wonderful world.

link via feministing

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iPod Earbuds
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Does anyone know if the earphones that come with your iPod are covered under the warranty?  I’ve had my iPod for about two months and already one of the speakers is blown.  I tried to look on the Apple site but couldn’t find anything.  Am I just stuck buying a new pair or earphones?

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Mayoral Debate Tomorrow Night
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Don’t forget to watch the most pointless mayoral debate ever tomorrow night on NY1.  The first of at least two debates, this one is being held at the Apollo theatre in Harlem.  There’s only one problem.  Mayor Bloomberg has declined to participate.  His excuse is that he didn’t have time to prepare because of the recent Jewish holiday.  So now the debate is going to be Ferrer, who is a long shot anyway and some conservative party candidate that really doesn’t have a shot at all.   Should be a great time.

The problem is, the campaign finance laws say that candidates using public funds are required to debate.  The catch?  Bloomberg is refusing to use public funds.  He’s completely financing his campaign with his own money, which exempts him from having to adhere to the campaign finance laws.  You gotta love loopholes and American politics, they’re becoming synonomous.

Bloomberg’s been taking a lot of slack for refusing to debate, mostly from the black community who sees it as a snub that he is refusing to debate at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem.  Still, most people believe that it doesn’t matter whether or not Bloomberg debates at all.  What matters is his record of running the city.  We believe that Bloomberg is intimidated to be on the same stage that such greats as Super Bad Brad have performed on, of course that’s a completely unfounded and baseless assumption on our part.  Rumor has it that Bloomberg may still show up, but don’t hold your breath.  Bloomberg is a huge favorite to be re-elected, he really has no need to show up and debate.

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Wash and Fold Conspiracy?
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Laundry_2One of the main reasons I moved to NYC was the abundance of wash and fold laundromats.  I had narrowed down my choices between NYC and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  It was a tough decision, but after I did some extra research NYC completely blew Sioux Falls away in the per capita wash and fold laundromats department.

It’s not really the wash part I like so much, but I’m crazy about the fold part of it.   You get your laundry back all compact and neat, folded into a tight brick of fresh clothes that’s easy to put away. 

Yeah, sure it all sounds great, living the high life and all that.  But what happens when wash and fold goes bad?  I swear my local wash and fold has just stopped using detergent to wash my clothes.  I always ask them to use fabric softener, and even though they check that little box on the paper, I’m quite sure that never happens.  But now I’m convinced they’re not even using detergent.

The last few times I’ve picked up my laundry and got it home, I take it out and smell it.  I love the smell of fresh laundry.  But when I take a whiff, it doesn’t smell like anything.  Is it possible that they’re just using some cheap scentless non-allergenic detergent that I can’t smell or is have they in fact just stopped using soap to clean my clothes?

Would it be considered rude to drop my laundry off then actually sit there all day and watch until they get to my bag so I can see if they use detergent?  Maybe I could pay someone to just hang around the laundromat all day and keep an eye on my bag.  I have to know.

I’ve tried to explain the situation to the ladies that work there, but either they really don’t speak English or they don’t speak English when someone is complaining.  Either way it’s not gone well when I’ve tried to mention it.  Somehow I end up apologizing in broken Spanish, then thanking them repeatedly and making a hasty exit.  It’s like they have some strange power over me.

In the meantime, I’m stuck with wearing plain smelling clothes.  I mean, who wants to wear clothes that smell like clothes?  Sure I could find a different wash and fold but this one is almost literally just downstairs from me.  It’s so convenient.  What’s the point of not doing my own laundry if I actually have to go out of my way to get it done? 
   

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MTA: My Bad!
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The Daily News is reporting that every single derailment and crash in the subway over the past 20 months was caused by human error.  One of the accidents happened when the motorman fell asleep while at the throttle of the S shuttle train.  We’re not giving this guy a break, but that seriously has to be the worst train to get if you’re a subway motorman.  The S line goes back and forth between Grand Central Station and Times Square.  That’s it.  All day.  The ride lasts about 5 minutes, it’s almost exactly a half a mile from Times Square to Grand Central Station.  That must be the train you get if you’re on subway punishment or something.

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Late Night with U2
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Storyu2U2 fans, get ready to dance around like a giddy school girl.  Tomorrow night Conan O’Brien will be turning over his late night show to Bono.  Yes, that’s right.  The entire show will be dedicated to U2.

Jim Pitt, the guy in charge of booking musical guests on Late Night, said it’s been his dream to have U2 on the show.  He finally came up with a plan that made it worthwhile.  They gave them the entire show.  They’re going to be interviewed by O’Brien as well as performing three songs.  Although I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out to be more.  If anyone remembers U2 on Saturday Night Live they ended the show by giving another impromptu performance while the credits ran.

Something tells me that people who have tickets for tomorrow night’s show are in for a treat.  At least the one’s who aren’t currently putting their tickets up for sale on ebay.

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Field Trip: Seeing Is Believing
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Intrigued by a recent article in Newsday, Is Seeing Believing?, we ventured into Manhattan yesterday to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by car, since it was Rosh Hashana 5766 so there would be no traffic and plenty of parking. So we (my friend Pat and my son) put the top down, tied our hair up and hit the highway. Manhattan isn’t very far at all, but you’d never know it if you tried to drive there on a regular weekday.

As we approached the parking garage entrance on tony 5th Avenue, we were greeted by foreign born people in uniforms, hoping to achieve the American dream, who wanted to search my trunk. Fine. I popped the trunk in this post 9/11 city. The “guard” must have spent a whole second looking in my trunk being sure not to move any of the blankets and bags that were in there. Hmm. I feel safer. Maybe 3 blondes with ponytails in a convertible isn’t threatening enough to get a real search.

Our first stop in the museum was the exhibit we wanted to see: “The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult.” Oooh. Ghosts. From the 1860’s to WWII, people were very interested in the occult and seances were held frequently. Early photographers “caught” these mysterious shrouded beings and also captured mediums exuding ectoplasm from various orifices. The dripping ectoplasm photos were rather nauseating and looked curiously like man made spew. You have to give credit to the “mediums” who even put that junk in their mouths and other orifices in the first place.

The photo on the left was obviously a double exposure and was meant to be a spoof on the popular past time of ghostly photography. The photo on your right was pretty bogus looking as well. In my experience, ghostly energy is less well formed. All in all, the exhibit featured trick photography and/or parlor tricks. Mediums frequently hid behind curtains while trancing and then shrouded heads would pop through. I was disappointed because I have taken better ghost pictures. See below.

Our next stop of interest was “Prague, The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437″. It was mostly religious art and it really drove home the fact that Catholism is truly a Christian Blood Cult. Saintly relics (body parts) encased in golden tabletop tombs, bloody Jesus’ and curiously Czechoslovakian looking Madonna’s were featured. My favorite statue (I don’t have a photo) was a life sized scourged and bloody Jesus doing the hokey pokey. Well it looked like it as he was putting his right foot in and his bloody arms were flailing over his head.

Illuminated musical manuscripts were quite beautiful but the English translations to the hymns were quite gruesome: “The Stoning of Christ” and “The Flagellation of Jesus”. oy. We were making up the verses as we strolled along. Oh flagellate me in the name of Jesus, Lord… My son was saying that if Jesus ever came back, he’d be horrified. Ditto.

We stopped by the French Impressionists, the Egyptian mummies, the Greek God statues,medievall art and my favorite, naked Greek athletes painted on vessels. You know that gymnasia means “naked”, right? In pure NYC tradition, the gift shop prices were outrageous, the food was extremely overpriced and the parking fee was enormous ($30).

Who Does This Look Like?

Uncanny isn’t it?

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Cross posted at Blonde Sense
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