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...this quarter, the company announced. ConAgra says it has long tested 60 to 80 jars of peanut butter a day at the Sylvester, Georgia plant where it produces peanut butter, but never observed anything irregular. The plant is now on hold, while its 100 employees work maintenance shifts and wait for the results of the FDA's investigation...
...married couples have better sex,” to “kissing and cuddling are underrated,” and abstinence “reduce[s] your chances of depression, divorce, and STD-induced infertility,” as further reasons to convince students to wait until marriage. I suppose we are to infer from this garbage that regretted pre-marital sex is the cause, rather than a symptom of, low self-esteem, failing relationships, and poor intimacy. It’s certainly true that some students feel undue pressure to have sex, and that many give...
This past Valentine’s Day, a nasty surprise greeted me in my mailbox. The True Love Revolution (TLR), a new pro-abstinence student group, had sent cards to all freshman girls reading, “Why wait? Because you’re worth it.” While I don’t actually mind being “alone” this time of year, the group roused me to actually care on Valentine’s Day because of its faulty logic, sexism, and misleadingly innocuous method...
They even presume to depreciate the worth of women who choose not to wait, implying that they have given in to the beast and cheapened themselves. Such inherently judgmental tactics nullify the group’s claim “to promote respectful and open-minded discussion of abstinence issues.” Even as the group purports to promote tolerance, with its non-sectarian status and supposed openness to members of all gender identities and sexual orientation, it nevertheless belittles those who don’t follow its teachings...
...said. “The Castle in the Forest” is the first work released by Mailer since “The Gospel According to the Son” in 1997. There has been a lot of speculation about the reason for the long wait, but Mailer said it was merely the voluminous research, not age, and he spoke at length about such research. For exsample, a significant portion of Mailer’s speech focused on the issue of Hitler’s genitals—namely, his reputed lack of a testicle. Mailer’s idea...