According to a Reuters story on Yahoo!:Engaging in oral sex may be a gateway to intercourse for some teens, indirectly raising their risks of sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy, according to a new study.

A New Yorker cartoon which is all in its caption: "You have no idea what it's like to be a 'just between you and me' person in a 'just between you and I' world."

From a World Affairs article:The free market is about information. Actually it’s about just one piece of information, but it’s an important piece. The free market tells us what a given person will pay for a given thing at a given time. The free market is not an ideology or a creed or something we’re supposed to take on faith, it’s a measurement. It ( Read more... )

Agave nectar seems to be a popular substitute for cane sugar-pardon me, evaporated cane juice-in foods marketed to consumers of organic or natural or whole foods. Agave nectar contains slightly more fructose [PDF] than HFCS.

Another source says that in the form usually used agave nectar is 92% fructose; HFCS is typically 55% fructose.

From a Businessweek profile of Harrah's CEO Gary Loveman:What Loveman was doing, with a huge assist from Marc Rowan, managing partner of Apollo, and David Bonderman, a founding partner of TPG ("the F-16 pilots of debt refinancing," as Loveman calls them), was making holders of Harrah's debt an offer they couldn't refuse: Trade your old debt for new ( Read more... )

Originally the "party" in the "tea party" protests, or movement, was clearly a reference to the Boston Tea Party of 1773. But then some commentators replaced the sense of "party" as social gathering -birthday party; tea party-with that of a formal political organization-Republican Party; Communist Party. Now we often see references to "the Tea ( Read more... )

Just one example chosen at random: "The White House courts him. The Tea Partiers shun him. The Republican senator from South Carolina, is right where he wants to be." (New York Times Magazine's web page for July 4, 2010 ( Read more... )

USA Today, along with many other news organizations, is reporting on a study just released that found that, among two identical snacks, kids preferred the one having a package picturing a cartoon character. The headline: "Cartoon characters tilt kids' food choices toward junk food."

Seen on the net:Also you are just naive or stupid if you think that [sun]glasses are good for t.v. (I'm leaning towards the ladder.)

The beginning of The Insurance Mandate in Trouble by Randy E. Barnett in the Wall Street Journal:A "tell" in poker is a subtle but detectable change in a player's behavior or demeanor that reveals clues about the player's assessment of his hand. Something similar has happened with regard to the insurance mandate at the core of last month's health ( Read more... )