• February 13, 2012

abstinence

“Independent contractor” Bristol Palin (hey, she works hard at being a teenager who got knocked up!) was paid $262,500 in 2009 by the Candie’s Foundation, the group that has her speak about why teenagers should be abstinent even though her not being abstinent is why she gets to be paid $262,500 a year despite having [...]

After receiving criticism for approving funding to pay Bristol Palin tens of thousands of dollars to speak there, Washington University in St. Louis has finally bowed to pressure after realizing it is, in fact, a real school. The group responsible for hiring Bristol put out a statement stating that they talked to her and jointly [...]

If you every have picked up a copy of that dumb U.S. News ranking of schools and looked at the list, you have likely been surprised that something called “Washington University in St. Louis” is considered among the very best. Yes, that sounds like the name of one of those fake schools that steal government [...]

“You’re going to stop the whole country from having sex?” She’s had seven years to get it done. She hasn’t. Time to elect a new stopper-of-human-reproduction. [Plum Line]

Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty has decided to pass up $850,000 in federal sex education funds, because he would rather waste his state’s own money to teach children about “abstinence.” Have fun, kids: Reproductive rights groups chastised Gov. Tim Pawlenty Monday for refusing federal money for comprehensive sex education in exchange for abstinence-education funds that will [...]

Tracy Jackson, you have made very poor choices in life. You are pretty and reasonably young. And yet you *allegedly* let this gross old Jesus Freak Republican Family Values Congressman climb all over you and hump on you. Also, Tracy Jackson, Fox News reports that you are *also* married. UPDATE: Oh you think you can [...]

Yes, it really did take us several minutes to realize that this poster from the Values Voters Summit was not, in all likelihood, referring to Cock Rings. (Although that has not been confirmed.) Just standard “finger rings,” like in marriage, sized for a nice lady and her husband the 16-foot-tall space giant, Kron. [Jeff Malet/TPM]

“Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin’s five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.” WAIT, WHAT?