The Washington Post reports that a small amount of so-called “pro-life” drugstores are cropping up in some suburban and rural areas around the country. This interesting new trend brings up all sorts of issues about the implications of free speech. Even though the owners of these pharmacies are claiming to serve as simply an alternative […]

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*I feel the need to place a warning of sorts here, as the topic of this post involves a series of ads which are rather graphic and disturbing.*
The other day I stumbled upon an ad that struck me as both tragic and terrifying. It was a picture of a teenage girl lying stomach-down on […]

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Drugs. I’ve never tried them, never been tempted to experiment… but that’s more than I can say for my younger brother. He’s 15 years old and likes to smoke pot, he doesn’t see anything wrong with it. Out of all the drugs, it is probably the least bad, but it still worries me. Last night […]

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Yesterday my 16 year old sister and I were discussing our respective schools (college and high school) and there was one thing we could relate to each other on…the surprising number of young people at our schools smoking! It is staggering to me how many young people – including young girls – smoke in this […]

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There is a really interesting article in today’s New York Times about eight to twelve year old girls being knowledgable about raunchy, drug-laden gossip. The article talks about how younger girls, ‘tweens, who aren’t necessarily teenagers yet being cognizant of celebritiy gossip, but rejecting celebrities antics as immoral and bad for girls. Maybe […]

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I get a little sad everytime I watch the movie “The Parent Trap,” because it’s before things started going wrong for Lindsay Lohan, and clearly the start of where things started going wrong for Lindsay Lohan. Lindsay Lohan’s life seems like a recipe for disaster: alcoholic dad + stagemom mother + young fame and […]

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