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Here is the email conversation between the Eagle County sheriff’s department and “Nick,” the guy who sold them the “hanging Kobe” t-shirts.

Sixty-one percent of teens who took “abstinence pledges” had engaged in sex within a year of signing, according to this article. In addition, another 20 percent or so had engaged at least in oral sex.

In addition, those who did have sex–while at 17.6 years it was a year later than non-pledgers–are less likely to use protection.

Therefore, students who take abstinence pledges are more likely to have teenage pregnancies, and, possibly, STDs.

Thanks, abstinence-only education!

Pedro told you he was tired and suggested having a reliever warm up in case he got in trouble.

Joan Kroc left $200 million to National Public Radio in her will–more than twice the station’s yearly budget.

I bet this creates a lot of inner conflict for vegetarian NPR listeners.

ESPN.com’s Page 2 is three years old today…and still looking for its first article that doesn’t contain the word “Kournikova,” “J-Lo,” or, in the case of Ralph Wiley, “racist.”

Just funnin’, Page 2. You know I loves ya.

Eagle County Sheriff and District Attorney office employees ordered 76 anti-Kobe t-shirts with a picture of a hanging man on the front and their choice of two (count ‘em, two!) slams against the Lakers superstar. Unlike most of Kobe’s slams, however, these are not worth two points.

Sadly, I’m fairly confident that the defense in this case is going to come down to two arguments: “she’s a slut” and “the area is racist,” neither of which are appropriate, or, (hopefully) true. The t-shirt order does little to refute the latter, however.

Gregg Easterbrook announced that “Somehow, somewhere, Tuesday Morning Quarterback will return to the Web on November 11th.”

This is great news, as I hold the disappearance of TMQ directly responsible for the Vikings’ losses the past two weeks; they are undefeated this season during weeks that TMQ is published. Look for a victory Sunday over the San Diego Lightning Bolts.

Jeff Zucker, chief of NBC Entertainment, admitted that some their shows “just sucked.”

In a valiant effort to suck less, NBC has canceled “Coupling,” the American rip-off of a British rip-off of “Friends.”

No word yet from Rubert Murdoch on whether sucking was the reason FOX canceled “Skin.” (His FATHER is an UNEMPLOYED ACTOR!!)

Meanwhile, CBS decided to pull what looked to be a trashy biopic of Ronald Reagan. As a strong believer in the First Amendment, I feel that the pressure Republicans put on CBS was wrong, not to mention hypocritical in light of FOX News’ “Fair and Balanced” constant whining about the “liberal media.” As a TV/Film major, however, I am overjoyed; the less halfway-fictionalized crap I see on television, the better.

President Bush is expected to sign a bill today banning partial-birth abortions, even in cases where the mother’s life is at danger. I wonder how he’d feel if one of his daughters were raped, then in mortal danger in her third trimester.

Dubya says signing the bill promotes “a culture of life in America.” This from the man who sent over 130 people to die during his time as Texas Governor, often with questionable appointed legal representation. Heaven forbid he take more than 15 minutes to consider whether someone lives or dies.

Update
Oh, Bush signed it, but US District Judge Richard Kopf blocked the bill’s implementation–in Nebraska, at least.

Although the remaining members of Boston University’s Board of Trustees essentially kicked Daniel Goldin out of the presidency before he started the job, BU students will still get November 17, Goldin’s “Inauguration Day” off.

After all, as one student quoted in the above story said, “We paid $1.8 million for that day off – we definitely should have it.”