MADD just sent out the following e-mail to their supporters. They want to give Grand Theft Auto (GTA) an adults only rating because it features the crime of drunk driving (apparently all the murder, car jacking and other crimes in it are just fine with MADD). “Drunk driving is not a game and […]
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If you watch much television, you’ve probably heard of a product called Mike’s Hard Lemonade.
And if you ask Christopher Ratte and his wife how they lost custody of their 7-year-old son, the short version is that nobody in the Ratte family watches much television.
The way police and child protection workers figure it, Ratte should have […]
Last night Instapundit picked up my appearance on Fox News a week or two ago:
SEVEN STATES THINKING OF LOWERING THE DRINKING AGE: They should. And the Federal government should get out of the business of trying to regulate state drinking ages, a subject of no legitimate federal concern whatsoever. it’s also telling that MADD wouldn’t […]
Interesting article critical of women. Basically makes the case that women are crazy and inferior to men (and written by a woman to boot). I find it interesting not because of the central argument of the article, but some of the evidence she provides and what implications it has for youth rights. […]
Tom from SSDP gave me a head’s up about an excellent op-ed in the New York Times today written by Anya Kamenetz. She basically makes the Epstein argument that we should create competency tests to grant rights to youth younger and in a more flexible fashion. Specifically she mentions voting, drinking, and credit […]
According to the most recent issue, it seems ASFAR’s ‘zine, Youth Truth is ceasing publication. After eight years it is sad to see it go, but truth be told, Youth Truth has been on life support for at least half of that time. It had become a one person endeavor (and it showed) […]
This blog entry is partially a response to the e-mail below, and partially a general comment, so not everything is gonna be directly related to or in response to this quoted bit:
Well that is definitely an issue but not the only one. There are many steps it making this country bearable again and that isnt […]
This has been an interesting week. On Tuesday the Washington Post published the long awaited profile on me and youth rights. It has been in development since September and initially it was more a profile of the cause itself and the issues we work on. But a new editor came into power […]
There is so much wrong with this story, I hardly know where to begin. I guess I’ll start with a brief synopsis:
Megan Meier thought she had made a new friend in cyberspace when a cute teenage boy named Josh contacted her on MySpace and began exchanging messages with her.
Megan, a 13-year-old who suffered from […]
First of all, let me say that it is ridiculous to have to defend a TV show that hasn’t even aired yet, but with the shrieking opposition to it (again from people who have never seen it) something needs to be said.
Kid Nation is a new show for CBS that is slated to begin airing […]