It’s not just girls, boys want to keep up with the latest trends too. We can use lessons from the workplace to help teens with homework. A new study found a link between degrading lyrics and teen sex. Teen obesity is just as deadly as teen smoking. R-rated movies are prompting teens to smoke. ...

Harold Pollack posts the following image from “The effect of alcohol consumption on mortality: Regression discontinuity evidence from the minimum drinking age,” a new paper by Christopher Carpenter and Carlos Dopkin: The red line represents days drinking per month. The black line represents ...

In case you're interested, I filled out this little survey which asked about my positions on certain issues. Just thinking back to when I started this blog coming up for five years ago, my politics hasn't changed too much, but I think that it certainly has matured. I don't believe in absolutism and ...

Hayden Panettiere has made a name for herself on the hit television show Heroes. The 18 year old actress dates her 30 year old working partner Milo Ventimiglia. She finds it problematic that they cannot go clubbing together because U.S. legal drinking age is 21. The teenage celebrity told Contact Mu...

When I watched the Democrats debate the other day, the drinking age was brought up. Almost all of them were against lowering the drinking age. There was only one person I remember, Dennis Kucinich, that said that he was for lowering it. But I think that man will say anything to get elected. He gives...

Before I pack this thing up and we go to the EMP and the Si-Fi Museum, here's more pictures from BC!     That's the Emperess hotel. We never went in there because all their tourist things sounded really lame, but I thought it looked pretty from the outside. After that we went back to our h...