Weekend Link-A-Dink

Recently-adopted policies are going to make it harder for students with college loans. Over the weekend, it became official. And yes, tuition costs have increased 40% since Bush took office.

Woman files suit in forced strip search. Sheesh.

Chinese education officials have called for a change in sex education efforts, shifting away from textbook-based anatomy teaching and focusing more on morals and relationships.

Accoring to a new study, all-girl schools offer no academic benefit. No shit.

A Freemont homeless man who has three prior convictions for forcible rape could spend the rest of his life in prison if he is convicted of sexually assaulting a woman Saturday. Inside Bay Area.

Not only is Katherine Harris (R) struggling badly in her Senate campaign in Florida, but she’s also having trouble breaking through with Republicans. In the latest Quinnipiac poll, Harris trails Sen. Bill Nelson (D), 59% to 26%. LMAO, pukebag.

The FDA has delayed approval for the new "no period" birth control pill. Hhmm.

Children's book author Robie Harris is introducing a book called It's Not The Stork! that explains sex to pre-schoolers.

Via Crooks and Liars, accusations about plagiarism have dogged Ann Coulter for weeks, but now it’s far more serious for the syndicated anti-American columnist and author. News outlets don’t mind giving a forum to a far-right bombthrower who recommends killing war heroes or jokes about murdering Supreme Court justices, but editors and publishers tend to disapprove when writers steal other writers’ words. It’s usually a deal-breaker.

It's been more than 11 years, but an Ethiopian refugee convicted of raping and sodomizing two 15-year-old girls in Calgary has finally been kicked out of Canada. The Calgary Sun.

Human Rights Campaign just released its 2005-06 report on the state of the workplace for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Amercans.

A 33-year-old Myrtle Beach woman reported that two men attempted to rape her when she asked for help after the tire on her vehicle went flat. The Sun News.

Dr. Robert M. Haddad, president of the Caritas Christi Health Care System in Boston, MA, has been accused of sexually harassing "a cascade" of female employees.