The writer Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914?) had some interesting thoughts on love, marriage and gender in his famous Devil's Dictionary.
FEMALE, n.
One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
MALE, n.
A member of the unconsidered, or negligible sex. The male of the human race is commonly known (to the female) as Mere Man. The genus has...
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The leader of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden is expected to release videotaped message to the American people on or before next week’s sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001. The SITE Institute and IntelCenter, two U.S. based terrorist monitoring groups have stated an announcement, in the name of...
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Nine passengers were injured after heavy turbulence during a WestJet flight 80 Boeing 737-700 plane flight yesterday night, causing it to drop 300 meters. The plane was coming from Calgary International Airport in Calgary, Alberta, where their headquarters are located, and was to arrive in Halifax, Nova Scotia. There were very minor cases of...
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A Romanian soldier was killed on Thursday in Afghanistan and two others were wounded after their armored personnel carrier ran over a makeshift device. According to Romanian daily Evenimentul Zilei, this brings up to seven the number of Romanian soldiers dead on the ‘anti-terror’ front in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sergeant Major Aurel Marcu, 31,...
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According to the highest ranking police officer in New South Wales, the cast and crew of Australian TV show, The Chaser’s War on Everything could have been shot during a prank staged in Sydney where they breached APEC security. The comedians staged a fake motorcade to gain access to the APEC restricted area in...
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According to the highest ranking police officer in New South Wales, the cast and crew of Australian TV show, The Chaser’s War on Everything could have been shot during a prank staged in Sydney where they breached APEC security. The comedians staged a fake motorcade to gain access to the APEC restricted area in...
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Syria has fired on Israeli fighter jets after they claim that the planes entered Syrian territory “dropping ammunition” and traveling at the speed of sound. “Air defense units confronted them and forced them to leave after they dropped some ammunition in deserted areas without causing any human or material damage. We warn the Israeli...
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Tigers hit another walkoff single to win * Tigers 3, White Sox 2: After winning on Wednesday with a walkoff single in the 11th inning, the Tigers overcame a 2-1 deficit in the bottom of the 9th inning with two RBI singles to win, 3-2. Pinch hitter Sean Casey drove in the tying run...
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We tried it in the United States from 1781 until the Constitution was ratified in 1789. Columnist Charles Krauthammer observes that the political process in Iraq is moving in the direction of informal partitioning into a Kurdish region in the north, a Sunni region, and a Shiite province in the south, with Baghdad as...
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The Federal Election Commission has recently ruled on the complaint filed against Kos Media (of DailyKos.com fame) that alleged it was running a political committee and did not file the required disclosures. The case was MUR 5928 and the documents are available via the Commission’s Enforcement Query System (put 5928 in the case field)....
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This CNN report details the controversy over Southwest Airlines temporarily tossing 23-year-old Kyla Ebbert off of a flight because of her (allegedly) excessively revealing miniskirt.
(I include the picture here merely so readers can judge for themselves whether the clothing was inappropriate or not--I know that none of my readers could ever have any interest in...
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Thanks to Amy J.L. Baker, author of Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Breaking the Ties that Bind, for the cartoon.
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Ned Holstein has an interesting post on the Fathers & Families blog about new research on what children of divorce desire in custody arrangements. The researchers concluded:
"The vast majority of participants from divorced families desired more father involvement than they had received. As a result, it appears that divorce leaves many children with unmet...
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On September 12, 2007 at 9a.m., the Supreme Court of Kentucky, in the University of Kentucky’s College of Law courtroom, will hear oral arguments in two potential landmark cases involving parents and children. The first case involves a biological father’s right to seek custody of his infant son. The second case relates to whether...
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In a recent letter to Annie's Mailbox, a wife wants to quit her job but her husband doesn't want her to. Believe it or not, while I can certainly understand her husband's position, I also sympathize with hers, at least how it's laid out here.
Men today and in the past have often been vilified by feminists...
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