Ford has come out with a new father-positive car commercial for its 2008 Taurus. The ad, called "We Know," depicts a father looking out for his little son as he rides his bicycle, and then draws an analogy between the way the father knows how to keep his son safe and the way Ford...
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Something sinister is afoot in the land when law enforcement is permitted to zap someone for merely asking inconvenient questions, one of which was what law did the victim actually break, while a new policy is being put into place in the U.S. prison system where jailers may taser incarcerated Americans with impunity while...
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Since we've been discussing the Mary Winkler case and the general subject of women getting away with anything and everything, this story from last year--Alimony Upheld For Mom Who Kicked Son To Death--fits in well. The woman's attorney's arguments are particularly beautiful:
"Linda Calbi admitted she kicked her 14-year-old son, causing injuries that led to his...
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A recent episode of Law and Order SVU has a nice depiction of Parental Alienation. It depicts a grandmother falsely accusing a mother of molesting the child as part of a custody maneuver. (It would have been better, of course, if they had depicted a false charge being leveled against a father, since they're...
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"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."--Rod Stewart
It's a funny quote with some truth to it, but, to be fair, Stewart has been married three times, divorced twice, and has fathered seven children with five different women.
Thanks to Michael Robinson of the California...
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Few Americans look forward to the idea of filing taxes. At best we feel like Dorothy being dropped into the Land of Oz. At worst, we feel like the Wicked Witch of the East having the house dropped on us. As Glinda advises us, “It’s always best to start at the beginning,” and at...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP A growing number of Americans believe that the US government school system has declared war on white, male students. In fact, many believe that young boys are treated more harshly than teachers who sexually exploit children. While Americans are constantly told about “zero tolerance” for misbehavior in public schools, they...
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To hear the media talk about the Iowa Straw Poll, it was more important than the Iowa Caucuses, the Republican National Convention, and Election Day 2008 put together. And when you consider these folks think Iowa as a whole isn’t much more exciting than Amish street mimes, it must take a big event to...
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James Wolcott believes that “the key to Joyce Carol Oates’s fiction is her phantasmagorical fear of sex, her revulsion from the flesh’s treacheries. Sex in her fiction is seldom a tender idyll, a bit of lingering play, or even a collision of will and temperament. . . . Sex is instead a ghoulish prank,...
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