Why does she act this way? Why does she treat me like this? Why did she say that? Why can’t she be nice? Why? Why? Why? The short answer is: Because she’s crazy. You’ll make yourself crazy if you try to find meaning in her meaningless and casually cruel behaviors. Most of us try...
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The UK general election takes place on the 6th of May. Generally speaking, my interest in party politics is piqued only when it coincides with gender politics issues, and consequently, even though I’m 34 years old, this will be the first time I have voted. I’m going to vote for the centre right Conservative...
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Sunday was Parental Alienation Day, the holiday of heartbreak. Parental Alienation Awareness Organization (PAAO) organized a Bubbles of Love campaign so that alienated parents around the world could unite in spirit, support and public awareness. Adults, children, and even dogs got involved in the public bubble-blowing events. Reports and photos have come in from...
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Surprising documents made available to this author reveal that Assistant Secretary of Energy Cathy Zoi has a huge financial stake in companies likely to profit from the Obama administration’s “green†policies. Zoi, who left her position as CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection  founded by Al Gore  to serve as assistant...
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Noted astrophysicist Stephen Hawking raised some eyebrows this past weekend when he made some statements about extraterrestrial life that were as unexpected as they were frightening. A scientist mentioned in the same breath as Einstein, Hawking weighed in on the debate over the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in a program he helped write...
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In 1977 economist Milton Friedman wrote an article “The Line We Dare Not Cross: The Fragility of Freedom at ’60%.’” He predicted that as the percentage of society that owes a portion of their livelihood to government spending increases, the ability to limit the growth of government will decrease. At some tipping point, attempts...
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Financial markets function to discount the future. Usually, by the time you read about something in the newspaper, financial market pricing has already “discounted” that event weeks, months, or perhaps even years before it hits the front page and becomes evident to everyone else. That’s what it means to “speculate.†The whole world is...
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More than 40 years after the landmark United States Surgeon General’s report on smoking, cigarettes and other forms of tobacco continue to be the leading cause of preventable death around the world. In the United States, alone, tobacco causes more than half a million unnecessary deaths every year from cancer and other tobacco-associated diseases. In 2010,...
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Parental Alienation Day is one holiday that no one wants to celebrate. For many the name stirs a mild curiosity. For others, a searing pain that cuts through their very soul.
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Right or wrong, the charges against Goldman Sachs highlight divergent standards of banking. There is every reason to suspect that the charges against Goldman Sachs are little more than a political ploy by the administration to shift attention away from its own financial improvidence and to add impetus to its proposed regulatory strangulation of...
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I was surprised by the expose on female dominating teenage boys on the latest episode of Fox's Glee. For all of you who think there is progress in overcoming male stereotypes in popular culture -- think again!
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I’ve got many put-downs, betrayals, exploitations, and rip-offs to be angry with women about. I won’t present a list, but I will for the sake of discussion mention one juicy incident. The scene was with wife #2, the day after we had just gotten married. At the time of our marriage, she was charismatic,...
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I wonder whether Americans realize that they have a Vienna-sausage military at filet-mignon prices. The sorry performance in recent wars is just one example of the ongoing rot, but the whole enterprise has become unbalanced, aimed at fighting the kinds of enemies we don’t have instead of the ones we have recently chosen to...
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No, the headline of this article is not an antic of some tabloid. The story is as simple as it is bizarre. Robert W. Connell is the premier authority in the world on masculinities. A native of Australia, his books have been ranked first, fourth, fifth and sixth of the top ten books considered...
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Over the weekend, collective members of the goof-ball left met once again on Chris Matthews’ show to plot the next ratchet yank in national tension; what immoral people do when facts and logic are not on their side. Yes, they made the racism charge again, making it painfully obvious that they intend to support...
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The gender discourse of today is ripe with words such as "patriarchy" and "structural oppression", words that are meant to convey that men as a group hold power over women as a group. At the same time, more and more people are starting to question whether these terms can be said to accurately describe...
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There’s little doubt that November 2, 2010 will mark a historic realignment in American politics, as Democrats are predicted to endure painful losses in both the Senate and House. What is less appreciated is the fact that men, especially white men, will lead the way. While it’s true that women represent 53% of the...
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A visit to your local college or university campus is likely to reveal that a revolution has taken place. On many campuses, young women now outnumber young men, and a gender gap of momentous importance is staring us in the face. This gender gap has been growing for some time now, as successive generations...
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Only a matter of time, you must think, before you can call a toll-free number at the White House to place a bet on your favorite football team. Let the games begin. The Obama administration is playing politics by offering some lucky contest winner $2500 of your American dollars for best pro-Obama Big Government...
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In an earlier article here I wrote about words, tracing the history of the well-known “studies†of women, gender and men and their correlates, womanhood and femininity, manhood and masculinity. I suggested that talk of these euphemisms for the male and female sexes has produced a straw body of pseudoscience. Understand, then, that the...
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