After the shellacking of the Republican Party by the Democrats on November fourth people are asking themselves “what happened?†and “what do we do next?â€Â. The “what happenedâ€Âwas eight years of a lackluster president who enacted the surge about two and half years too late, surrendered on the public relations front, and abandoned the...
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When I was writing the story on the mysterious murder of Bob Crane for Court TV’s Crime Library, I was struck by the way aspects of his career and life appear to epitomize certain troubling aspects of manhood. First, there was the television program that made him famous, “Hogan’s Heroes.†It was a TV...
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The Travelodge hotel chain recently took a poll, asking people what they most liked to do in bed. Sex was fourth behind reading, watching TV, and sleeping. Our cultural concentration on sex and the association of bed with that activity can lead us to lose sight of the simple but vital truth that bed...
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I just finished reading “Ecstasy and Me†which purports to be an autobiography of the late screen siren Hedy Lamarr although Lamarr sued the publishers over what she claimed were sensationalized fictionalizations put in by the ghostwriter. However, it is no fiction that Lamarr was married and divorced six times. This got me thinking...
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A distinctly underappreciated BlogWonk named Gonzman made a very telling remark on his blog a few weeks ago. I doubt if anyone beyond a few diehard fans like myself noticed it, but the Gonzman’s point was that – as far as he was concerned – any theocratic position that does not affirm the basic...
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Last week, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking told a packed audience at Hong Kong’s University of Science and Technology that the late Pope John Paul II once discouraged him from asking too many questions about the origins of the universe. It’s a pity we can’t hear the Pope’s side of the story – but maybe...
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