Is Manliness a Virtue? (reprint)

This article is a reprint of a previous column posted: 6/23/06 I just celebrated my first Father’s Day as a father this year. That single day, once a year, is the solitary break from the typical societal hammering of fathers and men in general. Take a look on any television show that features a father.…

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You are More than Your Vagina (reprint)

Note: This is a reprint of a column ran less than 2 months ago for the sake of those who think I’m a feminist. Throughout history one of the main dynamics that has influenced relationships between men and women is what can be called the “vagina monopoly.” Men want them and only women have them.…

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Is Britney Spears A Sentient Being?

 Britney Spears started the New Year in the same condition as she has lived the past few years since she became famous: Drunk or otherwise mentally-impaired. Britney’s New Year’s Resolution should be to try to behave like a rational human being. The alcohol-addled pop diva collapsed during her New Year’s appearance at a nightclub. Bodyguards had…

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Pay Raise for Federal Judges? First, A Performance Evaluation Is In Order

Say it ain’t so! Chief Justice John Roberts has said that low pay is “threatening the judiciary.” From CNN.com: Roberts said the judiciary will not properly serve its constitutional role if it is restricted to people so wealthy that they can afford to be indifferent to the level of judicial compensation, or to people for…

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India: Hindu Militants Burned Church in Orissa

Koraput (Orissa in India), SVM News, 2 January, 2006:  Christian Church was attacked and burnt by Hindu militants at a tiny village called Biriguda of Briguma Block of Koraput District in Orissa State in India on 23rd December, 2006. Sangh Parivar activists set to fire on Biriguda Pentecostal Church on Saturday midnight to stop worshipping Jesus on Sunday…

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Food & Health Skeptic

PROGRESS IN TREATING DIABETES AND ITS EFFECTS Notes from a diabetic The first breakthrough, one I didn’t predict, is a drug, called Metanx (pronounced, stupidly enough, “MET-an-ex” when it obviously should be “met-TANKS”). My doctor tells me it’s acquiring a reputation for reversing diabetic neuropathy, something I’d thought impossible. Let me assure you it ain’t.…

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