1. Ethnicity ( Read more... )

Dr. Laura Schlessinger on why husbands cheat“When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings, sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like her hero, he’s very susceptible to the charm of some other woman making him feel what he needs ( Read more... )

I saw this article on Newsweek.com about spanking. Basically, it's not good for kids and is very likely bad (sometimes even very bad) for them, so don't do it. Yay! I was happy to see the article, being a proud second generation spank-free parent. Then I took a look at the comments, and felt like vomiting. I have no idea why people simply can't ( Read more... )

What would be the chances that the most significant run for the presidency by a woman would be made by someone with more baggage than a ball team headed to an away game...? Indeed, Anna.

So I'm not crazy. Check out this Newsweek blog about "monstergate", which includes some interesting perspective on the sniping I mentioned in my last post.

Here are the most relevant paragraphs:

The incident is less interesting to me as a scandal--I mean, really--than as a symptom of the growing rancor between Obama and Clinton supporters. Some ( Read more... )

I've been reading a lot (too much, probably) about the nomination lately, and I have been particularly interested in the comments posted to articles. What I'm seeing is not terribly surprising: Obama and Clinton supporters stating their opinions on the current issues to greater and often much, much lesser degrees of thoughtfulness ( Read more... )

Does anyone else feel like the Democratic Party is shooting itself in the head right now? I think that this protracted nomination process, becoming more negative by the day, is essentially handing McCain the presidency. In the interest of the actual, you know, Democratic platform (I'd almost forgotten there was one) I think that Clinton and Obama ( Read more... )

I got kind of worked up about the co-housing thing and couldn't sleep, so I took a couple of shots of wodka quasi-medicinally (I keep a bottle of Absolut in the freezer for just such occasions) and now I'm drunk 'cause I don't eat a whole lot anymore and never drink. Wheee ( Read more... )

Okay, so this could be totally awesome or a whole lot of suck. We're going to find out.

And when haven't the Japanese been looking to a robot future?

A while back, my sister suggested that her family and mine spend Christmas 2008 at Disneyland. I sort of brushed it off politely at the time ("That sure sounds like fun...") but since then I've actually started looking at how much it would cost to go to Disneyland, either then or some other time.

Please imagine the Goofy "Waaaaaa ho ho hoooooooo ( Read more... )