Baghdad, Iraq, Spring 2004 “49 weeks down in this desert” said Ian to Elliot as they walked through the rail station on one of their last days of work before handing the reins over to their replacements. Just three weeks until their boots hit the soil in the States after a year spent in the …
As some of you have surely noticed, my offerings here have been scant of late. I have had some medical problems, mainly some rather nasty kidney stones and the resultant treatments and medications that go with that. Add to that the wonderful experience of getting my medical treatment through the Veterans Administration and it is …
In effect, parents are supposed to tell the kids: I won’t see you as much, and I’m ok with it, and it’s no one’s fault — thus making these parents appear either callous or foolish.
My interest is in the what I call the Gender Excuse Index, and I am guessing it will be 96 hours or less before one or more soundbites about how she was the real victim will be delivered from a high profile source.
For feminists and conservatives, the enemy is pornography, hence the new word I’ve coined: misaporno. They hate it, hate it, hate it.
With this attitude, women may come to feel that the appropriate use of their significant social skills and power is to dismember the men around them in a social analogy to the physically powerful serial killer…
Just yesterday, a man died in Brisbane, Australia. He self immolated, reportedly after going through the family court system. Let me repeat that. After experiencing the family court in Australia, the man doused himself with gasoline and set himself afire, resulting in 3rd degree burns to over 90% of his body. The scene was apparently …
Renada Williams got mad at her boyfriend. So she had him beaten, raped and tortured. According to Philadelphia police, Williams, who was angry at her 29 year old lover for undetermined reasons, orchestrated a plan of revenge so sadistic and unconscionable that readers must be warned in advance that the details are graphic and disturbing. …
I get email from readers in trouble on a fairly regular basis. Most of the time it is men looking for a divorce lawyer or those trying to defend themselves from a false accusation. I seldom have a place to send them for any relief. Upon occasion I get someone’s “whole” story. Many of them …
Recently I posted an open letter to Dr. Robert Brannon of the National Organization of Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) regarding their upcoming conference on men and masculinity. The letter was also sent to Dr. Brannon via Email. In it, I expressed concerns over what appears to be positions and activities by NOMAS that are in diametric opposition …
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