Where did you find me?
Star-crossed lovers with a happy ending. And here’s another great story of lost and then found.
Continue reading →Category Archives: Men and women; marriage and divorce and sex
China’s population decline
Many people probably remember the Chinese policy that limited births per family to one. It officially ended just a few years ago, but the damage was done, as Austin Bay notes: China’s fertility rate in 2010 dropped to 1.5 children … Continue reading →
More on the civil war brewing in the Catholic Church over alleged sexual abuse and its coverup
If this article by Paul A. Rahe is true, we’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg. I would add, however, that although (as Rahe states) same-sex pederasty, not pedophilia, is the mechanism of a great deal of the alleged … Continue reading →
Sexual abuse: the Catholic Church and the daycare cases
Someone has to write it, so I guess I will. How are the accusations against Catholic priests—such as those that appear in the Pennsylvania grand jury report—substantiated as true or almost certainly true? How many involve evidence in addition to … Continue reading →
Love is in the air
Can it be that one in fifty people have found true love on an airplane? I find it a bit hard to believe. I’ve struck up a few interesting conversations, but the closest I’ve come to an emotional bond was … Continue reading →
What’s going on with Pope Francis and the sex abuse scandals?
I certainly don’t know—even though yesterday I visited the Vatican and did the tour thing. Nary a word was said about the current crisis facing the Pope. It was silence in the Sistine Chapel all the way. One thing about … Continue reading →
#MeToo and the lesbian feminist lit prof
From The New Yorker: Ronell, who is sixty-six, is a literary scholar and philosopher at New York University and, by all accounts, one of the great academic minds of our time. Her accuser is Nimrod Reitman, her former doctoral student, … Continue reading →
The Asia Argento saga and #MeToo
My finger is not on the pulse of movies, and so I’d never heard of Asia Argento before the Weinstein scandal in which she was one of his earliest and most vocal accusers, a regular star of the #MeToo movement. … Continue reading →
Madonna…
..keeps on…trucking. I never had a taste for whatever it is she does. But anyway, she’s still doing it. At nearly 60.
Continue reading →Bret Easton Ellis on identity politics
I’ve never read anything by Bret Easton Ellis before. One reason is that I don’t like fiction all that much unless it’s fabulous, and I definitely don’t like violent fiction, which by all accounts American Psycho (Ellis’s most popular novel) … Continue reading →
Les Moonves: #HeToo
I confess that I’d never heard of Les Moonves before the recent accusations of sexual harassment came out against him. I also have a general attitude against unverified allegations of this type, which I’ve expressed many times before, and it … Continue reading →
Come and get those pheromones
“Low-cost pheromones!!” a bot that tried to post today on the blog advertised. I used to get up to 10,000 spambots a day here, the vast majority trapped in a spam filter than I had to clean out several times … Continue reading →