The topic of Juanita Broaddrick’s rape accusation against Bill Clinton has come up again this campaign season, a result of Donald Trump bringing it up in an interview with Sean Hannity. Although anyone who reads this blog regularly knows I … Continue reading →
And so he—that is, his Departments of Justice and Education—have issued this letter of “guidance.” I sometimes wonder whether Obama is trying to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s chances of getting elected. Because I think that this “decree” is the sort of … Continue reading →
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, the 19th Century English novelist who lived for years with the married critic George Henry Lewes and wrote seven novels, including the highly-praised Middlemarch. I’ve never read it. In fact, … Continue reading →
Democratic bigwig and former US senator Harris Wofford, 90, is engaged to be married for the second time. To a man. A man who is 50 years younger than Wofford. It’s that last part that’s probably the shock to most … Continue reading →
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert has received a fifteen-month prison sentence for the bank withdrawal charges involving the payment of hush money to one of his sexual abuse victims (which I had discussed previously here). They can’t get him on … Continue reading →
It isn’t so often that you get two singer-songwriters who marry and then divorce, and who both write songs about it. Two offerings in this genre are from Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, who were married for a few … Continue reading →
Why has one story gotten a lot of coverage and the other story very little? I guess not all National Enquirer gossip is created equal. I suggest it all be ignored until proven true. But I doubt most people will … Continue reading →
As time has gone on, Trump has become more and more unpopular with women voters, and that includes Republican women: This month, about half (47 percent) of Republican female primary voters said they could not imagine themselves voting for Trump. … Continue reading →
Photographer Sally Mann wrote a lengthy article in which she justifies, explains, expounds, and defends some controversial photos she took of her own children. She asserts that, since her children had the final say over every photo and whether it … Continue reading →
And demographically speaking, 123 men to 100 women (as is now estimated to be the case in Sweden) is not usually a good thing, as China has already discovered : Under each of these scenarios, large numbers of young men … Continue reading →
Now that I’ve caught your attention– The title of this NY Magazine article: “No Pill? No Prob. Meet the Pullout Generation” certainly caught mine. Reading it was one of the most bizarre experiences I’ve had in a long time. The … Continue reading →
The NY Post editorial board wonders: Gen. John Kelly, USMC, is retiring after more than four decades as an active-duty Marine. His “greatest fear,” he says, is that the vast “equal opportunity” pressure for women in combat roles will lead … Continue reading →