What a sad milestone: After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to unmarried women has crossed a threshold: more than half of births to American women under 30 occur outside marriage…The fastest growth in the last … Continue reading →
Rick Santorum’s surge doesn’t puzzle me. It’s his turn at being the non-Romney frontrunner. By saying that I don’t mean to put him down, but it’s hard to avoid the pattern that’s been emerging: Romney is the supposed “annointed one” … Continue reading →
What hath progress wrought? Free to be you and me. I’m old enough to remember the rigid boundaries that these movements were supposed to be correcting, and I’m glad the worst of them have been removed. But it’s been an … Continue reading →
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld, by a vote of 2-1, a judge’s lower court ruling that California’s “Proposition 8 ”” a response to an earlier state court decision that legalized gay marriage ”” was a violation … Continue reading →
…writes
Continue reading →…appear to have a good deal more sense than their mom and dad. Gives you some faith in the next generation, doesn’t it?
Continue reading →I’ve got an article up today at PJ with some background on the old (actually, not all that old) “women and children first” rule in maritime disasters. Please click on the link and read the article first, and then come … Continue reading →
…the statute of limitations on affairs never runs out.
Continue reading →…and lost, and… A great story-song from the late Harry Chapin:
Continue reading →After Christopher Hitchens’ death I went back and re-read a couple of his old essays, including this one on women and humor (or their lack thereof). It’s written in his trademark style: witty, self-assured, and breezy; the musings of a … Continue reading →
…aren’t being rewarded for being men: If women have adapted well to the new economy, the same cannot be said for many men. Why not? It easy to paint the rise of working women as the reason why working men … Continue reading →
…(drum roll please)…. Jennifer Aniston??? Are you kidding? Please look at the woman on the left, and then compare her to the two others: Aniston and Spears don’t even look like women, they look like girls. And although they’re attractive … Continue reading →