…[drum roll please]: dancers and choreographers. At first this puzzled me. But then I realized that (duh!), although the photo is of ballet dancers, exotic/erotic dancers fall into this category, too. Which would explain a lot.
Continue reading →The NY Times interviews some couples who find themselves in mixed marriages of the political variety. Note that, in the marriages described in the article, it’s the woman who’s the liberal and the man who’s the conservative. This ties in … Continue reading →
Now if that’s not a provocative title, I don’t know what is. At issue: a tape of O’Donnell from 1996 that opponents dredged up and which was then aired by Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC show. It features O’Donnell speaking … Continue reading →
In an effort to boost my traffic, I am writing about breasts today. Small breasts. But breasts nonetheless As did the NY Times recently, in a piece about a new trend: lingerie stores that cater to and celebrate the less-endowed … Continue reading →
…you might do well to start up a conversation about philosophy or English lit or even astrophysics with your new ladyfriend, because she just might be a college grad who went into the business after having trouble making ends meet … Continue reading →
…and she divulges that: …[She] was as surprised as most of the rest of the world that the persona Woods put forth ”“ dedicated competitor, family man ”“ was a carefully constructed sham. “I’m so embarassed that I never suspected … Continue reading →
In the course of this article describing a research study on marriage, fidelity, wages, and divorce, Tracy Corrigan makes the following observation: Munsch found that during a six-year period, an average of 3.8 per cent of male partners and 1.4 … Continue reading →
Ed Whelan has written another article in National Review examining Judge Walker’s behavior in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger trial. No one else in the press seems to be looking closely at what actually happened, how Walker ruled, and the ways … Continue reading →
It’s pretty strong: Walker’s course of conduct would be sufficient cause for national scandal in any case. That it comes in a case that aims to radically remake the central social institution of American society makes it utterly intolerable. I … Continue reading →
I’d like to tackle this question raised by a commenter at the law blog Volokh: …[H]ow is opposing legalization of same-sex marriage today different from opposing the legalization of interracial marriage back [in the 1960s in the Loving vs Virginia … Continue reading →
Some years ago, Stanley Kurtz wrote a series of articles on the subject of what effect the legalization of same-sex marriage might have on the institution of marriage itself. They make for sobering reading, although (like almost all other social … Continue reading →
It probably did not escape your notice that Chelsea Clinton got married this past weekend. The bride and groom and her parents seemed happy. I’m all for that. And I really don’t care how much they spent on the wedding, … Continue reading →