Phyllis Schlafly has made the news with the following remarks, which have earned that common appellation, “controversial:” Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly took aim at “unmarried women” at a recent fundraiser and in an interview with TPM, saying that they overwhelmingly … Continue reading →
Readers of this blog may have noticed I haven’t given a lot of space to the soap opera trials and tribulations of the Palin family. But it’s hard to ignore the news that daughter Bristol and her erstwhile swain Levi … Continue reading →
Now that Al and Tipper have split, the inevitable rumor of an affair is going round. But the most interesting thing to me is not the possibility of Al’s cheating. I’ve learned that a person who ends a long-term marriage … Continue reading →
…and there’s sorrow and consternation in the land. Seriously, there is. And in order to feel sad about it, it’s not even necessary to be a Democrat, or to like Tipper and Al Gore. It’s almost always upsetting and even … Continue reading →
It’s all tré¨s Frané§ais. The marriage of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and First Lady Carla Bruni appears to have succumbed to simultaneous affairs, he with Junior Minister for Ecology Chantal Jouanno and she with singer Benjamin Biolay. I say, if … Continue reading →
…but the question is, why? I don’t completely understand this need of the wronged spouse to publicly unburden herself (and it’s usually a “her”), either through writing a book or granting interviews, or often both—the latter to promote the former. … Continue reading →
Several people have asked me in the comments section of this post to explain the following statement of mine: It’s almost incomprehensible that Obama would cheat on his wife; he’s too controlled, for one thing. I admit that the explanation … Continue reading →
Mark Sanford is the latest politician confessing to cheating on his wife. You might say it goes with the territory. Politicians tend to be egotistical and aggressive. They also encounter a great deal of opportunity to stray; as Henry Kissinger … Continue reading →
Researchers have found that women can smell men—especially their underarm odor—better than men can smell women. It’s not that men’s odor is necessarily worse. It’s that women are more sensitive to this particular smell. When researchers tried to mask each … Continue reading →
The NY Times reports on researchers’ attempts to discover the chemical mediators of that complex emotion we call love. Some of this research has been done with prairie voles, who seem to share humans’ ability to be monogamous—although I doubt … Continue reading →
Do you? I don’t. Care, that is. Lest you misunderstand, I will say that I think what Edwards did was wrong and I condemn it. But, as with the infidelities of myriad other politicians, I can’t get very worked up … Continue reading →
In my continuing quest to lighten up and at least slightly de-Obamafy this page, I’m weighing in on the pressing question posed by this Time Online piece: does breast augmentation lead to—or is it a sign of—impending divorce? Since I’m … Continue reading →