May 17, 2008
The same people who excoriated Randi Rhodes for merely opining two prominent Democrats are political whores, have nothing to say about virtually the entire media calling innocent women hookers, even though the accused have neither confessed to nor been convicted of prostitution. Rather than condemning this real misogyny, many "progressives"...
Ellen Feldman | Posted April 7, 2008 | Politics
Nicholas Kristof's article on sexists vs. racists in Sunday's New York Times illuminates the guilt many women feel for not supporting Hillary Clinton. One friend recently stated that she did not see how any woman could not be for Clinton. Does that mean if I were a British subject, I...
Suzanne Portnoy | Posted April 4, 2008 | Living
Dear Suzanne,
My wife is off to our house in the country and I'd love to have some sexual fun to relieve the usual stress. All I want is casual sex with a like-minded individual. You, for instance...
Dear Suzanne
How does one meet you? I am married and...
Chris Weigant | Posted March 14, 2008 | Politics
As Robert Anton Wilson pointed out (or William S. Burroughs, if you prefer), hexagram 23 of the I Ching is "breaking apart." Anyone who subscribes to his "23 enigma" theory will note that this is the twenty-third installment of this column. If you throw hexagram 23, the I Ching...
Tom Alderman | Posted March 13, 2008 | Media
Thanks goodness for SpitzerFest. Yes, it's a tragedy on so many personal and societal levels -- but isn't it one of life's ironies that there are always folks who benefit from misfortune? Electronic news, like cable TV and the Internet, were certainly looking at a viewer slow-down with the Pennsylvania's...
Chris Weigant | Posted March 11, 2008 | Politics
We begin not with Eliot Spitzer, but with a small history lesson. From the Civil War, two otherwise unremarkable Union Generals (militarily, both are known for their spectacular defeats) who obviously detested each other: Ambrose Burnside and Joseph "Fighting Joe" Hooker. Here is Burnside on Hooker, who served under him:...
Blake Fleetwood | Posted March 11, 2008 | Politics
News Flash: A married man goes to a prostitute. What a hypocritical country we live in. The morals police are jumping for joy. The Puritans will come out of the woodwork.
Woe is Eliot Spitzer, his wife and three teenage daughters.
The press loves it. Sex will sell newspapers...
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Jeff Norman | Posted April 18, 2008 | Media