Let me start out by saying that I bought into part of the women’s lib movement when I was much younger and much more impressionable. I’m not an activist at heart so I never burned my bra. Instead, I was a loyal subscriber to Ms. and New Woman magazines, thought the centerfold of Burt Reynolds […]
You may recall the early Charles Atlas advertisements. The typical scenario presented a skinny young man (usually accompanied by a female companion) being threatened by a bully. The bully pushes down the “97-pound weakling” and the girlfriend joins in the derision. This embarrassment makes the young man go home and order the Atlas book on […]
Over the weekend, I said to my husband, “what if I run out of things to write about that ‘I don’t get,’” to which he responded, “you’re kidding, right?” Well, first thing on Monday morning, I went to my computer, as I always do, and saw the article that the Swiss government has rejected the […]
A couple of weeks ago, I published an article about the media circus surrounding the anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death. Several readers responded to that article and wrote about heroes, both past and present, and that got me thinking. On the same day Michael Jackson died, First Lt. Brian Bradshaw was killed in Kheyl, Afghanistan. […]
Recently, I’ve been seeing headlines on my web page regarding the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) and its activities. It seems like there was a whole lot going on with sex and drugs so I figured I’d check it out because it all sounded far more interesting than Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings. The NIH is […]
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