It’s been sixty years since Alfred Kinsey’s groundbreaking reports, separate ones on male and female sexuality, opened the lid on the hidden sexual lives of Americans. It caused discomfort in many circles, but allowed for discussions that were off-limits in social circles, and probably even academic circles.
This is for Libertine and the others who have admitted how sad they are; and for those who haven't, but are, as well... She walked out onto the porch. For three days now, the sky had been every possible shade...
So much of our conventional wisdom maintains that our morals have been formed by Christian-Judeo principles (peace to the American devotees of other religions). Atheist Sam Harris blogged about his new book at Huffpo last week, in which he claims...
If you don't care for personal blogs, Universal Theme blogs, strictly non-political blogs, be warned: this one ain't for you. If you've never faced the Dark Night of the Soul, either for yourself or for humanity, or your brothers and...
You all know how it is that when we work hard for something, or save hard for something, we appreciate it ever so much more? That's how it is for me and my garden... My garden's a wee thing...
Ruta's yesterday-blog was one of his best, IMO. He called it Sand, and featured a photo of a sign on a road in the middle of a desert of sand. If I can paraphrase, he said its impact was such that it...
We've become accustomed to the Ratchet Effect in American politics, the idea that our politics keep moving to the Right. (Thanks, Ellen.) Loosely speaking, some other Ratchet Effects are occurring. One huge one concerns the migration of wealth upward; recent...
My songs are missing, and I don't know where to find them. For so long they were just there; I took them for granted. I feel as though I should, or at least want to apologize to them; and...
On August 2, 2010, Israel yielded to calls from the US and the International community to participate in an independent investigation of the May 31 attack on the Mavi Marmara in which in which Israeli commandos killed nine Turkish pro-Palestinian...
(Yuri Cortez/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images...American and Afghan soldiers on a joint patrol last week in Kandahar Province. Military officials say the counterinsurgency strategy needs time to work.) The Obama White House is getting a wee bit nervous that...
Based on an article by this name by William Greider, The Nation (published at Alternet by this blog title) Most of us at the Café are Warren fans; she minds The People's business in a most spectacular fashion. What...
Don't they look Happy ? I forget what we may have been invited to focus on around July 20, 2010. But it apparently wasn't the International Donor Conference on Afghanistan in Kabul that week. Hillary Clinton and Ban Ki-Moon...
9th Circuit District Court Judge Vaughn Walker offered a 136-page decision in the case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger, firmly rejecting the Prop 8 law passed in November 2008. UPDATE: Here's Judge Walker's conclusion: Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational...
Under a law passed in 1986, 5 grams of crack would trigger a five-year prison sentence, but the same sentence would only be triggered by 500 grams of powder cocaine. The disparity, of course, meant that more minorities went to...
