Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’m on a mailing list that introduces potential book reviewers to newly published books. Today’s email was about “romances.” I quickly scanned the list of books to see whether any were worth requesting to read and review. None were, but this one caught my eye: Kink is not my cup
Continue readingDid any of you catch a story the other day claiming that a study of porn actresses showed that they’re happier and better adjusted than their non-porn peers? The report in the Journal of Sex Research found that porn stars are not more likely to have psychological problems than other
Continue readingI hadn’t yet posted about the Lena Dunham ad, which just seemed too stupid to acknowledge, which is why I’m not linking to it here. After all, I’d prefer not to sully my blog with videos that liken voting for Obama to losing ones virginity. Frankly, maybe because I’m a
Continue readingIt’s no big secret in the Bookworm Room that I like romance novels. Someone I know calls them pornography. He’s both right and wrong. A large percentage of today’s romance novels have pretty explicit sex scenes scattered through the pages. The language isn’t as vulgar as true pornography, but the
Continue readingIn today’s Marin IJ, there was a little squiblet asking people what they like about summer. One 24 year old man was blunt — women in their summer clothes, he said, are what makes summer good. By that he meant young women in almost no clothes. He’s certainly right about
Continue readingStockholm Syndrome: In psychology, Stockholm Syndrome is an apparently paradoxical psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially
Continue readingYesterday, I riffed on James Taranto’s post regarding whether the sexual revolution bell can be un-rung. I don’t think we can go back to the way things were before — time does, after all, run forward, not backwards — but I do think we are still in a position to
Continue readingJames Taranto says that the Left has ceased to be a revolutionary movement. Instead, it is a monolithic institution that spends its time trying to preserve the changes it has already wrought in society. The two big changes Taranto mentions are the New Deal of the 1930s and 1940s, and
Continue readingA fluke is a one time thing, a bizarre coming together of circumstances that cannot be relied upon to occur on a regular basis. We’ll hope that Sandra Fluke falls into this category, because she’s been a headache. (Although, I suspect, for many outside of New York, Los Angeles, and
Continue readingGloria Allred is demanding that Rush face criminal prosecution for calling Sandra Fluke a slut: In a letter dated March 8, Allred, writing on behalf of the Women’s Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund, requested that Palm Beach County State Attorney Michael McAuliffe probe whether the conservative radio personality
Continue readingHowever, this rationalization for infanticide, just published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, makes me wonder if Molock isn’t stirring anew in the ebb-tide of the Judeo-Christian West.
Continue readingThis is just the week for me to have sex on my mind. It’s not my fault, though, because the culture insists on pushing it into the forefront of my brain. Ours is a sex saturated culture. Progressives like it that way and want it to stay that way. Conservatives
Continue readingI’ve got sex on the mind today. (How’s that for a great opening sentence?) It actually has nothing to do with me, and everything to do with a confluence of posts and statements that came my way within the last couple of days. It all started when Erick Erickson put
Continue readingI’m a very literal person, which means that, for the most part, I like to spell things out, and have them spelled out to me. Certainly that’s been my approach when discussing boys and sex with my daughter. I haven’t danced around the fact that boys want sex. There’s nothing
Continue readingWe know two pivotal facts about Operation Fast & Furious, aka the Gunwalker scandal: The U.S. Justice Department arranged for thousands of American weapons to cross our Southern border, knowingly placed them in Mexican criminal hands, and sat back and watched while hundreds of Mexicans and some Americans (including border
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