What Every Man Should Know: Relationships Are Like The Stock Market

Relationships are like the stock market. The bigger the risk, the bigger the reward; and the more a man’s got invested, the more he stands to win or lose.

As a relationship between a man and a woman grows, and the bonds become ever-tighter, the inner light that comes from a successful, happy relationship shines [...]

Girls Gone Mild: Teen Girls and Sexual Modesty

By Mona Charen . . .
This article discusses how American popular culture has destroyed any connection between women and innocence.
“American popular culture seems determined to obliterate innocence — even in the crib! But Shalit’s critique is not so much prudish as pitying. Her deepest insights concern the new repression that has been imposed on young [...]

Diabetes Drug OK. May Cause Cancer Though

The widely used diabetes drug Avandia should remain on the market, government health advisers overwhelmingly recommended yesterday, saying that evidence of an increased risk of heart attack doesn’t merit its removal.
The panel voted 22-1 on the nonbinding recommendation to the Food and Drug Administration.
Glaxo , the corporate drug pusher, says its data does [...]

8 Americans Graduate From Cuban Medical School

“Eight Americans who graduated from a Cuban medical school say they will put the education paid for by Fidel Castro’s communist government to use in hospitals back home.
“Four New Yorkers, three Californians and a Minnesotan, all from minority backgrounds, have studied in Havana since April 2001, forming the first class of American graduates from the [...]

Vick’s Homies Sellout

“One of the co-defendants in the Michael Vick federal dogfighting case pleaded guilty on Monday and pledged to fully cooperate with prosecutors.

Tony Taylor, 34, of Hampton, Virginia, entered the guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Richmond. He will be sentenced December 14.
Taylor, along with Vick and two other co-defendants, had pleaded not guilty [...]

Clinton v. Obama, Round I

So how’d they do, guys? Surely by now most of you have heard or read something about the verbal battle between the two Democratic contenders for President. It started after the Youtube debate where Both were asked if they would meet with rogue foreign leaders in their first year in office without precondition. [...]

Study predicts 75 percent overweight in US by 2015

Hat tip: Dina
“If people keep gaining weight at the current rate, fat will be the norm by 2015, with 75 percent of U.S. adults overweight and 41 percent obese, U.S. researchers predicted on Wednesday.A team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore examined 20 studies published in journals and looked at national surveys of weight and [...]

Florida Man Owes $10K For Child That Ain’t His!

Hat tip: On The Level

“Francisco Rodriguez owes more than $10,000 in back child support payments in a paternity case involving a 15-year-old girl who, according to DNA results and the girl’s mother, is not his daughter.

“Rodriguez, who is married with two daughters and a son from his wife’s previous marriage, is fighting for [...]

Friday Flashback

I remember when you could hear these guys, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Run DMC, Hall & Oates, Club Nouveau all on the same radio station. . . in Memphis. Perhaps that was the upside of the 80s.

Quote of the Day: Shakespeare’s "Hamlet"

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;

and thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought

And enterprises of great pitch and moment

With this reagard their currents turn awry

And lose the name of action.

–Hamlet, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act 3, scene 1