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Yeah, I’m not done with this subject yet, and I must apologize to those of you for whom the conversation has moved on. But since being accused of sexism in recent discussions on these issues, and finding myself in the regular company of women who don’t regard my feelings as ...

Jean Kilbourne is a feminist author and speaker at college campuses, particularly on the issue of women in advertising. In August 2009 I reacted to a video of one of Kilbourne’s lectures with a critical response, and although it’s been one of my widest-read articles (presumably because students are researching ...

That’s right; we’re all objects with different purposes for each others’ use. In the recent debate on wolf-whistling, some commentators asserted the objectification of women; that, by vocalizing the male tendency to ‘reduce’ a woman to her body in sexually-prompted thought, we are ‘turning her’ into a sex object. This ...

As part of the convo on wolf-whistling which continues here, and in response to some comments directed at me ‘as a man’ (rather than simply as a commenter on whether wolf-whistling is sexist and/or harassment), I asked my wife Melissa to give her opinion as we sat working on our separate ...

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One of the last ‘blue laws’ in Arizona has been repealed, making this Sunday the first during which someone in the state may buy alcoholic drinks before ten in the morning. A ‘blue law’ is a law designed to enforce moral standards. Typically blue laws involve what people may do ...

Ted Haggard is back. You remember him, right? The former influential evangelical church leader who was discovered to have a gay-sex-with-male-prostitute-and-possible-love-for-methamphetamine habit on the side and is today insisting he’s entirely heterosexual? I’ve written him an open letter. *Clears throat.* ———————————– Dear Ted, online personal cash loans You’re gay, dude. ...

I’ve just spent 30 minutes on-air discussing with my boss the game called ‘football’ by approximately 96 percent of the world and ‘soccer’ by the remaining 4 percent, most of whom live in the United States of America. He thinks the game is boring, that there’s not enough scoring, and there’s ...

We’re all very well aware, by this stage, what an environmental catastrophe the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has turned out to be. But what continues to amaze me is the blame game being played out across the media every day, spun by people who are ideologically ...

Here are some good resources for those who want to read more about the growing sector of Christianity that supports and welcomes the gay community. (1) A letter by the influential UK evangelical leader Roy Clements to a young man called Michael, who wrote him concerned with his endorsement of ...

Lest I fall into the trap of thinking that big political problems have simple solutions, I’ll say this carefully. We’ve created a brouhaha in Arizona by opting to enforce federal immigration laws at the state level. It’s estimated that non-effective enforcement of those laws by the U.S. Government, including a ...

David Arquette – actor, director, producer, screenwriter, husband of actress Courtney Cox – won the lottery last week by being given the rarely-offered opportunity to sit in on the world’s best radio program with the 60-plus-strong cast and crew of The Howard Stern Show. He wrote a letter of thanks ...

“How now brown cow.” There. I said it. I said it here, and I said it on my radio show yesterday afternoon. Nobody called the show in response to my uttering ‘How now brown cow’. Nobody told me I shouldn’t have said it, or expressed shock or anger about it. ...

In a world where earthquakes rumble and volcanoes erupt, where humans seek to explain ‘Bad’ in meaningful ways, for whom logic still competes with emotion, it isn’t surprising that dots are sometimes connected using God as an explanation. Will Crawley wonders if it’s only a matter of time before people ...

Are the calories consumed in restaurants beloved of liberals any healthier than the calories consumed in the multinational outlets they despise? You’d think so, listening to Mark Morford. Dear Mr. Morford, I’ll begin by agreeing with you that the KFC Double Down sandwich, composed of two pieces of fried chicken, ...

A few hundred years ago, a little movement called the Enlightenment caused us to take a very useful step in the name of human progress; that was the development of and reliance upon the scientific method. Reliance upon reason and evidence, and skepticism about everything else. I say ‘useful’ because, ...