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After the news of a ‘Not Guilty’ verdict in the Casey Anthony case, we’ve been listening to the strong, steady drumbeat of what HuffPost writer Thane Rosenbaum calls “an angry Greek chorus” against the verdict, and even against the justice system itself. There is a disconnect between the people and ...

Many people tell me that America’s laws are based on God’s laws in the bible. It happens often enough that I’ve developed a little game that I play with them. When they tell me America’s government is based on the bible, I take two pieces of paper and write on ...

Keywords: sex, sexuality, human sexuality, university, education sex ed, sexual education) Northwestern University came under fire this week after a demonstration held by a biology professor which involved the dissection of real live frogs. Around 100 students stayed for the optional session after being given an opportunity to leave. The ...

John- I strongly disagree with you about Assange please warn your audience when you are going to talk about him because when i hear you praise him I get Pissed off at you and change the station (twice this week) I wonder if you would feel the same if some ...

Miley Cyrus is not a child anymore. She is 18 years old and experimenting with adulthood. Her act is becoming more sexually aware, shocking the mothers who forgot what sex is. But that was mild compared to the recent video clip showing her taking a hit of Salvia divinorum, a ...

Melissa and I have a son called Tyler who’s about to turn 8 years old. I’d like to tell you that everything about our decision to have a child in 2003 and then not to have another (at least by this time of writing) was the result of well-considered intention, ...

Three U.S. rules that don’t make sense As a person from the United Kingdom living in the United States, I immediately noticed customs here that I preferred: petrol pumps that can continue to fill without you holding the handle. Turning lanes. ‘Right on red.’ Drive-through ATMs. These are things I ...

Some people say the hipster is dead. Long live the fauxhemian! (Someone who conforms “to a safe, middle class lifestyle but with the superficial pretense of an alternative or Bohemian lifestyle”, according to the Urban Dictionary). And just when I was trying to work out whether I am one or ...

Conservatives wish, by definition, to conserve the status quo, right? So, even when the status quo makes no sense, such as America’s prohibition of marijuana, they’ll seek to conserve it. Tomorrow, marijuana is a factor in voting in the two US states where I spend the most time; Arizona and ...

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 ...