Author: Curmudgette

The Dumbening

Just when you thought it was safe to be an American again… You know I almost didn’t write this entry; being as it is a rumination on the decline of American civilization. I’ve been so heady since the election....

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Of Jocks and Rape

I have stayed out of the Duke Lacrosse rape story. I have no capacity for journalistic dispassion on this issue for reasons that should become clear as of this writing. My associate the Blogging Curmudgeon emailed me this CNN...

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Caitlin’s Hellish Crusade

So many times I have opined like Morticia in “Adams Family Values”: I’m just like every modern woman trying to have it all. A loving husband, a family. I only wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces...

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In Other Words, Soj, You’re a Fraud

Soj, you are a character! I mean that literally. It seems that your identity and the particulars of your life and career came under a bit of scrutiny on both the Daily Kos and Booman Tribune. As if that weren’t bad enough,...

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Date Rapists Givin’ You Trouble?

Just give ’em a hummer. Thus spake Sharon Stone. Young people talk to me about what to do if they’re being pressed for sex. I tell them (what I believe): Oral sex is a hundred times safer than vaginal or anal sex....

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