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Monthly Archives: March 2010

How Do Men Concentrate?

  ELIZABETH WRIGHT WRITES: Laura wrote in the previous entry on women’s fashions: “Most women feel the gaze of others on their exposed cleavage. It’s distracting. I don’t know how these women on television concentrate.” How the women concentrate? I don’t know how the men concentrate. I’ve watched as a woman being interviewed by a [...]

A Man and Woman Dancing

                    ALEX A. from England writes: Here’s an item concerning a traditional interpretation of dancing that might interest you. My source is The Book of the Governor, a sixteenth century guidebook to the acquisition of social graces. It was written by Sir Thomas Elyot and first [...]

A Miscellany on Goats, News Anxiety Disorder, and How Colleges Destroy Happiness

  HERE, IN a miscellaneous entry, are questions from readers from the last few days. Lisa writes: As my daughter and I were in the goat barn for many hours this past few days after nearly all our milking does “decided” to have their kids all at once, I looked around in amused amazement at all these gals’ [...]

Power Tresses

  KIDIST PAULOS ASRAT, here and here, writes about the long and often tousled hairstyles of female anchorwomen and Ann Coulter. She speculates that this loose, unrestrained bedroom look on women in power is an effort to recapture lost femininity. The more manly women become, the more they feel the need to flaunt their sexuality.

James Kalb

  IF YOU have never visited James Kalb’s website Turnabout, I highly recommend it, especially his Anti-Feminist Page. Kalb is the author of The Tyranny of Liberalism, a thoughtful and absorbing book on the soft oppression of “equality by command.” I will never forget visiting Kalb’s extended essay on feminism at Turnabout years ago and feeling as if clouds had dispersed after [...]

A Food Revolution for Schoolchildren?

    HANNON WRITES: Have you watched ABC’s “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution”? I watched two episodes tonight. Aside from the nutritional insights that many Americans need to have brought to their attention it is also a compelling, and chilling, snapshot of a “government program.” The setting is Huntington, West Virginia.

The Mal-distribution of Common Sense

  “Too often, much of late, the last couple three years, the mal-distribution of income in American is gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy and the middle income class is left behind. Wages have not kept up with increased income of the highest income in America. This legislation [...]

Postmillennial Spinsters, Lesbianism and Obamacare

  THE BEGINNINGS OF socialized medicine in America can be traced to the Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Protection Act of 1921, which set up child welfare bureaus around the country. Messianic activism by wealthy spinsters and lesbians led to the bill’s passage against considerable opposition. Today’s liberals and proponents of Obamacare are heirs to this wave of genteel progressivism. Such is the [...]

Ecce Rex Tuus

  GO YE into the village that is over against you and immediately you shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them and bring them to Me; and if any man shall say anything to you, say ye that the Lord hath need of them; and forthwith he will let them go.   [...]

Why Working Mothers Hurt American Business

  A READER WRITES: I just had to write in as I really was appalled at the misinformation contained in the post from the ‘childless female manager.’ I am a 30-year-old male manager working at a large multi-national corporation and now have the joys of working with a large number of ‘working mothers.’ They are [...]

The Amish and Health Care

     THE AMISH are exempt from the new health care regulations. They also are not required to pay Social Security or Medicare taxes. It is no surprise that most of America is now enslaved to government while the Amish are free. Look at the happy man and woman in this picture. This is patriarchy. No, [...]

Do Women Say They’re Sorry?

  WELMAR writes at The Spearhead: Both men and women do terrible things to each other. They betray, abandon, neglect and abuse. Honestly, I don’t think either sex beats the other when it comes to treating spouses like garbage. However, when men do something horrible, they are usually contrite. Often, they take the blame. In [...]

Comments on the Mommy Bomb

  A PREVIOUS POST mentioned the case of  a former vice president at Goldman Sachs. The woman, who was fired during her second maternity leave, has sued her employer for sex discrimination. She claims she was penalized and relegated to “second-class status” at her workplace because she was a mother. Maggie Fox writes: I am a childless female [...]

Mandatory Salad for Everyone

  MICHELLE OBAMA is campaigning for better dietary habits for America’s children, a seemingly virtuous and uncontroversial undertaking if there ever was one. But it is really one more instance of overweening paternalism. She recently lectured the Grocery Manufacturers Association: “We need you not just to tweak around the edges, but to entirely rethink the products [...]

They Don’t Have Enough to Read

  Cutbacks in government spending on libraries and after-school programs are to blame for the flash mobs of black teenagers converging on the streets of Philadelphia in predominantly white business districts, according to the director of a major youth advocacy group, Shelly Yanoff, of Public Citizens for Children and Youth, said spending reductions have led to this youthful restlessness, which includes [...]