July 18th, 2009
Thanks to my wife, Catherine, for this one. It’s time for the family vacation, so we’re off to the land of maple syrup, favorable currency conversions, and Cuban cigars.
After being married for 35 years, I took a careful look at my wife and said, “Thirty-five years ago we had a cheap apartment, a cheap car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black and white TV. But I got to sleep every night with a hot 21 year old girl.”
“Now I’ve got a home valued at $750,000, a $40,000 car, nice king-size bed and two plasma screen TVs. But I’m sleeping with a 56-year old woman. It seems to me that you’re not holding up your side of things.”
My wife is a reasonable woman. She told me to go out and find a hot 21-year old girl and she would make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap apartment, driving a cheap car, sleeping on a sofa bed and watching a 10-inch black and white TV.
Aren’t older women great? They really know how to solve your mid-life crisis.
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July 18th, 2009
No matter what side of the political spectrum you’re on, I don’t see how the treatment of Judge Sonia Sotomayor can’t bug you, at least a little. Here is a woman who has spent 17 years on the bench – many more than any of the current Supreme Court justices – and yet she is being treated like some rank novice, questioned about why some lawyers who faced her have complained about her tough questioning and calling it a “lack of judicial temperament.”
Does anyone else see some barely veiled misogyny here? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: bias, Equal pay, justice, supreme court
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July 11th, 2009
The hoopla surrounding the death of Michael Jackson overwhelmed a number of other stories that raise the issue of how love and commitment is defined in today’s world. There were the revelations of Nevada Senator John Ensign’s affair with a campaign aide, and his alleged violation of state and federal laws by placing the woman, her husband and their son on his Senate payroll while the affair was in full swing. Next came South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s affair with a woman in Argentina, his extraordinary press conference, the publishing of personal and intimate letters between the two, and revelations of other affairs that have put Sanford (like Ensign, an early favorite for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination) out on a ledge. Now we have the strange case of Steve McNair, the former professional football player, who was shot by his 20-year old lover in what police are calling a murder-suicide.
Setting aside the political impact of Ensign’s and Sanford’s behavior, and the damage to McNair’s image as a football “hero,” one has to ask: Why would these successful men, who have lived their lives in the public eye and worked hard to cultivate a positive image, act so recklessly? Read the rest of this entry »
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July 7th, 2009
How often has this happened to you? Your phone rings at 11 PM, 3 AM or 6 AM (whatever constitutes the middle of the night for you) and it’s your friend, in the middle of a crisis. No, not an emergency, like a car accident – – a crisis, like her boyfriend just broke up with her. Or maybe she just realized he’s probably been cheating on her. And she wants your advice.
Not.
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Tags: abusive relationships, Advice, cheaters, friends, insanity, men, Relationships
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June 24th, 2009
I’m at the stage in my life where I’m pretty comfortable with who I am – unlike in my 20’s when a night out involved serious planning for wardrobe, makeup, hair and attitude. Now, while I put thought into those things, they aren’t something for me to obsess over any more.
I’ll never forget when I was planning a trip in my 20s to Club Med with my friend, Maggie. All I kept thinking about in the weeks leading up to it was would I look good enough compared to the other women? did I have the perfect hair style? did I have enough incredibly cute beach cover ups? would I come across as “cool” enough?
Jeez! I spent so much time worrying about stupid stuff like that that I’m amazed I actually enjoyed myself.
But, here is my dilemma. I don’t want to spend the time and effort I did back then. . . .but, now I need to pay more attention to how I look because I don’t have the perfect 36-24-36 body I had then – nor that gorgeous, poreless skin. I can’t just grab anything out of my closet and know it will look great; I can’t just wash my face and run, either, if you know what I mean. Grrrrrrrr!
So what do I – we – do now?
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