Well, guys, we might as well stop pretending; they're onto us:
Scientists studying the effects of pornography fell at the first hurdle - after failing to find a man who had not viewed X-rated material.
The researchers were comparing the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to pornography to regular users.
The other shoe has dropped, and Tiger Woods has given his "I take full responsbility for letting my family down" (I can't believe I got caught) speech. (I've heard about at least three mistresses; would that be a love pentagon instead of a love triangle?)
With all the important news today about Afghanistan and health care and Tiger Woods, here's a little story you might not have noticed:
PARIS - The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush has himself become the target of a shoe thrower.
While speaking at a press conference in Paris on Tuesday, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, was nearly hit in the face by a shoe thrown by what appeared to be another Iraqi man.
Even in today's "everybody wants to be famous just for being famous" culture, it's not sufficient to say White House crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi are reality-show wannabes desperate to get on TV.
I ask you, what more could be asked of a companion?
So, I guess a big, old French kiss is completely out of the question:
But the H1N1 outbreak, and the impending start of the seasonal flu, are testing the conventions of handshaking etiquette this fall in Maine.
In the business world, and during a gubernatorial race that seems to have half the state on the campaign trail, the custom is coming under scrutiny. Even Maine's Catholic churches are asking parishioners not to shake hands during the Sign of Peace or hold hands during the Our Father.
When I watched my aunt suffering with Alzheimer's, I thought that must be the worst condition to be in while still alive. To still know what and who you once were but feeling your mind slipping away and realizing you can't do a damn thing about it -- could anything be more horrible?
The good news is that there are apparently very few of us who hate everybody. Of the 7,783 hate crimes reported to the FBI in 2008, only 8 were for "multiple biases." The bad news is that the overall number represents a 2 percent increase from 2007. Of course there may not actually be more hate crimes, merely more emphasis on them and awareness of them. And sometimes, it can be difficult to say what exactly is a hate crime. If you burn a cross in somebody's yard, that's pretty obvious.
