Women, if you’re going to church to try to find yourself a good man, you can pray to Jesus all you like, but your chances aren’t very good. In every denomination of Christianity in the United States, women strongly outnumber the men. If you’re looking for husband material, try the ...

It appears that prostitutes are suffering from the economic recession along with everyone else, with a reduction in their wages. I found the following advertisement on Facebook: A prostitute for just 50 to 100 dollars per hour? I assumed that the rate would be a little bit higher than that. But real...

Some of us, like dear Peregrin, are outraged at the whopping 15 billion dollar bailout that the big Detroit manufacturers of bad cars are getting. I call it whopping because, well, that’s what it does. It whops you. This bailout comes along and whops you right on the side of your head - no use...

We all know how hard it is for child stars. They grow up learning that they can’t trust anyone - not even their parents. Just think back through all the stories you’ve read about child stars suing their own parents for cheating them out of the money they’ve earned. It’s been ...

This morning, I was abducted from my usual round of reading by the discovery of an odd little article entitled, Why “The Greys” are here and what they want with us. The greys, we are to understand, are a kind of space alien that has visited planet Earth and taken people on board their fl...

Indiana Republican Mike Pence can only work so hard as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. When the FISA Amendments Act was pushed through Congress so fast and hard that hardly anyone even had a chance to even read it before voting on it, for example, Mike Pence could not summon the energ...

National Men’s Health Week was last week - June 9-15. Damn it, I found out about it yesterday - one day too late. It makes me so angry at myself that I didn’t find out about Men’s Health Week until too late. That’s not healthy, being angry at yourself. See what kind of troubl...

I saw the headline on CBS News this evening: Teens’ Nude Pics “Spread Like Wildfire”. Just then, though, my Internet connection went out, so I had to consult some old-fashioned references, a dictionary and an encyclopedia, some old science textbooks, to see what that might mean. I&...

Think that fundamentalist Muslims are weird to get upset about a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper? That’s nothing compared to the outrage among fundamentalist Christians here in the United States: They’re saying that Barack Obama cannot be allowed to become President...

You think that the 2008 presidential candidates have wacky preachers? Let’s go back to the first generations of early Christianity. In the letter of Paul to the Galatians Chapter 3, verse 28, I find: “There is neither Jew nor Greek. There is neither slave nor free. There is neither male ...