Shot In The Dark

In All My Years...

...of being a born-again single, I don't think I ever came across quite like this. Prize quote:Can someone prepare for me some sort of chart or graph containing the following information: For every day of the week and for every...

Manly Men

Forget terrorism, socialism, wahhabism, totalitarianism...hell, forget all the -isms. Nope. According to Ruth Marcus of the WaPo, it's men who are the problem:I have a new theory about what's behind everything that's wrong with the Bush administration: manliness.Well - i'ts...

Is Doctor Neil Clark Warren In The House?

Kristine Holmgren latest screed in the Strib ("Beware words of love in a land of deception") could be viewed as more of the same vacuous, leftycoddly twaddle that she usually writes. It could also be viewed as a cry for...

Crying Wolf

It was about ten years ago that I went through "sexual harassment training" for the first time. The basic rule: If someone thought they were being harassed, they were being harassed. Which is one thing. The corollary, of course, was...

The Glass Floor

John Tierney on the next wave of fallout from our educational dysfunction: an epidemic of spinsters:When there are three women for every two men graduating from college, whom will the third woman marry?It's not a joke, actually - marriages between...

Obsession Therapy

Back at a radio job in the late eighties/early nineties, I worked with a guy who was obsessed - I use that term in all its full psychological glory - with Debbie Gibson. The guy - let's call him "Tom"...

Casablanca As Chick Flick

In yesterday's piece on the anniversary of the movie Casablanca, commenter "Angryclown" wrote to claim that the movie was actually a "chick flick". He's wrong - hardly unusual (Mr. Clown is a committed blue-stater, a lawyer and a member of...

Bride of Christ, Bride of Industry

Joe Carter is one of my favorite "Godbloggers" (a term I'm both uncomfortable with and would, were I one, shy away from, but they called their confab the "Godblogcon"; when writing about Rome, write as the Romans do...). He's been...

Don't Quit Your Day Job

"Ruby" - the Pioneer Press' breathtakingly-shallow dating blogger - is hanging it up after a couple of years:This Part 61 is the last of the "Single in the Cities" episodes. It makes me a little sad to know I won't...

Notable By Its Absence

The Strib wrote a piece about domestic violence today. In and amid its usual demands to have the issue treated as a public heath matter, there was one thing unstated that was shocking almost to the point of epochal. Read...

Does This Occur In Nature?

Jess from Blind Cavefish relates, approvingly, an experience with a guy who went to great lengths to get her phone number:He'd looked me up in the yearbook and checked out what bus I got off of one morning. He then...

The Emperor

A BBC anchor editorializes about the state of men in society. I'm not sure what's more interesting - his actual observations, or the reactions they've gotten....

Warm Up Those Credit Cards

A group of British applied mathematicians have reduced at least one part of dating to a mathematical model...A team of applied mathematicians created a sequential calculation as a model of dating. The new study, designed to explore the role of...

Scratch A Myth

One problem with big cities is that a lot of really screwed-up people congregate in them. Lorika from Secret Farm (a blogger with whom I've almost never agreed) had an ugly, sobering encounter with one of them last week. I'll...

Father's Day

Father's Day has always been a very ambiguous thing for me. On the one hand, our society devalues fatherhood to an extent that in a hundred years will look barbaric and moronic, assuming mankind becomes more enlightened before then. Fatherhood...

Good Advice For Everyone

Rocket Man advises:So if you find yourself all alone in a railway station with a guy who has a really, really long ring finger, run.Well, duh....

So There's Hope?

Since my former guilty pleasures Red and Michelle just aren't that guilty anymore (sorry, Red), I've needed to replenish the stockpile. Perhaps Jess fills the bill?...

Republican Guys 'n Democrat Dolls

I've observed in the past the difficulties in dating across party lines, from the perspective of a guy. Elle Parker does the same for women in DC. And the revelations are utterly predictable interesting....

Priorities

While Jay Reding was busy live-blogging the South Dakota election, Rocket Man took one for the team and live-blogged the Miss Universe Pageant. The winner? Ms. Oz. I thought Miss Bulgaria had it going on......

Observations On Women - I've

Observations On Women - I've been single again for going on four years, now. I've been on at least one date with several dozen women in that time. And while you might cry "Jaundice", you do so only at the...

Blogless and Desperate! - What

Blogless and Desperate! - What do you get when you combine two hot trends? In the case of blogs (hot trend!) and urban singles (hot trend!), you get dateblogs (Not a trend). Both of the Twin Cities' major dailies are...

A Guy Thing...

I have a son. He, along with my daughter, is the center of my life. How much the center are they? Well, y'know how Lileks goes on and on about Gnat? Well, picture that, only for a total of 22...

Let Slip the Blogs of Love

Let Slip the Blogs of Love - - Instapundit notes the first known blog-induced marriage, and a number of dates that have started in the blogosphere. I can contribute the dark side of the story, naturally. A while ago, a...

TV Romance

I've been single - again - for just about four years now. I've gone out with a woman or two - or 68 - in that time. And as a result, I think I know what's wrong with this...

I'd Get Mad - But I'm Too Tired

I tackled a particularly, myopically sexist New Republic writer with a very Barbara Billingsley-ish outlook on things. One of my most satisfying Instalanches.

It's a Man's, Man's, Man's Responsibility

Wendy McElroy on the brewing-up of a gender war whose flames I've been fanning myself for a long time - the matching of reproductive rights and reproductive responsibilities.According to PC feminism, the woman alone has the right of choice in...

Faint Praise

The Economist takes on, in impeccable British style, Gen-Y anti-capitalist, crypto-Green anti-globalization gadfly/sex symbol Naomi Klein:Ms Klein, by her own account, was a late developer as a social revolutionary. Growing up in a family of activists and campaigners, her...

Discrimination, Cradle to Grave

Glenn Sacks writes about gender issues from the male perspective. I bring it up because one of my major issues is discrimination against boys, from elementary school through college. I have a nine-year-old boy myself - the living embodiment...

Why Males Don't Go to College

Fascinating article on how modern universities have become what feminists would call "hostile zones" to male students. Early in the semester Ms. Smith informed the class that all folklore was widely believed to be a code of misogyny that was...