Vidi, vici, veni — I saw, I conquered, I came
Posted in Culture, Life, News, People, Social Issues, opinion on Dec 14th, 2009
I’ve not so far written about the Tiger Woods story because I viewed it as yet another story about a straying celebrity and that it would quickly become yesterday’s news. Reports such as these are now rather commonplace and are hardly worth reporting on, let alone commenting on. But this story outlived its fifteen minutes [...]
Reading the webpage of one of my local TV stations, I came upon a story about a man who had been arrested for bigamy. He’d married his first wife in 2005, and had married a second woman this past October. Neither wife had been the wiser until the first wife intercepted a text message for [...]
Posted in Culture, Life, Religion, Social Issues, history, opinion, sex on Jul 11th, 2009
With all the recent outings of politicians engaged in extramarital sex, my favorite liberal news site, Alternet, has been doing a flurry of articles relating to this subject. In a recent article, Relax: Adultery Is Not That Big Of a Deal by Samara O’Shea, she explores the idea: I’m not justifying infidelity. But it [...]
Posted in Culture, Life, Social Issues, opinion on Jul 4th, 2009
A recent article on Alternet, For Many, Marriage is Sexless, Boring, and Oppressive:Time to Rethink the Institution? by Amanda Marcotte, asks the question: Marriage is failing many, many people. Why do we still idealize it? My response to this article follows below: Formalized marriage and monogamy began for practical reasons, unrelated to any religious notions [...]
Posted in News, People, Politics, Social Issues, opinion, sex on Jun 17th, 2009
The news is full of stories about the latest political “sex scandal” of the day. Yesterday, Nevada Republican Senator John Ensign publicly admitted to having an extramarital affair while legally separated from his wife. His admission was accompanied by the usual insincere, crocodile tears statement: “Last year I had an affair. I violated the vows [...]
Posted in Culture, Politics, Religion, Social Issues on Apr 7th, 2009
Many people who oppose same-sex marriage base their opposition on their belief that the purpose of marriage is to provide a legal structure in which to raise children, preferably of their own biological origin. But I believe that issues concerning children and those concerning marriage should be viewed as separately for a couple of reasons. [...]
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