Pizza and the Dark Night of the Soul

 

RENÉE writes:

I just started reading a book, The Long Dark T-Time of the Soul, by one of my favorite science fiction authors: Douglas Adams. It was written in 1988. In it is the most perfect account of a young woman’s relationship with pizza. I normally would only have laughed at it. However, because I am under the tutelage of The Thinking Housewife, I know this is a sign of the times.  I think you will appreciate the description:

“She enjoyed the notion that New York was home, and that she missed it, but in fact the only thing she really missed was pizza. (more…)

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Male Breadwinners Refuse to Toe the Line

 

MEN who support their wives in traditional marriages represent a serious threat to the feminist revolution, say the authors of new Harvard-funded research, PJ Tatler reports.

The three authors of the article “Marriage Structure and Resistance to the Gender Revolution in the Workplace” write:

In this article, we examine a heretofore neglected pocket of resistance to the gender revolution in the workplace: married male employees who have stay-at-home wives. (more…)

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Obama’s Joke

 

It is highly doubtful that Obama meant the off-color joke that has caused such an uproar since yesterday.

The President, as is well known, was speaking at a fundraiser for the LGBT Leadership Council in Beverly Hills. (LGBT’s, for those who have been away, are members of the exalted LGBTQQIP community.) When Obama was introducing the child-like lesbian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, he made the following comments:

I want to thank my wonderful friend who accepts a little bit of teasing  about Michelle beating her in pushups — (laughter) — (more…)

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The Proletarianization of Children’s Clothes

 

KAREN writes:

I’m visiting my in-laws in North Alabama, and stopped by the local outdoor, upscale mall. They have a lot of stores that you can only find in large cities, and I enjoy window shopping there and occasionally picking up some stuff on sale. Anyway, I wanted to stop at the Strasburg Children store. The store sells beautiful smocked dresses for girls and jon jons for little boys. It’s the kind of place where you would buy a baptismal dress, or a Christmas dress, or just a set of pretty clothes for your children to wear at church or for a family portrait. At least, that’s what the store used to sell! (more…)

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The Female Warriors at the London Olympics

 

Lucia Rijker, 2005

A READER, Susan-Anne White, wrote the following letter to a Northern Ireland newspaper yesterday:

The “sport” of women’s boxing  is listed as an event (for the first time ever) at this summer’s Olympic  games. However, this dubious milestone will not mark the first time that women   have entered a boxing ring, because, for some time now, thanks to Feminism, women have had an equal right to be punched black and blue, under the guise of  “sport”, just like men. Boxing is a dangerous sport for anyone, male or  female, and I would argue that it should be banned  entirely.

The sad case of a female boxer, Becky Zerlentes, serves as a poignant example (and a warning). She was 34, and she died on April 3rd, 2005, following head injuries sustained during a boxing match. Her   death was due to a blood clot on the brain, caused by blunt force trauma to the head. She was wearing her required protective headgear at the time. (more…)

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Endless Maternal Whining on Facebook

 

T. WRITES:

Until recently, when I joined a “mothers” forum, I had maintained a very superficial presence on Facebook.  It became clear very quickly, however, that the forum was nothing less than an ode to child neglect. (more…)

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The Paycheck Unfairness Act

 

THE SENATE this week rejected the second effort by Democrats to pass the draconian Paycheck Fairness Act, which would have multiplied the number of sex discrimination suits and further eroded the autonomy of the private sector under feminist tyranny. This is one small victory. Phyllis Schlafly writes of the bill:

This bill is another costly item on the feminists’ wish lists that would allow the federal government to artificially inflate salaries for jobs traditionally held by women, while freezing wages for jobs traditionally performed by men and empowering women to sue their employers to enforce these controlled wages. (more…)

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On Ephebophilia

 

A READER writes:

You mentioned the incidence of child molestation among homosexuals in your recent post. The strong preference of homosexual men for much younger men has indeed been substantiated. This phenomenon merits a special category of its own: ephebophilia. (more…)

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D-Day

    DIANA writes: Today is the 68th anniversay of D-Day. And I just noticed that Google chose to commemorate the day (with their decorative logo)  by noting that it is the 79th anniversary of the drive-in movie theater.

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J.C. Penney’s Promotes Homosexuality Again

  J.C. PENNEY'S, the retailer that once stood for traditional middle class values, is once again promoting same-sex "marriage" in its ads. The department store chain chose the child-like lesbian, Ellen DeGeneres, as its spokeswoman earlier this year. The company responded to letters of complaint by stating: As we focus on being in sync with the rhythm of our customers’ lives and operating in a ‘Fair and Square’ manner that is rooted in integrity, simplicity and respect, we couldn’t think of a better partner than Ellen DeGeneres. We are extremely proud to have her on our team. Now for Father's Day, the chain's print circular features a homosexual couple (above) with adopted children, reports The Vancouver Sun. So there is no question about Penney's commitment to the cause. Macy's featured a homosexual couple in an ad in February. The organization One Million Moms continues to pursue a campaign against the ads, advising customers who received the Penney's circular to write "Return to Sender" on the outside and to cancel any Penney's credit cards.

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A Type of Patricide

 

IN THE previous entry, I made the point that one always has a father, whether one knows him or not. A  person deliberately deprived of a father (or a mother) through homosexual “marriage” or artificial reproduction is like Hamlet — a man surrounded by a smiling villainy that says nothing is amiss. But the orphan knows something is wrong. Thus Hamlet’s final words to his father’s ghost in Act I, Scene 5:

…. —- Remember thee?
Aye, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
In this distracted globe. Remember thee!
Yea, from the table of my memory
I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records, (more…)

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Homosexual “Mothers” and “Fathers”

 

CA CONSERVATIVE writes:

You recently stated: “Heterosexual men commit sexual abuse too, but they do not have the same rate of sexual perversion against the young.” I immediately thought, “of course.” But I decided to do a bit of research online and consider the positions of various psychologists and statisticians on the topic. (more…)

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A Welcome Denunciation of a Feminist Nun

 

SISTER Margaret A. Farley, of the Sisters of Mercy of America, has been officially denounced by the Vatican for her 2006 book, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, which argues in favor of same-sex marriage, divorce and masturbation, reports The New York Times. The Congregation for the Doctrine of its Faith took two years to review the book. The wheels of Vatican censure grind exceedingly slow. Sister Farley said in response:

I can only clarify that the book was not intended to be an expression of current official Catholic teaching, nor was it aimed specifically against this teaching. It is of a different genre altogether.

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A Thomas Cole Landscape

  THOMAS COLE, considered the father of American landscape painting, only lived to age 47, but left a large body of works, which are in museums across the country today. These works include his favorite genre of allegorical paintings, as well as the romantic landscape scenes for which he is most famous. You can read a short biography of him here.

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A Look at Fertility and Educational Attainment

 

JESSE POWELL writes:

Looking at fertility of white women in America over the past 40 years, we see the development of a sharp divergence between college-educated and non-college-educated women.

In 1970, the fertility patterns of college-educated women, who represented a much smaller proportion of the overall female population, didn’t differ much from the non-college-educated.

Both groups of women had a strong preference for having their children young, before they were 30. Delaying childbearing until later in life was not common in either group. Also, illegitimacy was low for both.

Much has changed since. The group of college-educated women has expanded dramatically and a sharp disparity has developed  between the fertility of the non-college-educated, who account for more than 60 percent of all births, and the educated.

The non-college-educated woman in 2009 is more prone to delay having children until 30 than the college-educated woman was in 1970. And, among the college-educated, the desire to have children before 30, which was very strong in 1970, almost completely disappeared by 2009. Also, overall fertility has dropped greatly among both groups of women.

The high school dropout in 1970 had an illegitimacy ratio of ten percent while the esteemed college graduate had an illegitimacy ratio of only one percent; the ratio for the high school graduate was four percent. (more…)

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Comments and Posts

  I AM behind in posting comments and adding new posts due to the illness of a relative, a death in the family (the oldest son of my maternal grandfather, whom I wrote about here, died last week), and other matters. I hope to catch up today.

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On The Hunger Games



THE website Gulag Bound recently featured two interesting essays on The Hunger Games by Berit Kjos. She reviews both the book and the movie. Kjos writes:

I heard no laughter while watching The Hunger Games on opening day. Just sober silence. This teenage movie — set in a totalitarian world that supposedly replaced a broken America — shows the grim struggle for survival in a world without God, hope or meaning. The only “higher power” is a heartless government that supplies its own choice of artificial thrills and trials. And the people suffer.

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A Video Banned on Youtube

 

HERE is an outstanding video, posted at Heteroseparatist.com and made by the organization SaveCalifornia.com in response to the elevation of homosexual activist Harvey Milk to an official role model for children. Harvey Milk Day is May 22 in California schools.

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