Many men may use love (or fake love) to get sex, but many women use sex or sexual attraction to get material wealth. Who's less romantic?

But more to the point, the idea that you can use "rules" to get your partner to love you, or that violating those rules means your partner will leave you, suggests a superficial connection at best. I know that when I've said such words, it's been in my own time, for my own reasons, in the context of a strong ongoing relationship. Sometimes it was reciprocated, sometimes not, but either way the relationship survived. And I'd expect that sort of honesty from my partner as well. Forget the rules that tell you to dance and lie and hide what you mean.

Minor point here, but your article suggests that the Indians never really threatened the English settlers' existence. This ignores what is commonly called "King Philip's War", where the Wampanoag leader Metacomet fought the Massachusetts colony. While the Wampanoags and their allies lost that war, they did wipe out about half the population of the colony.

This isn't a well-known episode, but it actually strengthens the point of the article.

The big mistake the Republicans could make by picking Blackwell (because he's, well, black) is that Blackwell does not have strong support among black people. The best argument for that is the 2006 Ohio gubanatorial contest, in which Strickland easily won all of the heavily black (and solidly Democrat) districts by at least as wide a margin as in previous races. If you wanted to find someone who truly represented Ohio's black population, you'd look no further than the late Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones.

So go ahead and make that choice, GOP. I'll take Tim Kaine over Blackwell any day of the week.

The biggest problem with HJNTITY is that it perpetuates the Cosmo model of how women should relate to men. Among other things, it says that the way a woman should show that she's interested in a man is by trying to convince him to ask her out.

This is grossly unfair to both men and the women interested in them. Men frequently miss when a woman is trying to hint at something. She may be frustrated as all heck that her signals aren't getting through, and he may be simply oblivious. So my advice to women interested in a man is to go for it and tell him. And if you're scared of doing that, realize that that is precisely the risk that men take again and again.

Especially for the women who are more Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton than Cindy McCain, the men who will treat you like equals will not get scared off by that. And if it doesn't work for whatever reason, the issue isn't that you're doing something wrong, it's simply that you weren't right for each other.

But at the very least we should remind ourselves of the common denominator here: As mothers, we’re all in uncharted waters and doing the best we can to stay afloat.

Granted, I'm male, so I may not have much insight into the experience of breastfeeding, but what I know is that mothers, especially mothers of newborns, aren't in anything close to uncharted waters. They're in waters that have been charted by mothers, grandmothers, sisters, midwives, and friends since long before recorded history. In addition, it should be worth mentioning that pediatricians are more and more commonly women, and often mothers themselves. In short, no mother should feel like she has to make the decision to breastfeed or not without help and support.

However, one sentiment I heard was that mothers can and should put arguments over breastfeeding aside to work for things all mothers should have, like more family leave to care for their child properly, work opportunities for mothers returning to the workforce after taking time off to care for young children, and alternative work arrangements that allow either parent to care for children while maintaining some income.

Christianity: Deus vult! (God wills it)

Islam: Allahu akbar! (God is great)

Both were used on opposing sides in the same wars. Neither one really had much moral authority: if anything, Saladin was far more kind to prisoners than most of the Europeans he was fighting. Or if you want to move a bit later in history, there's the Ottomans vs the Christian Vlad the Impaler. Or enjoy a bit of the Inquisition. Or maybe the various witch trials.

Christianity, like Islam, spread a lot via force of arms, displacing the pagan faiths. If it hadn't, a much larger number of people would be worshiping Odin, Lugh, or Zeus right about now.

Something we must not forget:

Alito + Roberts + Thomas + Scalia + Kennedy = 5

Stevens + Souter + Ginsberg + Breyer = 4

In other words, Coleman is going to try to get this case in front of the US Supreme Court and have Kennedy cast the deciding vote in his favor like he did in Bush v Gore. He'll do this whether the Minnesota Supreme Court grants his appeal or not.

Also, it's in the Republican Party's interest to drag out this case as long as possible to reduce the Democratic majority in the Senate. That's part of why they're supporting Coleman on this.

As a straight man, let me assure you that I for one prefer women who primarily use their brains and training to succeed in most areas of her life. When a woman is trying to use her sexuality to make gains in areas that aren't related to sex, that's simply reinforcing the idea that women who have made it got there by sleeping or flirting their way to the top. It also creates a perception among men that the standards are lower for women than they are for men.

The obvious exception to this is her personal life: while I strongly prefer women who are smart, I even more strongly prefer women who are smart and are acting interested in me.