but honestly, we've known this forever. All anyone has to do is look at actual male behavior and it becomes entirely clear that masculinity is about a lot more than scoring with the ladies. I mean, if it weren't, why would men ever marry or become part of an unmarried couple? Why wouldn't we all be out cruising all the time? The simple truth is that there are many things in life important to men, from safety and security to emotional, psychological, emotional, material and physical wellbeing to intellectual and spiritual stimulation. Men want partners we can love and children we can love, raise and mentor. Men want to be self-reliant and to be relied on. We want to be a source of material and emotional support to others. Etc., etc. This is ancient history which unfortunately too many people never learned.

I personally believe that the silly beliefs that this study puts to rest have come about in part from our culture which values youth above all things. The insistence that youth is the prime of life and that it's all downhill afterward carries with it the notion that to understand young men is to understand men generally. Young men of course tend to play around more than older men which tends to promote the ideas the Kinsey study debunks.

all the MSM on the Edwards affair, so maybe they got this one right too. My understanding is that they tend to pay boatloads of money to reliable sources on the sexual doings of public figures. Chances are the Enquirer and the McCain campaign are in a bidding war even now. I hope the story's true. It'll be fun to watch the "Christian" Right try to spin it.

instead of just bad taste is that if it's true it means (a)she's a liar, which presumably could affect the perception of her qualifications for office and (b)as a card-carrying member of the "family values" crowd, it makes her a hypocrit, which could do the same.

what the laws in the EU and UK are regarding freedom of speech, but apparently they aren't very stringent or deemed very important by those who would ban this advertising. Feminism has always had its fascistic elements, and this is right in line with the "anything that offends us should be banned by the government" line of thinking. In the U.S. sexual harrassment law punishes speech that offends the hearer whether it was meant to be offensive or whether it is considered offensive to the average person or not.

This is all about treating women as a special category of human being, more delicate and easily offended, and less able to care for themselves, than men. As such, it's sexist in and of itself, a truth borne out by the fact that misandric speech is apparently left untouched. But of course it's more than just sexist, it's sexist in the traditional sense which holds that women, far from being strong, resilient and able to take care of themselves, are weak and incompetent and therefore need the special protection of men and of the law from, in this case, words and images. It's what feminists once told us they opposed. But, as they say, that was then and this is now.

Feminists once claimed to be for equality of the sexes, but that was before they discovered they could claim both - equality at work, at home, in politics, etc. and traditional special treatment as beings uniquely in need of protection. Eventually, I believe, women will figure out that to actually achieve equality in all areas of society and life, they'll have to give up the pose of delicate flower. For our part, men will have to put aside the romanitc role of strong and fearless protector. But that will take changes in women and men that we aren't ready to make just yet.

Pittsburg Steelers who manhandled Houston and who looked every bit like a team that can contend for the title this year.

and it's not just MNF that's at fault. National broadcasts of NBA games are just as bad or worse. I've begun to wonder what those guys are doing there since they're obviously not interested in the game or apparently basketball at all. Make book on it; regardless of who's actually playing, the topic will be Kobe Bryant. With baseball it's the Yankees and the Red Sox. When ESPN spends over an hour of its broadcast day on Jason Giambi's mustache, you know there's a problem. Joba Chamberlain hurt his shoulder and ESPN spent hours on the possible impact. How many pitchers hurt a shoulder this year?

The main problem is that these guys just can't believe that anyone is actually interested in the game, particularly if one of their favorite teams isn't playing.

And of course the Favre thing is just beyond the pale.

is "We've had eight years of an under-experienced governor running our country. If you want four more years of Bush, vote Republican; if you want a change for the better, vote Democratic."

learn the difference between the verb "to hone" and the verb "to home." Hone means to sharpen; home means to draw near to. You misuse hone in this piece.