Yesterday a colleague of mine, Ariana, left our company for a new job in Australia. Ariana is twenty-nine: this is not insignificant. Ariana is attractive – or rather, she retains the last vestiges of her youthful beauty. OK, Ariana was never a stunner, never a first-rate head-turner. But with her slender body, her long, thick black hair and a mischievous face that suggested a profound appetite for naughtiness, she was sexy. I use the past tense for a reason. In the two years we have worked together, I have observed a definite depreciation in her looks. In part, this is due to Read More

Jian Ghomeshi is a Canadian former talk show host, the man behind very popular radio show Q for eight years during a nearly 14-year career with the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC). Ghomeshi had built up significant amount of good will with left-leaning Canadians by espousing a platform of equalism and social justice, having just spoken out with an anti-GamerGate bent earlier this month. Most Canadians even assumed that he was a homosexual, a protected and elevated class in the word view to which his show pandered. That all ended several days ago, when Ghomeshi was fired from CBC for claims of Read More

Not long ago I made a shift in the type of girl I would pursue. Instead of relying on the boner test, whereby I'd approach girls who I wanted to have sex with, I started to use the beauty test, where I'd carefully evaluate a girl's beauty, make sure it was exquisite, and then approach. While I did still approach girls who excited my boner, I began listening more to my brain's desire for beauty instead of my crotch's desire for sex. This led to a few unintended consequences. What is a stronger motivator of male behavior: desire for sex or Read More

GamerGate has morphed from a seemingly-innocuous case of infidelity to perhaps the single dominant issue in the blogosphere in less than two months. As such, yet another piece on the subject might seem like overkill, but as of this writing I have yet to see a comprehensive analysis of the place GamerGate has in a larger, historical context. To date, the majority of the discussion has been about whether GamerGate is about ethics in gaming journalism, or whether it is merely the Trojan horse that carries a legion of misogynists to make the world of gaming a dangerous place for Read More

Kelly: Daddy, did you pick up the permission slip at school like I asked you? Al: Pumpkin, have I ever disappointed you before? Kelly: Yes Daddy. Lots of times. Al: Then what I have to tell you won't come as a surprise. When “Married With Children” first came on the air the buzz was about cheap, mindless bathroom humor. So I didn't watch the first two seasons. Finally, I watched an episode and discovered it was hilarious…and hilarious because it was filled with truth and wisdom. It became a favorite show of mine. I watched it for years and in reruns. In one episode a Read More