Evidently, they’ve run yet another study concluding that women are angry:
IT is the research finding every man suspected, and every women will vehemently disagree with - women are the angrier sex.
New research that examined the responses of 22,000 people over 50 years has found that women are more likely to feel angry and persistently frustrated […]
The Texas legislature passed an expanded “castle doctrine” this week, effectively broadening the definition of where one can use deadly force in self-defense, while removing the requirement to retreat if possible. From the LA Times:
AUSTIN, Texas Mar 28, 2007 (AP)— Texans will be able to use deadly force to defend themselves in their homes, cars […]
If you read nothing else today, read this:
According to my wife, who was at a stop sign just feet from the altercation, two older men were arguing and one threatened to shoot the other. The second suggested the first didn’t have a gun. yelled. Challenged, fellow number one pulled out his gun and waved it […]
Iran’s seizure of 15 British naval personnel has analysts and pundits spinning in circles. Were they trying to influence the U.N. Security Council? Are they trying to “reassert their political and military relevance” in the Persian Gulf area?
Perhaps they’re trying to leverage public opinion — in this case, against Tony Blair — by taking hostages […]
Nick Anderson at the Houston Chronicle brings to life what I’ve been thinking.
How come it’s only “pork” when “the other guys” do it?
The strange goings-on with the gun that may (or may not) be Sen. Jim Webb’s, and which may (or may not) have been given to an aide to hold because Webb may (or may not) have forgotten that he couldn’t carry it with him on a plane… (pause for breath)… keeps getting stranger:
Sen. Jim Webb […]
Yes, I know. I’ve been posting lightly again. I have a really great excuse though:
That’s a picture of the north garden in Polimom’s backyard, and as recently as a week ago, the trumpet vines were bare twigs (that I’d cut back to nothing), the Ruella in the foreground was about six inches tall, […]
Almost a year ago, Kathy Sierra wrote a post about Angry / Negative People. How ironic:
As I type this, I am supposed to be in San Diego, delivering a workshop at the ETech conference. But I’m not. I’m at home, with the doors locked, terrified. For the last four weeks, I’ve been getting death […]
When Adorable Child (AC) was not quite two, Polimom started taking her to restaurants. I had several goals — not least of which was relief from cooking. Single parents are the chief cooks and bottle washers, and it gets tiresome.
But giving myself a break was a secondary goal. What I was actually doing was laying […]