Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jun 25 2009 | Filed under: Culture Watch
As you all know, over the years I’ve been fascinated by male and female roles in America. As the mother of a very manly little 10 year old, I take male role models in this culture very seriously. I’ve therefore noticed (and commented upon) the way in which our society consigns boys to perpetual adolescence. [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Apr 01 2009 | Filed under: Crime, Culture Watch
What do you bet that, if Lovelle Mixon had died while in prison for the rape he committed against a 12 year old, or had been shot by another gang member (or while robbing a house), or had OD’d on his drug of choice, his funeral turn-out would have numbered in the double digits? Heck, [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Mar 09 2009 | Filed under: Culture Watch, Gay Marriage Debate
As you know, one of my main reasons for supporting Proposition 8, which amended the California constitution to define marriage as a relationship between one man and one woman, was because I believe that move to redefine marriage has the potential to put the State and religion organizations — especially the Catholic church — into [...]
Debbie Hamilton at Right Truth on Mar 01 2009 | Filed under: Culture Watch
The United States, Canada, and Israel will not participate in a U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Geneva from April 20-25, known as Durban II, unless the final document is changed to drop all references to Israel and its criticism of religion. Good! The United States and Israel walked out of the previous conference, held [...]
RightGirl at Girl on the Right on Feb 26 2009 | Filed under: Culture Watch, sex
In the UK, a young boy aged just 13 years old became a father via his 15 year old girlfriend. Well, at least they think he’s the father. It could be one of the other six guys she was shagging.
To add insult to grievous injury, parents are now being told by leaders of Britain´s Department [...]
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Feb 25 2009 | Filed under: Culture Watch
Via Gerard: Review in Frontpage Magazine about Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, by David Brooks. Must be a great book, since it notices what I’ve been noticing for a while; that’s long been one of my favorite litmus tests.
Bobos, or bourgeois bohemians, are, to put it bluntly, the [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Feb 24 2009 | Filed under: Culture Watch, Democracy
I’ve been thinking a lot about the challenge for government in a world with higher expectations. Cast your mind back to the years when the Founders signed off on the Declaration of Independence and created the Bill of Rights. It was a very different world, with very different needs and expectations.
Let’s start with a simple [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Feb 23 2009 | Filed under: Crime, Culture Watch
The title of this post is the cri de coeur of a father whose son died in his arms. We can all sympathize with how he feels — except that it gets a little more complicated when you read the story about how his son died. You see his son, armed with a gun, and [...]
Big Dog at Big Dog's Weblog on Feb 20 2009 | Filed under: Culture Watch, Racism
There are a few issues about race today and they involve a chimpanzee and an Attorney General who can best be described as an ass.
The first story is about a political cartoon that uses the horrible incident of the 200 pound chimp that attacked a woman. The police had to shoot the animal to put [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Feb 12 2009 | Filed under: Culture Watch
As an aficionado of fashion history, I’m well aware that for centuries, men wore many of the accoutrements that characterized women’s clothes. Long dress-like clothes, stockings, high heels, bows, long curly hair were de rigeur for the well-to-do, with Louis XIV exemplifying so many of these trends:
Of course, while this type of male attire shared [...]
