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Birth Control Debate Has a New Face: Desmond Hatchett
News of a Tennessee man who can’t afford child support for his 30 kids — yes, 30 — blazed across the Internet this week when Desmond Hatchett of Knoxville asked the court to give him a break on those payments.
Of course he can’t afford to pay for 30 kids. Who can, except for maybe the Duggars?
Hatchett is tired of going to court every other month over this child support that he can’t...
So Who Gets to Decide Who Is ‘Mom Enough’?
Time Magazine’s latest cover is all the buzz on Facebook, Twitter, and well, everywhere today. It shows mom Jamie Lynne Grumet breastfeeding her nearly 4-year-old son, who is standing on a chair. Some have called it shocking. Others opine about whether this mom is setting her kid up for future embarrassment and ridicule. Still others just find it unsettling. Strange.
But let’s move past...
Junior Seau’s Death Brings Suicide Prevention into Focus
I let out a gasp when I found out that NFL great Junior Seau died today. And I was quite saddened to hear he died from an apparent suicide.
Seau was playing when I started watching football in 1993. He was an awesome linebacker and seemed like a really nice guy. According to the news story, he is the eighth member of the 1994 San Diego Chargers to die at a young age. He was 43. And he is the second...
Do Top Earners Work Harder Than Others?
“Do you think higher earners work harder?” was the question posed in The Wall Street Journal’s The Wealth Report blog recently. Robert Frank points to a new study that says leisure inequality has grown between high earners and low earners. Leisure inequality, in case you are wondering, is time spent on enjoyment or entertainment. High earners are finding less time to pursue leisure...
Tiger Woods Poised for Redemption, But Reminders Remain
American loves redemption.
Yes, even as we have a case of Schadenfreude that causes us to feel good about things that go bad for others, gossip incessantly about celebrity divorces, and secretly — or not-so-secretly — revel in others’ falls from grace.
We hungrily lap up all the negative news about our celebrities, but we don’t mind welcoming them back with open arms and memories freshly...
What Are We Going to Do About Trayvon Martin’s Death?
Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee announced today he is stepping aside “temporarily” amid the furor over the handling of the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin.
The man who shot the unarmed, defenseless 17-year-old Feb. 26 has not been arrested or charged. George Zimmerman apparently chased Martin and shot him — then claimed self-defense.
Zimmerman, who has called police nearly...
We All Have a Little “GCB” in Us
It’s easy to judge something before ever even taking the time to get to know it.
Such is the case with ABC’s new midseason replacement, GCB. Certain people and groups are crying foul about the show because they say it demeans Christians and makes fun of God. Their immediate dislike of the show stems from the fact that GCB has been called Good Christian Bitches, as it is based on Kim Gatlin’s...
Stop United States censorship
Today, we join in the fight to raise awareness about two bills in Congress that are very dangerous for all of us. H.R. 3261, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and S.968, Protect IP (PIPA), have good intentions but the execution and impact would be devastating. The bills would shut down websites where someone suspected copyrighted material was being misused. While we certainly want to protect copyrights,...
