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Shacking Up: What it Really Means When a Man Considers Moving in With You
People like to hold up the relatively few differences in how men and women perceive the world as unassailable proof that the gulf between the sexes is so wide that men and women may as well be from different planets and accordingly fashioned in the image of opposing gods. The truth is we have way more in common than not. The common strand of humanity that binds us is much stronger than our differences. Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way… holy fcuk, sometime women are so off base with how they assume men see the world I question if we evolved from the same ancestors. I’ve talked…
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Religion, Commitment, Marriage & the Moral Decline of our Nation
“Religion is responsible for more wars than any other institution in the history of mankind” is more likely to be the theme of any conversation about religion than any defense of the church or lamenting over the loss of traditional values in my social circles. I’m not a particularly religious person. More accurately, the blind conformity around the social construct of religion isn’t compatible with how I’m wired. Even so, the Pope retiring was surprisingly unsettling to me. I’m not Catholic. I’m from the south where culturally the Catholic Church is pretty much viewed like how the rebel faction in Star Wars viewed the Empire. Not surprising since the religious…
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Playing Relationship Chess – Her Strategic Moves and my Toothbrush Rant
I’m not a conspiracy theorist. Really I’m not. Just because you can’t figure something out before the commercial break ends doesn’t mean that some clandestine organization headed by a shadowy figure with a raspy voice, a computer from the 80s and a cat that will clearly have intimacy issues with its next owner is responsible. But there really is no other logical explanation for how every single woman tests the boundaries of a new relationship in the exact same way. Without fail, every time I’m in a relationship that enters the sleepover without titles phase I wake up to the same sophistic paradox; a nonindigenous toothbrush belligerently positioned in my…
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Black Democratic Voters Unchained, Republicans Unchanged: Politics as Usual
In the wake of a paradigm shifting election where evangelical Christians voted overwhelmingly for a devout Mormon, a black man was reelected as president in spite of a stalling economy and the long discussed demographic clout of the growing Hispanic population was finally felt, one voting bloc remained unchanged; black people still continued to vote overwhelmingly democratic. With Charles Krauthammer leading the charge, bringing the Hispanic vote into the republican fold has been agreed upon prescription for future Republican success (and understandably so), but with margins so thin in swing states, why no push to bring the naturally conservative black voter back into the party of Lincoln? Understanding why black…