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On any American street, or in any airport or mall, you see the same sad tableau: A 10-year-old boy is walking with his father, whose development was evidently arrested when he was that age, judging by his clothes. Father and son are dressed identically -- running shoes, T-shirts. And jeans, always jeans. If mother is there, she, too, is draped in denim. Writer Daniel Akst ... Writing in the Wall Street Journal...has denounced denim, summoning Americans to soul-searching and repentance about the plague of that ubiquitous fabric, which is symptomatic of deep disorders in the national psyche. It is, he...

We're all big babies Last Updated: 12:01am BST 22/10/2006 How to be an adult Bombarded by petty rules, bossy advice and celebrity tittle-tattle, we have forgotton how to be adults. It's time we grew up, says Michael Bywater I imagine myself to be a grown-up, as, presumably, do you. You think that because you negotiated puberty and developed secondary sexual characteristics, and got qualifications and opened a bank account and subjected yourself to the scrutiny of anti-terrorism laws and anti-money-laundering laws and learned to drive and got a job and perhaps a spouse and maybe children, and quite possibly even pay...

Hold your nose when you read this nonsense. It was on Matt Drudge tonight. More of the same Demorats cannot come up with any coherent policy. The only policy demonize Bush and assist Al-Queda in defeating us Politically just like VietNam all over again. This time it will mean the end of our Republic. http://barbrastreisand.com/statements.html#ifnotnowwhen I am boycotting all Hollywood Movies unless they have real merit. I.E. support Patriotism, Freedom, and America. Otherwise they can all go out of business. Lets make em feel it in the pocket book. Support the boycott of Hollyweird!!!

“Man and Woman”, “Wife”, “Husband”, “Widow”, “Widower” Banished From all Ontario Law Terms, when referring to spouses, are banned from all government programs, services, documentsToronto, February 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the obscenely rapid, three-day introduction and passage of its same-sex “marriage” Bill 171, the Ontario government has advanced a revolutionary change in the way all laws and government programs and institutions refer to marriage and married persons. Everything referring to spouses must now be gender neutral. No longer can a married couple be referred to as “husband and wife” or “man and woman”. The terms “Widow” and “widower” are...

When Amasis went to bed with her he was unable to have intercourse with her, though he had shown no lack of virility with other women. Astonished the king thus addressed his bride, “Woman, you have certainly bewitched me—now therefore be sure you shall perish more miserably than ever woman perished yet.” Ladice protested her innocence, but in vain; Amasis was not softened. Herodotus, The Persian Wars, Book II, 181 The day had been hot and that heat lasted long into the night. The window was open to let in what cool air there was. An hour or so after...

<p>What's going on here? True, Arafat has a young daughter, but she lives in Paris and seldom if ever sees her dad. Ha'aretz reports that the head of Israel's Shin Bet security services told France's interior minister last month that, in the Israeli newspaper's words, "Arafat's mental functioning has deteriorated greatly of late and his behavior is marked by faulty judgment." Is he regressing to infancy in his dotage?</p>