MY RECENT COMMENTS
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sales at the book reading.
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Mountain in your cowboyology?
The scene
where Ennis visits
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October 30, 2009 12:40AM - “What effect have your
Open Salon posts had on your
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October 27, 2009 11:57PM - “I second Will Someone
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October 27, 2009 03:57PM - “When I worked at Target
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Travis D'arby's Links
Should Tennis Star Simona Halep Have 34DD Breasts Reduced?
Seventeen year-old tennis sensation Simona Halep has vowed to have her 34DD breasts surgically reduced. The 5'5" Romanian says "The breasts make me uncomfortable when I play. It's the weight that troubles me - my ability to react quickly."

Fans of the world's 317th ranked player reacted… Read full post »
1.) Jessica Alba
Ladies, do you ever wonder how celebrities pop out the babies like Pez Dispensers and still keep their trim figures? Is it the personal trainers and private chefs that do the trick? Um . . . no. It's the airbrusher, honey. The real Jessica Alba--mere months after… Read full post »
I joined the 21st Century a few weeks ago and signed up for Facebook. While the Facebook software loaded up the names of friends it found in my AOL inbox, one in particular surprised me: my wife's. Hers was an invitation only page so I sent her a friends request. Days… Read full post »
Although I was born straight, here are ten reasons why I think gay sex is better than the heterosexual variety:
1.) Straight Sex is Treated Like a Competitive
Sport
Straight men call it scoring for a reason: we all keep track. Somewhere, on what had to have been a canopy… Read full post »
Has Porn Ruined Sex for Everyone?
Women, does your husband seem bored in the bedroom? Has his sex drive diminished and the amount of dirty socks you find in the hamper increased accordingly since you got broadband?
Let me tell you a secret. He’s disinterested because monogamy does not work when the wonders… Read full post »
Honesty is the best policy.
It is a cliche you hear spewed everywhere, from Oprah to the pages of Cosmo. Even omissions are treated as lies by these honesty junkies. But is an open, honest relationship in which you share everything with your partner really such a good idea?
The Internet has made the book smart kid as obsolete at the turn of this century as the horse was at the end of the last. When all the world's knowledge is but a search away on one's iPhone, we smart kids you once asked to settle barroom debates or… Read full post »
Homelessness is like homosexuality: it's not for everyone. But for that ten percent of us who are wired just a little bit differently, the freedom of living without a home can be just another lifestyle choice.
Much like gays know they are different from a very early age, I was well… Read full post »
Do African-Americans Deserve Reparations for Slavery?
The issue of reparations for slavery is a divisive one in America. While a 2002 opinion poll found that 67 percent of African-Americans supported monetary reparations, only 4 percent of whites agreed. If whites were to compensate African-Americans for their centuries of servitude, how much woul… Read full post »
Is Abstinence More Dangerous Than Sex?
No matter our upbringing, we've all heard about the dangers of sex. But is the alternative of abstinence actually the most dangerous practice of all?
Hardly a week goes by without news of yet another Catholic sex scandal. Being fondled by the parish priest has sadly become as much a… Read full post »
Great Moments in MILF History: From Cher to Diane Keaton
Imagine a 50 year-old woman seducing a 32 year-old man. Fifty years ago, the woman would have been portrayed as a faded movie star, her advances would be spurned and the scene would prove just how pathetic and out of touch she was, as it did in the Oscar-winning 1950… Read full post »
Hockey Star Sidney Crosby Caught in Bed with Stanley Cup!
That faint whimpering you hear coming from the north is the sound of all of Canada's single ladies weeping over the discovery that their nation's most eligible bachelor is now taken.

All I've got to say is put a rubber on it, Kid. We know where she's been and… Read full post »
Alone but not Lonely: A Call for Introvert Rights
Alone but not lonely? In our hyper-socialized culture, the title of this article will strike many as a misnomer at best or a deliberate attention grabbing stab at Ann Coulter style notoriety at worst. As every media schooled citizen knows, the state of being alone inevitably leads to the emotio/… Read full post »
This is What a Friendless Life Feels Like . . .
Growing up, a friendless life seemed perfectly normal to me. My own parents never socialized and neither did the Huxtables, Bradys or Seavers on TV. Melodramatic after-school specials taught me all about the dangers of peer pressure while Diff'rent Strokes further hammered home the point… Read full post »
The Open Salon 1st Annual Father's Day Awards
Most Prolific Father: Travis Henry
The former Tennessee Titan is the proud papa of eleven little bundles of joy by ten different women. The star running back is currently jailed for failing to pay his $17,000 a month child support bills. He is also facing federal cocaine trafficking charges. The… Read full post »
Political Correctness Gone Too Far: Thoughts on Teaching
I originally intended to come on-line this morning and apologize to all the teachers for my Chasing Dreams: The Secrets to My Lack of Success article. Once you peel away the tar and feathers I received a few days ago, you'd find a good little student underneath. Honest. I planned on… Read full post »
The Top 15 Personality Types of Reddit Users
1.) Kurt Cobain: The Self-Loather
This redditer seemingly lives an enchanted existence. He has the hits and karma we all want, and his posts land on the cover of reddit quicker than ours reach the new list.
Yet it's still not enough for this tormented artiste. He is secretly ashamed of… Read full post »
Can Introverts Succeed in an Extrovert World?
Remember when you first discovered you were an introvert? For me it was the fall of 1996: my freshman year of college. No major struck my fancy so I chose Business; more out of pragmatism--the business of America is business after all--than a burning desire to one day have a cubicle… Read full post »
NPR Discriminates Against Virgins
Barbs against introverts are not only the domain of locker room Neanderthals and loutish drunks at the bar. Even the sophisticates at National Public Radio see fit to drop their façade of political correctness where we are concerned. A sound clip on the NPR website began with this text introdu/… Read full post »
While I consider Proposition 8 a step in the right direction, it does not go nearly far enough. Why should we stop at only banning gay marriage? We live in an allegedly secular nation with separation of church and state yet our government gives tax breaks and benefits to couples who… Read full post »
I thought being a husband would come easily to me. But months after saying I do I'm beginning to wonder what the hell I was thinking.
Oh, I had heard all the scuttlebutt about the misery of marriage. But if marriage really promised only misery and heartache, why would nearly 3/4… Read full post »
Anatomy of an Angry White Man: Why Men Act like Jerks Online
By the time you log off your computer tonight, you will have seen more assholes than your proctologist sees in a week. As women are wont to point out, the Internet asshole seems to be a strictly male phenomenon. Are women right? I'm not sure but 10 months of marriage have… Read full post »
While sales of luxury goods such as jewelry and fragrances are expected to drop 20 percent in the first two quarters of 2009, one luxury item continues to sell: baseball tickets. Attendance is down only 5.2% compared with the same number of home games at each park a year ago, a… Read full post »
The $70 million box office hit I Love You, Man is coming to DVD August 11th. For those who skipped its theatrical run because the commercials made it look like just another gross-out, full-frontal male nudity romp from the Judd Apatow troupe, take a gander at the Rotten Tomatoes plot summary:/… Read full post »
Like welfare queens and trickle down economics, political correctness is the canard that keeps on giving. Fifteen years after Politically Correct Bedtime Stories topped the New York Times best-seller list, the American obsession with making fun of political correctness continues unabated on websites… Read full post »

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