It’s now official. You don’t need the store cupboard anymore. You can have time off work to have sex. Well, at least you can if you live in Russia.
The governor of the central Russian province has urged couples to skip work on Wednesday to make love in order to boost Russia’s low birth-rate. The population [...]
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Was it an ‘intentional act of broadcasting indecency’ or merely a ‘wardrobe malfunction’?
That is the question facing the the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, three years after Janet Jackson fleetingly exposed her right nipple to 90 million Super Bowl viewers. When Justin Timberlake pulled off part of Jackson’s bustier during the the half-time [...]
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Posted in Faith, Language, Religion on Aug 12th, 2007
If you had a personal relationship with a divine being, wouldn’t you want to know what she or he wanted? I mean, how can you have a personal relationship if the other being doesn’t communicate - certainly theoretically possible (just about), but practically very difficult. I mean, I might need to know if God wants [...]
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Posted in Existential, Humanity, Therapy on Aug 3rd, 2007
I learned today that Albert Ellis (or Big Al as I and a few friends fondly referred to him) is dead. Apparently he died on 24 July, 2007, of natural causes. He was 93. I feel both relieved about, and saddened by, his passing. To be perfectly honest, I felt that in his latter years [...]
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