Ring The Alarm!: Marriage Is On Its Way Out [16 Jan 2007|12:06pm] 51% of Women Are Now Living Without Spouse By SAM ROBERTS Published: January 16, 2007 For what experts say is probably the first time, more American women are living without a husband than with one, according to a New York Times analysis of census results. In 2005, 51 percent of women said they were living without a spouse, up from 35 percent in 1950 and 49 percent in 2000. Coupled with the fact that in 2005 married couples became a minority of all American households for the first time, the trend could ultimately shape social and workplace policies, including the ways government and employers distribute benefits. Several factors are driving the statistical shift. At one end of the age spectrum, women are marrying later or living with unmarried partners more often and for longer periods. At the other end, women are living longer as widows and, after a divorce, are more likely than men to delay remarriage, sometimes delighting in their newfound freedom. ( Read more... ) Link here I am more determined now than ever to reproduce with a man at the top of his game. Call me "fame-obsessed" if you wanna, daigor0, but that's the goal. I may never meet someone to love but I'ma get my babies took care of at the very least. 7 comments|post comment

Zizek in NYT: [16 Jan 2007|05:31pm] Denying the Facts, Finding the Truth - January 5, 2007 ONE of the pop heroes of the Iraq war was undoubtedly Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf, the unfortunate Iraqi information minister who, in his daily press conferences during the invasion, heroically denied even the most evident facts and stuck to the Iraqi line. Even with American tanks only a few hundred yards from his office, he continued to claim that the televised shots of tanks on the Baghdad streets were just Hollywood special effects. In his very performance as an excessive caricature, Mr. Sahhaf thereby revealed the hidden truth of the ''normal'' reporting: there were no refined spins in his comments, just a plain denial. There was something refreshingly liberating about his interventions, which displayed a striving to be liberated from the hold of facts and thus of the need to spin away their unpleasant aspects: his stance was, ''Whom do you believe, your eyes or my words?'' ( for safekeeping ) post comment

dirty capitalish [16 Jan 2007|06:35pm] When the Proenza Schouler sweatshop line comes out, I will kill any mofo who gets between me and cheap designer stuff. 9 comments|post comment

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