Some good news here. Of course there has to be the ding on men with this thrown in there:

However, far fewer women said they would trust men in general to use the contraceptive.

Still, it's good news, and the Pill-4-Men can't come too soon.

Another story of an intoxicated mother passing out onto her baby during breastfeeding only to wake up to find she had smothered the child to death. How much time does she get? Not that much. Would a dad who drunkenly passed out while cradling a baby and smothering the child to death as a result also just get "some time"? Doubt it. Excerpt:

Prosecutor John Jorgensen said he would recommend that she receive at least some prison time.

"We just believe she should be held accountable for the neglect," he said.

Hawkins had been drinking at a bowling alley in February 2005, and after her husband dropped her and the child off at home, she started breast-feeding the baby but fell asleep, a criminal complaint said.

Apparently the fact that circumcision doesn't prevent HIV transmission is irrelevant to the Zambian government. Story here.

Anonymous User writes "See this story.

This woman had a child and placed it in a trash bag and then into a dumpster to abandon it to die. Luckily a passer by found it. She lied and said the child was the product of a rape at a party. I wonder how many men were harassed on these false charges. The charges against her for trying to kill her child were dropped. Turns out the father of the child was her cousin, who at the time was 12, I believe she was about 20 when she raped him. Currently rape of a child under 13 carries a life sentence, but did not at the time, so she faces 5-25 yrs, and is expected to serve at least three. We know all this becuase she admitted it, trying to make things right."

Click "Read more..." for more.

Read it and weep... hard to even come close to believing the excuses she is coming up with, and of course, guess who is really responsible... her husband!

I find it hard to believe that either of them were this stupid/ignorant. Something really evil and/or nuts was going on here.

Steven Brown writes "A good thing he only sneered at her, otherwise who knows what she'll have been forced to do to him! Story here. Excerpt:

'Mr Hamilton believes had he not sneered at his wife, she wouldn't have carried out these actions.'

These 'actions' being lunging at him with two knives! Also note the headline and general tone of the story. She's referred to as 'mum' and he's referred to as 'husband' not 'dad'!

No need to say of course, that if the genders had been reversed he'd be in prison and she'd be hailed as survivor of domestic violence.

The silly man has decided to stay with her..."

Ragtime writes "From the story:

'A veteran Chatham police officer who headed the force's domestic-violence unit has been charged with assault following a domestic dispute.'

I suspect this violent police woman fully expected to be treated like the "victim" after she slapped and kicked a man, just like so many other violent women before her, "but police were called by a witness, Chief Carl Herder said yesterday." "We have an obligation to the community," Herder said. "We're there to protect the victims, regardless of who the accused is." Nice to see a police chief who's grown a pair!."

Dittohd writes "It appears in this story that in the photo line-up of pictures that the stripper had to choose her three alleged rapists from, there were no wrong answers! All the pictures presented were of lacrosse players so whomever she chose, she couldn't miss. Now if the lacrosse players go free based on the disqualification of the line-up evidence, will they always be considered to have been guilty because they 'got off on a technicality'?"

Anonymous User writes "Story here. Excerpt:

'A nationwide grass roots campaign has aligned with lawmakers to push passage of two laws designed to close the wage gap between men and women.

The campaign is working with four lawmakers, including New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, in moving forward the Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act.'"

One Herbert L. Chalmers of St. Louis, MO, finally lost it and did what some other men driven to the brink do. All very sad.... story here.

Anonymous User writes "News & Observer columnist Ruth Sheehan claims she was raped two decades ago with zero evidence. (Sidebar to the Duke LaCrosse Case). Sheehan's column is here."

quetzal writes "The St. Petersberg (FL) Times has printed its second front-page article in a series about single dating. Here is an excerpt from the Tuesday installment:

"Pepper Schwartz, a sociologist at the Univ. of Washington (and also a 'Relationship Expert' on PerfectMatch.com) says: 'One group[of middle-aged single men]...is the men nobody wants...They don't earn money or they are obese... They are losers in the truest sense of the word.'"

Ed. note: Check out the discussion on this article here. Also take a look at the first installment in the series. As you may have gathered from the quotation above, the series tone is most definitely not male-friendly, and it's also incredibly shallow in its analysis as well. Maybe they'll do better on the next two parts but I wouldn't hold my breath. Among many other things, the picture that this stampede toward singleness and especially childlessness points to is quite clear: the problem of elder-care facilities being short on staff won't be improving any time soon!

quetzal writes "..which of course is totally one-sided, i.e. anti-male. Excerpt from the article: "Most of the time when men are abusive it's because of insecurity."

You may phone the Largo Police Department Division of Media Relations at 727-582-6221, to let them know what you think!"

Stan Gaver writes "I found a link on Monster.com entitled The Gender Wage Gap. I clicked it, expecting to find the same old lies and distortions about the so-called Wage Gap. As expected, the opening line included the typical BS, about how "...women in the US workforce still earn substantially less than their male colleagues."

I almost stopped reading right there, but decided to continue on, and was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the article, instead of simply repeating the same old feminist pay-gap mantra, actually rebutted the "discrimination" excuse. In fact, the article went on to include much of the information from Warren Farrell's new book "Why Men Earn More" and did a decent job of fairly presenting the "other" side of the issue.

A good sign that the truth is starting to come out."

Another high-profile case, this... we'll see where it goes. Excerpt:

Bianca Nardi, 28, of Fort Lee, N.J., says in court papers that the sexually charged atmosphere among the show's production staff was fostered by the "intimate and sexual relationship between defendants Maurice Richard Povich and Donna Benner Ingber."

...

Povich is married to the veteran television news anchor Connie Chung.

Gary Rosen, spokesman for the show, flatly denied the allegations, as did a spokeswoman for NBC Universal.

"We are aware of the allegations of harassment made by Ms. Nardi. We have done a complete and thorough investigation of her allegations of harassment and we are satisfied that there is no merit to them," Rosen said. "We stand behind our experienced and dedicated staff, fully."