Story here. Excerpt:

'CHULA VISTA, Calif. -- A defense motion regarding questioning of the alleged victim forced the postponement Wednesday of a preliminary hearing for a South Bay elementary school teacher accused of having sex with her underage godson, who was also one of her students.

Carmina Erica Lopez, 33, is charged with eight counts of committing a lewd act on a child. She was arrested in January, when allegations of her alleged four-year sexual relationship with the victim came to light.

Prosecutor Leonard Trinh said he expects to add more charges when the defendant's preliminary hearing gets under way May 6 at the South Bay Courthouse.'

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'Former Rich South High School teacher Sarah Tolzien pleaded innocent today in Cook County Circuit Court in Markham to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old male student.

Tolzien, 24, of Arlington Heights, is facing eight counts of criminal sexual assault and 24 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

Tolzien, who also coached the boys varsity cross country team at the Richton Park school, resigned from the school Dec. 2.

The sexual activity between Tolzien and the boy, a member of the cross country team, occurred in Matteson while she gave him rides home Nov. 14 and Nov. 17, according to police.'

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'The Legislature is considering a bill that would automatically register young men with the Selective Service when they go for their driver's licenses. It would be a way to avert the trouble young men fall into when they forget to register.

The Selective Service is the agency that administers the draft, which does not exist at present (and has not since 1973). For people of a certain age, who remember the role the Selective Service played in their lives in the 1960s, the whole topic inspires a complicated mixture of feelings, many of them uncomfortable.
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In the meantime, young men are required to sign up for a draft that does not at the moment exist. As long as that is the case, they ought to be helped to do so in a convenient way. Using the driver's license process links the yearning for privilege of driving a car with the perhaps less-yearned obligation to serve. It seems like a reasonable bargain.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Q. You say men are the root of the problem, and in seeking a "moment of bliss," they deepen the misery of the women they pay for sex.

A. These men never ask how she is, how did she get here, is she being forced. They don't look into her eyes beyond the veneer of gaudy makeup, stiletto heels and cheap clothes. They just want to get their rocks off. When money changes hands, it's the ultimate conscience pacifier. They don't have to deal with guilt.

Q. If johns are charged, as you recommend, how would women be protected?

A. I strongly believe the vast majority of women are victims and shouldn't be charged or picked up in vice raids. You should pick up the men. They are demanding it, doing whatever they want. Sweden decriminalized the women and criminalized the men. They know it is a human-rights violation, that you'll never have equality and dignity and respect for women as long as this is allowed. Sweden is a beacon. The number of prostituted women has been reduced by half. Norway just introduced legalisation in January.'

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'Educators and high school and college officials are watching to see how the Obama administration will oversee the enforcement of the gender-discrimination law. Many agree he will at least maintain the enforcement level of Title IX, but how far his administration goes remains to be seen.

In March, Obama signed an order creating a White House Council on Women and Girls and spoke strongly in support of Title IX. Obama said he was establishing the council not just to continue equal opportunities for women, such as in sports, but to enhance them.
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On Title IX's 36th birthday last June, Obama said he would strengthen Title IX enforcement at the Department of Education and direct the department to help schools take the initiative in fulfilling their Title IX obligations. He supports the High School Sports Information Collection Act, which directs schools to make information on equality in athletic programs publicly available, as it is at the college level. '

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'Altogether, 80 fathers, stepfathers and other men in the students' lives were there one night last week. Counting students and other family members, the total came to about 150. Once everyone was settled in the library, the people at Bolton delivered the message that they want the men to keep coming back.

"Your children need you to be here," said Doreen Sorensen, the principal.

Guidance counselor Rinita Williams and others at Bolton are working to organize a chapter of a national group known as Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students), a school program sponsored by the National Center for Fathering.

The idea is to get fathers and father figures into schools to eat lunch with students, help them with projects and greet them in the halls. Having men around a school can have a positive overall effect on behavior, Williams said.'

Article here. When you look at the picture you'll see a young man wearing a pink t-shirt stating: 'Women's Health Matters'. I wonder if he realizes he'll die approximately 4 years earlier then a female of the same age. Excerpt:

Story here.

'Rockville police have charged a woman with kidnapping a kindergartener at an elementary school.

Police say 39-year-old Xuhua Huang and her husband went to Lakewood Elementary School on Tuesday to pick up their sick daughter.

But police say Huang didn't think her daughter was being treated well and decided to leave with a different child "to make someone else feel the way she did."

Police said that a school volunteer heard the boy ask Huang who she was and where she was taking him and followed them to the parking lot. Huang's husband yelled at her to let the boy go and the boy ran back to the volunteer.

Huang is charged with kidnapping, false imprisonment and second-degree assault.'

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'LIMERICK — A Limerick woman remains in York County Jail this week on charges of aggravated assault and violating conditions of release following the stabbing of her husband last Friday.

York County Sheriff's deputies responded to a 2 a.m. call from Washington Street in Limerick on April 17 for the report of a subject suffering from several stab wounds.

Upon arrival they found Scott Gammon, 38, of Limerick, with four stab wounds to his upper torso. Gammon was conscious and alert and told deputies that his wife, Nancy Gammon, 49, had stabbed him. Scott had fled and had gone to a friend's house nearby.'

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'An Ashland woman, originally charged with attempting to murder her ex-husband, will serve 90 days in jail for stabbing him last year.

Marilyn Alice Gale, 60, pleaded guilty today in Jackson County Circuit Court to third-degree assault and first-degree burglary. The sentence imposed by Judge Ray White includes five years of supervised probation, and Gale must comply with a list of conditions that includes having no contact with the victim, Alan Gale.

She also must continue with mental health treatment. Gale will receive credit for time served after her May 2008 arrest, but could end up serving up to three years in prison on the assault charge if she violates any of her probation conditions, White said.'

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'ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - A Denver woman faces another felony in her alleged plot to have her ex-husband, a Pitkin County prosecutor, killed.

The Jefferson County district attorney's office this week filed a count of solicitation of second-degree murder against 36-year-old Elinor Dvir.

Dvir already was facing felony counts of solicitation of first-degree murder and solicitation of first-degree assault. She is jailed on $100,000 bond.

District attorney's spokeswoman Pam Russell says the latest charge was filed after prosecutors looked at the evidence "from more than one angle." She declined to elaborate.

Dvir was arrested March 15 after investigators say she offered an undercover police officer $2,000 to kill her ex-husband, Richard Nedlin. Court records say the two are in a custody dispute.'

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'Christina Korbe has asked a federal court judge to authorize visits with her children.

Ms. Korbe, who has been in jail since Nov. 19, when she was charged in the shooting death of an FBI agent at her Indiana Township home, is being held in the Cambria County Prison.

John Elash, one of her defense attorneys, said Ms. Korbe has not had a contact with her children, ages 5 and 10, since she and her husband were arrested after a drug raid at their home.

In addition to the homicide charge, Ms. Korbe, 40, has been indicted on charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, possession of cocaine and crack, assault with a dangerous weapon, aiding and abetting and using a firearm during a crime of violence.'

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'A Beech Island woman who seemed to mentally snap and stab her husband and father has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Angela Glass admitted to stabbing her husband and pleaded guilty to assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. She had originally been charged with assault and battery with intent to kill.

On April 17, 2006 Aiken County Sheriff's Office responded to a Beech Island address, they saw Glass' husband and father with knife wounds. When they found Glass, she told officers "I stabbed him."

During subsequent evaluations and interviews, Glass was believed to have been hearing voices, seeing visions, she talked about being god, then changed to being Satan, according to testimony. She also hallucinated about being pregnant.

Both the husband and father refused to press charges stating that they knew their daughter/wife was not in a right state of mind.'

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'(AP) Women working in the federal government still earn less than their male counterparts, but the pay gap is shrinking.

The difference between average annual salary for men and women in the federal work force declined from 19 cents to 11 cents on the dollar between 1998 and 2007, according to a draft report from the Government Accountability Office.
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All but 7 cents of the gap can be accounted for by differences in measurable factors, such as differences in education levels and the type of jobs men and women had, the report said. The gap narrowed the more men and women shared characteristics, including the jobs held, levels of experience and education.'

Justin Trottier was kind enough to interview yours truly for his on-line Equalism web site, http://www.equalismactivism.com/. Justin is also the exec. director of the Center for Inquiry, Toronto chapter. The interview can be found here.

Regarding the introduction on the podcast page though, I just want to point out that I didn't help organize the 2007 Boys and the Boy Crisis Conference, since by then I had relocated from the area, but I was involved in organizing the previous two MR conferences. MANN's own Tom G. was the organizer of the 2007 conference and he was one heck of a one-man band at it, too.

I also want to encourage people to listen to the archived interviews as well, as there is a lot of good commentary and insight available in all of them.

As for my interview, well, I'll be signing mp3's in the lobby. ;)