Article here. Excerpt:

'New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is planning a campaign to encourage men at high risk of AIDS to get circumcised in light of the World Health Organization’s endorsement of the procedure as an effective way to prevent the disease.

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta is just beginning to convene meetings and design studies to help it formulate a national policy, New York City is moving ahead on its own.'

Predictable, and very unfortunate. So with this hair-trigger reactive policy making, MGM gets new life breathed into it just as we were making progress at stopping it. They are saying they will target the effort to 'high-risk' groups. But I think we know what is actually happening here-- if MGM gets a cachet of "medical necessariness" re-instilled into it, we are sure to see efforts to ban its infliction upon infants stymied. Again, one could make the same case for FGM being useful in this fashion as well, but no one would dare.

Story here. Truth is stranger than fiction. Excerpt:

'Lorelei Josephine Corpuz, 30, lived for more than a year as a 17-year-old boy named "Mark," according to papers filed in Everett District Court.

As "Mark," Corpuz persuaded the girl's family to let "Mark" live in their home as the girl's boyfriend. Corpuz claimed to be an orphan, police alleged.

It wasn't until police arrested Corpuz on Sunday on an unrelated matter that the girl and her family learned that "Mark" was a woman - and almost twice the age they were led to believe, according to court papers.

That's when officers were told that Corpuz allegedly had beaten and sexually assaulted the girl.'

Essay here.

Another update on NOW's assine lawsuit. I predict many more will expose Gandy's hypocrisy. Helen Ubinas makes some outstanding observations. Excerpt:

"The government has spent billions of dollars over the years on welfare-to-work job training programs that, if not specifically limited to women, benefit women almost exclusively. Women are specifically targeted for nutrition education in a variety of programs, including the federal Women Infants and Children program."

Article here. Excerpt:

"Democrats face long odds in their effort to revive an Equal Rights Amendment that failed three decades ago, even if unisex bathrooms are no longer much of a fear factor.
...
A proliferation of female doctors, lawyers and stockbrokers and the fact that women now receive nearly 60 percent of college degrees show that women don't need an ERA to succeed, she added."

Girl hits cop with car. Girl drives off. Girl goes home. Girl googles her situation to find news reports. Girl finds news article on her hit-and-run, finds a comment thread, and confesses to what she did apparently thinking she'd get away with it. Happily the police tracked her down via her IP address, giving us one spoiled little princess with a vewwy vewwy grumpy booking photo.

The snapper?

Five thousand dollars bond; 0 dollars required. She walked hours later, without paying a dime.

She's a girl, see. And she's really, really sorry. She said so! Look how sad she is! Awwwwwww!

How many of us Y chromosome bearers could pull off a stunt like that and not be quietly beaten to death with telephone books before the clock struck midnight?

Fark commentary, replete with original thread link

Story here. Excerpt:

"An Urbandale woman facing murder charges following the death of a toddler in her care has been ordered to stay away from her teenage son if she is released from jail on bond, according to a restraining order issued Friday.

Lucinda Winger, 40, was arrested Thursday evening on charges of first-degree murder and child endangerment in connection with the death of Joey Atkinson, who was found unresponsive in Winger's in-home child care facility in Urbandale on Feb. 28.

The 20-month-old child was rushed to the hospital with a serious skull fracture; he was declared brain dead the next day."

Link to newsletter here. Excerpt:

'There have been several responses to this from the fathers' movement:

1) I debated Cynthia Brown on FOX News' nationally-syndicated Morning Show with Mike and Juliet on Tuesday--to watch, click here. Also see below for more information.

2) In the Associated Press article, Mike McCormick, Executive Director of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, pointed out that this campaign to humiliate child support debtors can also be very humiliating for their children.

3) On Friday, Fathers 4 Justice US protested against one of the pizzerias which is putting the "deadbeat" posters on their boxes--see below for more information.

4) Yesterday, Stephen Baskerville, president of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, debated Brown on CNN. I don't know of video being available yet, but when/if it is I will post it on my blog.'

The BBC reports here with an opinion piece that seems incredibly sexist. Basically it's a hunt to find where women are being hard-done by in being excluded from male-only clubs. The entire tone of the piece is sexist, for example:

"In the ancient world all-male societies and festivals were common. And there was even the odd all-female event too." No mention of matriarchal societies, of course.

It's not until halfway through the article that they admit (almost sheepishly) that there are many female-only clubs, but in typical BBC style the headlines and intro are all one-sided (us evil evil men!)

You can comment on the piece, and the comments are worth reading - most support the idea that one-gender clubs are acceptable, even if the women are typically scathing of our reasons to want to be separated. The stereotypes abound; women want to be in their single-sex-club locales to avoid lecherous men hassling them, whereas us men want to be in our single-sex-clubs so we can belch, fart and generally be rude and obnoxious...

Watch the story here. She was a gang member suspected in as many as 50 shootings, a leader in one of the most violent and predatory gangs in her city. And a lady, too! Good heavens! Send this to anyone who thinks a woman isn't capable of ruthless, calculated violence, or exercising leadership in the context thereof.

Article here. Excerpt:

"Women make similar trade-offs all the time. Surveys have shown for years that women tend to place a higher priority on flexibility and personal fulfillment than do men, who focus more on pay. Women tend to avoid jobs that require travel or relocation, and they take more time off and spend fewer hours in the office than men do. Men disproportionately take on the dirtiest, most dangerous and depressing jobs."

Story here. Excerpt:

'Mar 29, 2007 - The "countdown to release" is on for the man who's spent more than two decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

There is hope that Anthony Capozzi could be a free man as soon as Friday. Local lawmakers have stepped up the pressure to speed up the process to set Capozzi free now that there's DNA proof he was wrongfully convicted of two rapes in Delaware Park back in the 1980s.'

Article here. NOW's attack on father's rights continues. My legal knowledge is admittedly weak. My question: Can NOW actually win this lawsuit? Excerpt:

"The complaints cite 34 programs, including one run by the District and two others in the Washington area, that, they say, do not offer the services to women. That, the groups say, violates Title IX, the law that prevents sex discrimination in federally funded education programs and is best known for forcing universities to offer comparable sports programs for men and women."

Topic page here.

A three minute discussion on "Fox and Friends" on why girls are doing better in school. My problem with the video is not so much about the information provided, but rather it didn't appear the disparity was taken seriously. In fact, there was a lot of joking involved. There was no discussion on how to solve the problem.

To view the video, scroll down to "Education On Fox News Channel". The title is "Education expert on why women are beating men in college performance."
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Ed. note: Check out those other vids, too, esp. Sen. Kay Hutchison on those "separate but equal" single-sex classrooms.

Story here. Excerpt:

"Heather Nicole Miller, 22, the girlfriend of the boy's father, told investigators she killed Isaiah Vargas Wednesday in her apartment. According to police, Miller said she grabbed his arm and pushed him into his bedroom after he refused to go.

"The defendant said she thought the victim fell down and struck his head on the floor," Detective Dominick Kaufman wrote in court paperwork. "The defendant then grabbed the victim and shook him."

A woman in Detroit was caught in a sting where she offered her daughter to an undercover agent for the purposes of child pornography and sex/molestation.

"This is truly a horrifying case," Sheriff Warren Evans said in a statement. "To think that a woman would offer up her own daughter in this way impossible to comprehend."

And yet, this is exactly what we are forced to comprehend. A mother (probably single - there is no mention of a father being present) is revealed as the biggest threat to her own children.