GUEST ARTICLE...
by Glenn Sacks
In Defense of David Harris
A
murder trial recently concluded in Texas wherein a woman who killed
her husband was defended by the husband's own mother, brother and
father, who explained that, aside from what might be described as some
unpleasantness on a bad day, the woman is really a good, law-abiding
person.
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GUEST ARTICLE...
by Larry Pesavento
Men and the Military
I have
been struggling this whole past year with the question of how does a
healthy, initiated man respond to the call for war. How does he
respond as a combatant. How does he respond as an elder who may be
asked to guide a young soldier.
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GUEST ARTICLE...
by Rod Van Mechelen
Manly Virtues:
Becoming the Men Who Make
Women Feel Perfectly Safe
It
was hard to deny their denunciation of all things male because,
spurious studies of ideological origin aside, on the face of it so
much of what they claim appeared to be true. Virtually all prosecuted
criminals are men. For millennia, men have taken up arms to make war.
Men murder, fight, rape, create and lead oppressive regimes. Men level
mountains, pave over forests, year-after-year American men don orange
garb and, armed with rifles and beer, tramp out into the woods to kill
Bambi. Indeed, testosterone became all but synonymous with
poison.
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JEFF'S LIFE... monthly
column by Jeff Stimpson
On Alert
For the first time since it established
the color-code system of grading alerts for possible terrorism, the
government has issued a list for home preparedness in the event of
biological or chemical attack. I haven't seen it -- I printed one but
I can't find it -- but I believe the bulk of the list is similar to
preparedness lists for snowstorms: food, bottled water, candles,
batteries, radios, flashlights, extra clothing, Band Aids (that last
item sort of reminding me of our whole Terror Alert System).
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COYOTE...
monthly column by Dick Prosapio
Duck or Shop?
I lived in Chicago during World War
ll. and we were kept on alert from 1942 until late '44 by air raid
drills. I know, it sounds ridiculous doesn't it? Were the Germans
really going to manage to fly all the way from Europe to Mid America
to drop incendiary bombs on South Chicago neighborhoods? Well, they,
those running the show at the top, said we had to be prepared, so we
had drills. This wasn't like the Blitz in England you understand and
it sounds utterly crazy now, but this is what they did. Every now and
then, and I can't tell you how often, but maybe every two months or
so, a small plane would fly over our neighborhood and drop a cardboard
cylinder with a paper streamer attached. The color of the streamer
told you what kind of bomb had been dropped and, thus, what kind of
action we had to take.
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Archive
THE NEW
INTIMACY...
monthly column by
Judith Sherven, Ph.D. and James
Sniechowski, Ph.D.
What Does She Want From Me?
We're going to let you in on a
closely guarded secret. Why? Because for too long men have been seen
as the problem in relationships. The myth is that women are the ones
who are emotionally available and skilled with intimacy. It's simply
not true. Women are just as limited and confused about love as men. In
fact, many if not most women are allergic to genuine love, preferring
instead the fantasy of "true romance."
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