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Prager University Video Covers the War on Boys
We've covered the war on men in education but that begins early with the war on boys. In this new video, Prager University offers some ideas for reform.
War on Boys
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What ever happened to letting "boys be boys?" Take these two cases: In one, a seven-year-old boy was sent home for...


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Snakes and cockroaches
On a recent lonely night while my husband was away, a giant cockroach attacked me. It buzzed hideously in my ear before I leapt up, dancing a jig of horror as I kicked and twisted about, scraping my fingers through my hair and down my back.
When it crawled out from beneath the throw I had thrown, I chased and killed the thing – mainly to prevent its retreat down the hall toward my sleeping children. Then for half an hour I glanced furtively at its mutilated body every few seconds from a safe distance, extending a shaky hand to scoop it up with paper towels, but recoiling every time, shuddering. I had this terrifying notion that a cockroach-zombie apocalypse would begin that night in my living room. The moment I lifted the insect's mangled remains, it would reanimate into something unsquashable and eat my brain.
I begged my spastic Yorkie to come and offer me moral support, but that terrier is obviously a wimp and no friend in troubled times. So I thought of my mother and a certain summer encounter with a snake. How I needed her bravery!
In the telling of this episode of my childhood, I feel a tad guilty, for I remember distinctly our dad telling my siblings and me to help mom in the garden.
Instead, we kids were lying about, preferring boredom to effort, when mom burst through the front door and cried, "Oh, s–t! There's a copperhead in the garden!"
All four of us froze in horror, not too much of a stretch for our lazy bodies. But it wasn't the presence of a snake that got us. It was the word which had escaped our virtuous mother's lips. My sister Vinca finally stuttered, "Wha-wha-what did you say?"
Mom cut straight to the point in wide-eyed frenzy, "I need something…anything! I've got to kill it!"
Unfortunately, she spotted the rifle on the living room shelf and ran out of the house with it and the ammunition. My brother Nate was close on her heels, urging her to let him shoot it. (He had actually handled it and was a good shot.)
"Stand back, all of you!" mom ordered.
After promptly doing so, we kids watched as our mother blasted not only the bean plants, but the corn and tomatoes as well. The iniquitous reptile, however, was found unscathed and had hardly moved from its original position.
Having depleted the sparse ammunition, mom yelled desperately, "Get me rocks! Bring me rocks! I need something to throw at it!"
We made a munitions line to the flower bed, and thus began bombardment with stones. My sister Annie dragged an enormous rock from the flower bed wall, laughing and winking at me and Nate as she lugged it between her legs. Our mother, still powered by adrenaline, lifted the considerable weight over her head and hurled it like Jillian Michaels in the general direction of the bean plants.
But the snake survived, though it had lost much of its cover. Our flattened garden was a sad testimony to the presence of the cold-blooded creature. Mom decided the time had come for close combat. She marched to the side of the house, grabbed the hoe propped there and returned to where she had first encountered the copperhead while kneeling in its proximity. She then quickly and precisely chopped off its head. Always the lady, she refrained from putting it on a pike at the edge of the garden to warn other serpents.
She was her usual calm self when dad returned home that evening, and we kids were impatient to relate the story of "our" adventure. We met him at the car, and mom stood behind us with folded arms as we all spoke at once. Somewhere in the telling, one of us burst out with, "And mama said a bad word. She said the s-word!"
"I did not," mom spoke firmly.
"But, mom, you did!" said Nate. "When you came in the house!"
"I would never say that word." Her voice was very quiet, and her large eyes were narrowed. We didn't dare contradict her.
Not until she went back into the house. Then we all turned to dad and began whispering, "She said it, daddy. She really did."
Dad was skinning the miscreant, very pregnant snake in the driveway. His pale green eyes were bright with amusement as he replied, "I believe you. But it's our secret, okay? Don't make your mama angry."
There was no one around to hear my unladylike mumblings during my psychological battle against the undead cockroach. Finally, I snatched the carcass from the floor and sealed it in a plastic bag, inspired just enough by the memory of my mother's beheading of the snake.
And the next time I saw an enormous cockroach in my home? Well, I glared at it for some time. Then I told it not to stuff itself, said goodnight, turned off the light and retreated to bed.
Sometimes, it's easier to admit that you're more like your Yorkie and less like your valiant mother.
– Hillary Ibarra
Hillary Ibarra has had several humor pieces published on Aiming Low and humorwriters.org. She has dreams of playing the banjo, living in Jane Austen's childhood home and writing for more than spam artists and 50 loyal readers, but can't seem to find them in the laundry. She is the mysterious blogger at No Pens, Pencils, Knives or Scissors. In her spare time she likes to threaten to sell her children to the zoo, and their little dog, too.
Hugging Santa Rosa
I am a lout and a clown — at least that's what my daughter Sara thinks whenever we are in public. So I'm on my best behavior when we're together. I rein in my corny jokes, inquisitiveness, loud voice and tendency to mispronounce words.
She moved to Germany, and I went on 10-day visit. When I arrived, she took me to lunch. It seemed more like a bakery than a real restaurant, but I found out later that this was a typical German eatery. You order these little sandwiches that are already made from a display case. There's cheese, or cheese with ham, cheese with chicken, cheese with turkey. That was it. I'm on a lifelong diet — bread and cheese are not what I eat, so I viewed these choices with dismay. The waitress didn't speak English. I asked Sara to translate and see if I could have my sandwich on rye, with no butter or mayonnaise. Sara looked at me sternly, "Mom, I don't think they do it that way here. The sandwiches are already made."
"Oh, okay, but could you at least tell her not to put the tea bag in the pot. I can't take tea that's too strong."
"Mom, just accept what's given to you," she whispered with an urgency that shut me up. I ate half the sandwich obsessed with the fact that Sara doesn't have a scale in her house. The one thing I hate about traveling is the amount of weight I gain.
After we ate, I looked for a bathroom. Sara pointed downstairs. I climbed down these steep narrow steps and went through a series of hallways. I looked at one door that said "Damen." My mind registered "The Men." so I pushed open the other door. It happened to be the fire escape exit and a loud bell started ringing. People started running down stairs. German sounds along with gesticulating fingers surrounded me. I returned to the table hardly able to look my daughter in the eye.
When I asked Sara if I could get a doggie bag for the rest of my sandwich, she hissed "Mom, they don't do that here. You're expected to eat the whole meal and no one says doggie bag — even in America!"
For the rest of the trip, I ate what was given to me and tried my best not to make a spectacle of myself. If we went out to dinner, I still got frowns of disapproval from my daughter when I brought along some potato chips to nibble with my drink or tried to smuggle some food out in a plastic bag. But for the most part, I was quiet and reserved, blending into the stern Teutonic culture.
My 10 days are up! I meet my husband at the airport terminal on Mendocino Avenue. I hug him, but I really want to hug the ground, the buildings, the city of Santa Rosa. He rushes me off to Lyons. No fancy stuff for me — I want no-nonsense, family style food.
As I enter the restaurant, my voice is deliberately several decibels louder than usual. But I have immunity. No one turns around and stares. There's no grim disapproval.
A glass of Chardonnay floats into my hand. It's in an outrageously large glass, a whole three quarters full. My little bag of peanuts from the plane shamelessly appears, and I munch away. I survey the cornucopia-like menu: Turkey Special, Southwestern Shrimp Salad, Chicken Strips, Tri Tip Platter, BBQ Ribs, Atlantic Salmon.
The waitress arrives. Smiling broadly, she asks how we're doing. I gush as I tell her all about my trip and how happy I am to be back. She smiles and chats with me. My garrulousness doesn't phase her — she's just serving a normal American customer.
I pepper her with questions. Are the steaks really good or just so so? What about the ribs? How popular is the salmon? Could she repeat all the different kinds of salad dressing? Are the pies freshly made with real fruit?
I order a top sirloin, medium rare. Can she make sure there are ample onions, no butter on the French bread, substitute a salad for the potatoes, put the dressing on the side and bring some Worcester sauce? I ask for decaf coffee, one quarter coffee, the rest hot water. Is there any low-fat milk and brown sugar back there? Could she be sure to bring the coffee toward the end of the meal?
She cheerfully obliges. I know there's going to be a lot of food, but hey, no problem — they have doggie bags.
The wine eases me to lean back in my seat and survey the tacky non old-world ambiance. I bask in the garish plastic menus, fake wood paneling, booths with vinyl cushioning, air conditioner blasting away ignoring energy-saving precautions.
Dinner arrives. I dig in and gobble up. Freedom.
— Jean Wong
Jean Wong is an award-winning poet, memoir and fiction writer and her work has been produced by the 6th Avenue Playhouse, Petaluma Reader's Theater and Off The Page. Her book, Sleeping with the Gods, has been recently published. When writing Jean sometimes proceeds like a mule — other times a brilliant racehorse speeds. Whatever the process, she's amazed to be alive and telling the tale.
The pumpkin industrial complex
I recently received the October Trader Joe's print circular, the one that is for some reason illustrated with drawings of Edwardian shoppers telling jokes. The pamphlet's main purpose is to inform shoppers about all the latest additions to the grocery store's shelves and, as I leafed through, I noticed a new and disturbing trend.
Pumpkin, pumpkin everywhere. In baked goods, yes, but also in ravioli, and yogurt, and in creamed cheese and in moisturizing body butter. There are even pumpkin-flavored dog treats.
Do you remember how it was with pumpkin, as recently as five years ago? You would go to the supermarket for that one can of pumpkin puree needed for your contribution to the Thanksgiving dessert buffet. Half the time, they only had the big 28 oz. can, and your recipe only needed a cup of the orange paste, so you'd have leftovers to throw away. Or, since the grocery stores didn't want to stockpile it either, there would be a 2-for-1 deal on cans of pumpkin puree and you'd end up discovering that second can in the back of the kitchen pantry in July and wonder what else to do with it, besides a few quick bicep curls.
But those days are past. All of a sudden, pumpkin is as ubiquitous as open letters to Miley Cyrus. From the lattes at Starbucks to the Pumpkin Spice Hershey's Kisses (just threw up in my mouth a little) to the pumpkin pyramid-shaped end caps at Trader Joe's, Cucurbita pepo is everywhere.
How did this elevation of pumpkin's status, from lowly cobweb-in-cupboard gatherer to Main Dish, occur? I'm highly suspicious. Maybe it's because I'm finally reading Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma right now. It's gotten me so shook up that I have no choice but to blame the pumpkinization of our culture on the Pumpkin Industrial Complex.
Pollan explains in stomach-churning detail how the human relationship with another vegetable, corn, has evolved with the help of technology, commerce and science so that, and I'm paraphrasing here, we are now basically corn's bitch. We can barely keep up with the agricultural biomass monster we've created, so we breed things to eat corn and corn byproducts that normally wouldn't (cows, pigs, toddlers) just to not get buried by the next year's harvest. Who wins? Companies like ADM and Cargill, but mostly corn. Corn stopped reading the Farmer's Almanac years ago. This arrogant sonafabitch grain knows that if it were to rain grasshoppers and straight hydrochloric acid, America would still find a way to save corn. Because America needs its high fructose corn syrup and trans fatty acids.
I'm sure some ambitious pumpkins looked across the farm field one moonlit night and thought, stupid corn. We could do that. We could become pervasive. The big misshapen supersize pumpkins that look like Jabba the Squash, the adorable baby pumpkins that are sent home with first graders on field trips, and all the orange globes in between: they put their gourds together and decided they needed to diversify, and the Pumpkin Lobby was born.
Of course, we made it exceptionally easy for them to proceed with their takeover. How?
Every October, we carve mouths into them. Even corn was never given the ability to openly communicate the details of its uprising.
So when you hear a spooky whisper on your front porch in the waning days of October, don't automatically assume it's a trick-or-treater, or the wind. It could very well be Liam's pumpkin saying to Emma's: "So we're agreed. Next year: we conquer the potato chip flavoring aisle, with a flanking assault on the soda category. And in 2015: pumpkin wine."
Just don't say I didn't warn you.
— Nancy Davis Kho
Nancy Davis Kho is a writer in Oakland whose work has appeared in has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, EContent Magazine, The Rumpus and anthologies including Moms Are Nuts and Knowing Pains. An avid music fan, she writes about the years between being hip and breaking one at MidlifeMixtape.com, and was recently named a 2014 BlogHer Voice of the Year, as well as Oakland's inaugural Literary Death Match champ. She's currently finishing up a memoir about her midlife music crisis.
Food diary, my butt.
That's a paper trail.
Researching my weight loss program options for 2013, in yet another enthusiastic but short-lived attempt to lose the same 10 pounds I've been working on since 1974, I did a quick review of previous epic fails.
1. Jenny Craig. Tastes great, but portioned for a small gerbil. Jenny's Fish & Chips dinner entree would be more aptly named "Fish & CHIP." Kenny tried to take a bite of my breakfast sausage once and I burst into tears. This plan is not for couples who like to share.
2. Nutrisystem. Worst. Food. Ever. I should have clued in on the foil-wrapped entrees. Very space shuttle, with taste to match. Sorry Ms. Osmond, but I couldn't get hungry enough to eat this food.
3. HCG Drops. Supposed to make your body think it's pregnant (Who THINKS of this stuff??) Since I gained 65 pounds during my only pregnancy, this gets perilously close to what my son calls "Mom's dark place." Then I saw the 500 calories/day plan associated with the drops. 500 CALORIES PER DAY?? What do you do after breakfast? Sigh. Back on the shelf for you.
4. Low Carb. This one works, if you can live without bread. And rice. And wheat, potatoes, pasta, most fruits, ice cream, desserts, fried foods or alcohol. Yep, that's right. NO RED WINE. Positively uncivilized. And three days into it, I would have cheerfully traded my beloved Paco for a bagel. Buh-bye, Dr. Atkins.
5. Weight Watchers. Undeniably successful, if you like to spend your days searching recipes, grocery shopping, planning, cooking, counting and charting your progress. Not for the uncommitted. Or for those with a job.
This was getting discouraging, until I discovered an online article that reported higher weight loss by people who wrote down everything they ate during the day. WTH. Even I can do that. Happily printed off the form and started my food diary the next morning.
Breakfast: 2 slices bacon, 2 eggs, large cinnamon roll. Lunch: Nachos, extra guacamole. Afternoon snack: Peanut M&M's. (Hard to actually count, since they were in a bowl, but I did skip the nasty blue ones.) Dinner: Homemade lasagna, garlic bread. (No space provided for wine, so assuming they weren't asking for that.) Bedtime snack: Bowl of Lucky Charms with milk (skim…not like I'm not trying).
Two days later… Well, this is stupid. All I got was hand cramps from writing, and I didn't lose an ounce. I think I just have a slow metabolism.
— Vikki Claflin
Oregon writer Vikki Claflin writes the popular humor blog, Laugh Lines. Two recent pieces have been published in Life Well Blogged: Parenting Gag Reels — Hilarious Writes and Wrongs: Take 26. In 2014, she received a BlogHer Voice of the Year award for humor.
The last laugh
I can see it now. A huge tufted nightclub booth, upholstered in spotless linen, floating on a cloud in the sky. A group of chuckling comedians is seated at the heavenly table, kibitzing over a bowl of perfectly salted cocktail peanuts. The comedians scoot over to make room, because one more has arrived.
It's Joan Rivers.
Their earthly mission to make other people smile complete, Rivers, Williams, Belushi, Radner, Candy, Farley and other comedic legends, lounge comfortably with each other. Their laughter echoes softly in the stratosphere.
Funny people who have made it their life's work to make the rest of us laugh deserve a good seat in Heaven. Especially when you consider that, many of them did not have it so easy here on Earth.
Humor is a gift, but like the people who possess a good sense of it, it's often complicated. With a few exceptions, funny people tend to be complex individuals with insecurities and internal struggles, prone to over analysis and deep thinking about their own significance in the world.
Even though my life's work has been making sandwiches and cleaning toilets as a Navy housewife and mother of three, I can totally relate.
As a tubby little daydreamer, I discovered at a young age that humor was my ticket out of social mediocrity. Knowing that there was no way I was going to meet my parents' expectations for a slim, sophisticated, charming daughter, I began to secretly experiment with humor.
I loved to watch comedians like Flip Wilson, Soupy Sales, Carol Burnett, Bill Cosby, and my favorite, Jerry Lewis. I learned quickly that I could make people laugh by crossing my eyes, adopting a fake speech impediment, or using raisins to black out my teeth.
Self-deprecation seemed to be the most direct path to social acceptance, so I began poking fun at myself regularly. Initially, my parents did not find my new image funny at all, and made a last-ditch effort to get me back on the right track, signing me up for English horseback riding lessons and encouraging me to seek a serious career in business one day.
But it was already too late. By the end of my senior year in high school, I was elected 1984 Class Clown, making it official: I was the funny girl.
What I didn't realize then, aside from the fact that my reputation as a clown would prevent me from getting a decent date to the prom, was that people would expect me to be funny for the rest of my life. Having a sense of humor became my job, and I had to punch the clock through good times and bad.
Thankfully, humor helped me find my husband, also a funny guy, and raise three funny kids. Through 20 years of military moves, it helped us all make new friends. And my own witty observations about military life, marriage and parenting helped me put this column in print over five years ago.
Comedians spend their lives making people laugh despite enormous tragedy and private personal struggles. We praise them when they are funny, and ignore them when they are not. Then, when they die, we finally become curious about who they really were.
Robin Williams, who committed suicide last month at the age of 63, was a thoughtful person who suffered from bouts of devastating depression. Before her untimely death from cancer at age 43, Gilda Radner had a tough childhood, teased for being overweight and suffering the death of her beloved father when she was only a teenager. Chris Farley's need for attention from his 600-pound alcoholic father motivated his hilarious physical comedy. But despite his kind heart, Farley inherited his father's self-destructive tendencies, dying of a drug overdose at the age of 33, the same age as John Belushi when he died.
Joan Rivers was a comedic pioneer who could dish out the zingers, and take them, especially when it came to her multiple plastic surgeries. But behind the scenes, Rivers suffered personal tragedy when her beloved husband of 22 years, Edgar Rosenberg, committed suicide in 1987.
And the list goes on.
Clever, sensitive, deep-thinking, warm-hearted and sometimes self-destructive, funny people are complicated. We should not wait for them to die to appreciate that their multiple facets and personal struggles are exactly what make them interesting in the first place.
As Joan herself once said, "I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny."
— Lisa Smith Molinari
Lisa Smith Molinari won second place (under 100,000 monthly visitors) in the online/multimedia category of the 2013 National Society of Newspaper Columnists' competition. She was a finalist in the Robert Benchley Society Annual Humor Writing Contest that same year. Her work has been published in The Washington Post, several anthologies, various magazines, websites and other publications. Her blog, "The Meat and Potatoes of Life," is an expanded version of a weekly newspaper column that runs in military and civilian newspapers.
A hill of coffee beans
The house, it is dusty and riddled with dog hair tumble weeds. The dogs themselves, they scootch on the floor as their anal glands must be expressed and the vet bill…oh…the vet bill — hence the incessant scootching. For alas, there are no spare funds for such frivolities as anal gland expression. Expressment?
Don't ask me.
So, I drink. I drink of the sweet elixir of the Goddess Caffeina. Sweet, other worldly bitterness tempered by milky splendor.
The laundry, how its numbers grow exponentially. The dishes, how they stack up in an unrepentant sink.
I drink.
Grocery lists, teacher's gifts, cards to send, emails to answer, calls to return…drinking all the while.
Housewifery is not rocket science and sure, I'm not workin' in a coal mine…
Woop! About to sip down.
The job of a housewife is an oft thankless, tiresome one, though I wouldn't trade it for the world.
Okay, I'm lying. I wouldn't trade my husband and kids or the dogs, but if you're offering a record contract, I'll gladly throw in the tea towel. After all…maids need jobs, too.
So, I have a drinking problem I guess. Well actually…it's not much of a problem.
But in the absence of Calgon, I choose caffeine to take me away from all this. To whisk me away to the Columbian Elysian Fields that promise my domestic freedom. If only for a moment.
Sweet, sweet serenity and lucidity…one sip at a time.
Fair Trade.
This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
— Linda Roy
Linda Roy is a humorist/writer/musician living in New Jersey with her husband and two boys. Her blog elleroy was here is a mix of humor and music she likes to refer to as "funny with a soundtrack." She's managing partner and editor-in-chief at the political satire and pop culture website Lefty Pop and was named a 2014 BlogHer Voice of the Year. Her work has appeared at The Huffington Post, Humor Outcasts, In the Powder Room, Aiming Low, Mamapedia, BonBon Break, Midlife Boulevard, Funny Not Slutty, Sprocket Ink and The Weeklings. When she's not writing, she's fronting the Indie/Americana band Jehova Waitresses. Connect with her on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+ and Bloglovin'.
My selfie treasure
I was visiting my daughter and my grandkids when my first selfie fiasco took place. I'd had two glasses of wine before bedtime to relax from all the excitement of the day. I blame the wine for what happened next.
Have you seen the commercial where a husband is going away and his young daughters have colored paintings for Daddy? Mommy has her own special gift and sneaks daddy something to watch later. She winks and smiles. He looks confused, but then he smiles, as his eyebrows raise, understanding the gift. It captured my attention. When my daughter went to bed I sat, sipping my wine, thinking about that commercial. I decided I was going to take a sexy selfie and send it to my husband.
I giggled with excitement as I headed to the bathroom. I lifted up my top to expose my bodacious Ta-tas (that had to be the wine talking) as I smiled at my reflection and SNAP! I took the pic. I decided the first one was much too serious. It wasn't as fun as I'd planned. So I hiked up my shirt again, gave my best sexy smile, took a sip of wine and SNAP! Once again, not the look I envisioned. I gulped more wine and pondered my choices for a seducing look.
I'd heard from friends that after fifty the camera is much kinder if you look up into the lens. I decided to try that. Again, my bodacious Ta-tas were bared as I cooed for the camera and SNAP! This one passed the test. I sent him the pic. "You are one sexy lady, Anne!" I told myself smiling in the mirror. "Cheers, Baby!"
Next morning my husband called and he didn't mention my beautiful sexy pic so I asked him if he liked it. "What picture?" he asked seriously.
"My beautiful sexy pic I sent you last night," I responded quietly so my daughter wouldn't hear me.
"I didn't get a pic of you."
"Come on, check your phone. I sent it at midnight. Go look."
He got back on the phone…."No pic," he informed me.
Oh no! Where did I send it? I should have known better because I have not mastered all of the gizmos on my phone. In fact, we are enemies. All sorts of apps open and close, my ringer changes, Bluetooth goes on when it feels like it. I don't even have a Bluetooth. Now I was in a panic. Mental note to self: DO NOT mix wine and the phone, much less the camera again.
I was hoping I didn't get the numbers confused (like that ever happens to me!…weekly) and send it to my son. Their phone numbers are very close. "OMG you have to call him! NO! Don't call him, he'll look at his phone and he might see the message," I rambled to my husband. "Go over to his house immediately." I begged. Beads of sweat were forming all over my body.
Matters got worse. I had to ask my daughter to see if she could tell where the pic got sent. "Ummmm Erika, I kind of had fun last night and "just for fun" I sent Dad a pic of myself…like in that commercial." I started slowly.
"What commercial?" she asked. I explained
When she got the gist of it she shrieked and screamed, "Mom, what did you do???"
"Well, it's not so bad, really. I just took a bodacious Ta-ta selfie and sent it to your father, for fun. You know, just for fun."
"OMG! What did he say when he saw it?"
"Well, there's a smidge of a problem. It didn't get to him. Can you look at my phone and see who I sent it to?" I begged. I tried to remain calm and not let my fear show.
She looked horrified. "What? You didn't put it on Facebook did you?"
I assured her, "Of course not, but I'd taken my glasses off when I was cooing. I was sipping wine and having so much selfie fun, who knows where I sent it."
"Cooing? You were cooing? In my bathroom at midnight?!?" She rolled her eyes like I was an unfit mother. "It was just for fun," I repeated.
I jumped in the shower while she searched my phone. When I came out, she was on speaker phone with her sister. I overheard them talking about my selfie.
"She did what???? OMG, they're too old for this!" Jamie shrieked.
"It gets worse. Did she send it to you?" she inquired. "Oh and mom coos." She added.
"Why would she send it me? I don't need to see her boobs! Mom coos?!?!?"
"She calls them her bodacious Ta-tas now, not boobs." Jamie choked.
My 3-year-old granddaughter liked that word. She pranced around the room singing Ta-tas over and over again.
"Look," I yelled, "Just make sure your brothers didn't get it, okay? And you better check Facebook!"
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As I walked across the room on a cool spring night, I looked at the action in progress. Scores of teenagers flew by me, clad in oversized sparkly glasses, hats and colorful socks. They sprinted from photo booths to the kid's lounge, depositing their goods procured from hyped up, jacked-up DJ dancers hired to tantalize and titillate the crowd.
Around the room and on the dance floor, a phalanx of well-heeled, well dressed suburbanites gossiped, guffawed and gyrated. It was another Saturday night on the Bar/Bat Mitzvah circuit when the cares of daily life could be easily tossed off like a suit jacket or highly embellished shawl. We were here to celebrate and inebriate.
I chuckled to myself. As a creative sort and closeted writer, I thought there may be a thousand stories in the naked city, but there are just as many here tonight. Couples on the verge of divorce canoodling like honeymooners. Backslapping and back-handed compliments from boozed-up carpoolers. My mind raced with the possibility of a surreal suburban sitcom in the making. Next stop… HBO.
I entered the line waiting at the bar. Bartenders feverishly filled martini orders. Bottle caps flew into trash cans. They shook and mixed to the beat of the music, plying the unwavering throng's thirst. It was like the Roaring 20's all over again, only with people pushing 50 fast.
Because the party ended in less than an hour, my wife and I had switched to diet and club sodas. The days of testing the speed limits and the law were long gone. Parents, homeowners, people liable and reliable, we knew when to turn the tap and spigot off. The buzz might be gone but the fuzz was not going to pull us over.
The couple in front of me teetered and tottered in unison. With no intent of slowing down as the night was coming to a close, they were bellying up to the bar for more booze, more banter. Throwing back the shots and one-liners in rapid-fire motion, they were all in until the very last song… or until the bar closed.
I knew them casually from my daughter's school, having heard about their big-party ways. Friendly, loud, out there, I wondered how they managed to be themselves in the insular community in which we lived. Part of me wanted to join in, partaking in their reverie and irreverence; part of me just wanted to take the drinks, grab my keys and go.
Just as I was about to place my non-alcoholic order, the women spun toward me. Locking her eyes on mine with a searing focus, she pounced, grabbing my lapels in her hot, sweaty hands. With her hair extensions whipping my face, her body firmly pressed against mine, she whispered drunkenly and suggestively into my ear.
"I want to climb you like a mountain."
And with that, she spun, grabbed her drink and was off.
I was transfixed, unable to move left or right, forward or back. What started as a temperance run was suddenly an invitation to debauchery. This Magic Mike moment was something unfathomable to me. Oy! I had been compromised at a Bat Mitzvah.
My college roommate would have jumped on this without hesitation, leading the woman to a dimly lit stairwell or a nearby utility closet. No remorse, only primal lust. I was not such a guy. I was happily married… plus, I was holding my wife's Diet Coke in my wedding-band hand. What kind of guy was I?
And then a Cheshire smile erupted from ear to the ear she whispered in. I had been given the gift that keeps on giving. No, not the rekindling of lost youth or a shot of ego-inducing adrenaline. But rather the writer's gift of a story for the ages.
At every cocktail party, funeral or school function, I could recount that moment. When that lady crossed the proverbial line between good and bad-girl behavior, making me the happy recipient of one of the greatest lines of my life. For years, it could make people laugh, pondering the different outcomes, the various interpretations. It would be relayed to others from cul-de-sac to cul-de-sac… a suburban myth for the ages.
"I want to climb you like a mountain."
As I walked back to my table, I faced a dilemma worthy of Solomon. Should I keep this to myself or sing like a canary from the mountaintops? The woman's reputation… was I putting that on the line? I took a moment to consider it all. The answer was clear.
"What took you so long? Did something happen?"
I looked longingly and lovingly at my wife.
"Honey, do I have a story for you!"
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Based on the remains, experts estimate the ancient city covered an area of about three square kilometers. There are still pieces of walls as high as four meters at the site.
The location of the ancient city should have been carefully selected and it can be dated prior to the late period of the Liangzhu culture (about 4,150 to 5,250 years ago), according to Liu Bin, a research fellow with the bureau.
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Feb 12, Colombo: Former Sri Lankan batsman and captain Marvan Atapattu has been appointed as the assistant coach of the Sri Lanka team.
He will assume the post in addition to his current position as batting coach.
His salary has also been increased to Rs. 600,000 per month with the promotion, Sri Lanka Cricket says.
Atapattu has already worked as the batting coach of Sri Lanka team for more than a year.
Atapattu, 42, played 90 tests and 268 ODIs for Sri Lanka scoring six double hundreds in his Test career and amassing over 10,000 runs over both form of the game.
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Contradictions beset the U.S. war over Iraq and Syria. The principal target ISIS wouldn't even exist but for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, and al-Qaeda affiliates in Syria have benefited from defections of U.S.-backed "moderates." But now warplanes and missiles are supposed to fix things, says ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.
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The political imperative to "do something" against the brutal Islamic State has brought President Obama and congressional majorities together on a plan for a limited U.S. military response, but this strategy could actually make matters worse, says the Independent Institute's Ivan Eland.
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From the Archive: As Scots vote on independence from Great Britain, part of the motivation for those voting "aye" is the brutal history of English repression of Scottish freedom, dating back centuries but fresh in the minds of many Scots, a lesson about unintended consequences of violence that should be remembered by today's politicians, as…
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Exclusive: A problem with President Obama's plan to expand the war against ISIS into Syria was always the risk that Syrian air defenses might fire on U.S. warplanes, but now a source says Syria's President Assad has quietly agreed to permit strikes in some parts of Syria, reports Robert Parry.
PRISM's Controversial Forerunner
From the Archive: Richard L. Fricker, a courageous journalist and frequent writer at Consortiumnews, died on Sept. 12 from heart failure. Among Fricker's important work was his investigation of the U.S. government's PROMIS software which preceded the NSA's Orwellian PRISM, as Fricker noted last July.
Dishing Up International Law a la Carte
Official Washington honors international law when it's politically useful, such as in condemning a global adversary, but then dismisses it as useless if it gets in the way of some desired U.S. action. This "international law a la carte" undermines the concept's fundamental value, says Lawrence Davidson.
Perfecting 'Regime Change' in Ukraine
The Obama administration has refined the practice of "regime change," moving away from old-fashioned tanks in the street or overt invasions by U.S. troops, opting instead for "democracy promotion" that relies on "information warfare" to unseat elected governments disfavored by Washington, says Ted Snider.
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Bombing ISIS amounts to attacking a symptom rather than finding a cure. But the cure would require addressing politically sensitive issues, such as Israel oppressing Palestinians and Saudi Arabia financing Islamic extremism. So the U.S. does what it knows best – blowing stuff up – as Nat Parry observes.


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Cameroonian stowaway dies on Paris-bound flight By YUH TIMCHIA in Yaoundé | Tuesday, April 9 2013 at 13:56
A man died after stowing away in the undercarriage of a France-bound plane from Cameroon.
A statement from Cameroon's national carrier, Camair, on whose Boeing 767 the stowaway made the over 6-hour flight on Monday, said his lifeless body was found in the plane's landing gear when it touched down at the Charles de Gaulle international airport in Paris.
It is still unclear where the man slipped into the plane which left Cameroon's economic capital Douala for the capital Yaoundé from where it took off for France.
The airliner said it has opened a probe together with French and Cameroon security services to find out how the man, whose identity is not yet known, found himself in the landing gear compartment.
Camair said the man was in his thirties even though French media reported that French authorities said he looked like a teenager between 15 and 17 years old.
An autopsy was to be conducted on Tuesday to ascertain the cause of death, French media have reported.
On Monday the AFP quoted a French official close to the case as saying the stowaway could have frozen to death.
Each year thousands of young Cameroonians seek to leave the country, fleeing hardship.
In July 2002 a 34-year-old Cameroonian was found dead in the landing gear compartment of an Air France plane which flew into Paris from Rio de Janeiro.
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Fairplex Park set a record for total handle during its 16-day run in 2006 that ended Sept. 25 when it averaged more than $7.1 million daily. It was the second straight year the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds racetrack surpassed its previous handle mark and the third time in the past four years."All the stars aligned correctly for the second year in a row," said George Bradvica, Fairplex's racing manager. "We had the best weather, the best field size, the best jockey colony, and the safest racetrack we've ever had. The fair was the story. It is very strong (in attendance) this year. That really helps."This year's final all-source handle figure was $113,919,743, up .26% over 2005's total of $113,624,214.In spite of the continued strong figures, Bradvica said Fairplex has backed away from a $100 million renovation plan "until there's a decision made on the future of Hollywood Park." The project would include expanding the five-eighths track to one mile and adding an inside turf course.On-track handle dipped by 0.5% in spite of a slight 1.1% increase in attendance. Out-of-state wagering jumped 3.4%, however, to fuel the overall increase.The gain could largely be attributed to a record three-day pick six carryover that concluded Sept. 20 with a $3,941,142 million pool. Fairplex set a single-day record when $10,390,081 was wagered."That's the best marketing plan you can have – a three-day carryover," Bradvica said.Average field size was 8.31 horses per Thoroughbred race. Fairplex can accommodate no more than 10 runners per race. He said owners and trainers were encouraged to run their horses because of the excellent condition of the running surface. He credited track superintendent Steve Wood for that.Mel Stute, Fairplex's all-time leading trainer, saddled 30-1 longshot Quick Little Miss to an upset victory in the $130,000 Barretts Debutante for 2-year-old fillies Sept. 16. One day later it was Mel's son, Gary Stute, who sent Roman Commander out to post a 30-1 shocker in the $130,000 Barretts Juvenile.
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Rebels battling Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces have in recent weeks attempted to retake several areas along the porous border that would allow them to smuggle weapons and fighters between Lebanon and Syria.
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