According to a recent NPR item, Thanksgiving could spell the end for many a relationship. So much, in fact, the day as been dubbed the turkey drop.
NPR.com published an article a few days ago titled, "Sex Without Intimacy: No Dating, No Relationships." We're all supposed to analyze whether or not stable, long-term, monogamous relationships are on the way out due to our casual college-like view of sex into adulthood.
It's been speculated more than once that Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are both gay, that they openly sleep with other people, and that the only reason they're together is so they can continue to get non-gay film roles. But it seems that Jada has had enough of the rumors. And in a new interview with National Public Radio, she addresses them head-on, stating: "I don't have an open marriage and no, we're not gay – and you don't trust that? Well then there's nothing that I really have to say to anybody about anything, because at the end of the day, I'm living my life, and I'm happy."
According to the Washington Post, sugar daddies are bearing a terrible cross now that the market has gone from black to red. "It's been incredibly stressful for me," one recently downsized man says. "I was so used to using my financial situation to leverage my dating." Now what is he supposed to do? Date non-gold diggers? Are they even pretty?
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In many families, brothers from different mothers (or fathers) never give a second thought to the "half" nature of their relationship. Not so with Cindy McCain and half-sister Kathleen Hensley Portalski. The pair, daughters of Jim Hensley, founder of the beer company that Cindy oversees, sit on opposite sides of the political fence. In an interview with US Weekly, Portalski voiced her support for Barack Obama, saying that she and her half-sister share different political viewpoints. Portalski, whose mother was Hensley's first wife, described Cindy as "standoffish" to the weekly. She also said the potential First Lady had never made efforts to reconcile a relationship, though there was no mention of what the original beef between the two had been.
NPR's segment on the trend among young people to see condomless sex as "engagement 2.0" raised interesting points as it pissed off listeners.
