You can find pot, condoms, and topless women at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York's Zuccotti Park. In an article yesterday, the New York Post painted a picture of debauchery among the protests, filled with homeless looking for free food and young people getting down in sleeping bags.
How often are you sitting down with your family to eat dinner during the week? You know, Crooklyn style with all the rowdy kids gathered together, husband and even the dog set around the table chatting, eating, bonding (or arguing). Well, if you don't do it often, today, September 26, is Family Day — A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children.
Playboy Playmates are known for being bastions of class and social distinction, but sometimes something in them snaps and they go bad.
What a difference a few years makes. "New Cures for Depression" shouted the 1986 essay in New Woman magazine; "Dramatic Progress against Depression," blared a New York Times Magazine piece in 1990. Its subtitle was revealing: "The success of new drugs is prompting debate on their overuse—and the value of talk therapy." That story smugly said that the new wave of antidepressants, including the then two-year old Prozac, which took the country by storm, had "proved to be as effective as the older ones and often safer." What's more, the article went on to say that these amazing new drugs worked when old-fashioned talk therapy didn't. Psychotherapy was relegated to the dustbin of history.
A test for date rape drugs may soon be available so women can learn in real-time if their drinks have been spiked. All a boozer has to do is dip the test into the drink and the test tells you whether it's been roofied with either GHB or ketamine. The test works equally well on beer, cocktails, mocktails and soft drinks and allegedly has a 100 percent success rate. Date rape drug tests, created by Israeli scientists, should be commercially available in a year and a half.
When police announced that the multiplatinum-selling retro-soul superstar Amy Winehouse had been found dead in her London apartment Saturday, word rippled across the pop-music universe with the speed of an all-points bulletin. Fans mourned with their wallets, sending Winehouse's breakthrough 2006 album, Back to Black, to the top of the iTunes chart. And the person who will be most deeply affected by her death—Blake Fielder-Civil, Winehouse's ex-husband and the great love of her life—broke down in tears, collapsed, and was placed on suicide watch behind prison walls.
It seems like everything that we moms do is subject to intense scrutiny and judged by the "good-mom-eter." If we dare stray from the straight and narrow we are automatically cast aside as evil women who are neglectful at best, abusive for sure and likely to end up having to pay for years of therapy.
Guys, would you rather lose your hair or lose your sexual prowess? Sounds like a pretty rotten deal, but a new study shows that men who take medication for hair loss risk losing something particularly valuable in return. The research, which was published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine this month, says that 5 to 23 percent of men who took the prescription drug finasteride (sold as Propecia) may suffer impotence, low libido, erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation and an inability to orgasm.
Did you know that 70 percent of those incarcerated in state prisons and local jails have abused drugs regularly, compared with 9 percent of the general population? Would you like a workable, common-sense alternative to paying an arm and a leg to incarcerate these individuals? Here are some facts: Drug abuse is involved in more than half of all violent crimes and 70 percent of child abuse and neglect cases.
During college, I dated a self-proclaimed "former pothead." As someone who had never smoked anything, I initially found his old hobby a huge turnoff. Potheads were like Harold & Kumar, Bob Marley and Wilie Nelson: fun, but not someone you could take seriously. We review the pros and cons of dating a stoner like everyone's favorite weed-lover Willie Nelson.
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