The front pages of the both Pasadena Star-News and the Los Angeles Times today have major articles on the death of Aydin Salek, a popular and promising senior at South Pasadena High School who succumbed to apparent alcohol poisoning after a weekend...

Andrea sends me a link to this Jay Michaelson piece that ran last Wednesday at the Huffington Post: It’s Not Just Tiger: Monogamous Marriage Is An Anomaly. The title is, one admits, historically accurate; marriage, as Stephanie Coontz has shown so...

Last week I posted the “bottom half” of my top ten posts of 2009. Here are my top five, in ascending order. 5. “She’s got you wrapped around her finger”: fathers, daughters, and a variation on the myth of male weakness (August...

Instead of a regular Friday Random Ten, here are my ten favorite traditional carols, — in order of fondness — with Youtube videos. Sound quality varies. 1. O, du Fröhliche 2. Angels We Have Heard on High 3. The Holly and the Ivy 4. God Rest...

In the comments below yesterday’s post about Tiger Woods and homosociality, Tom questions my use of the concept in describing the golfer’s infidelities with a certain type of woman. If homosociality drives men to use women to seek status in the eyes...