CLOSED TILL FURTHER NOTICE

Dear Readers, I am taking a break to focus on my writing and ending my postings as a result. At some point this will become the writer’s blog that I wanted it to be all along. Perhaps you will come visit when that happens.

There is just no more need for more opinions about the things that are just obvious and overly discussed, especially when things don’t change as a result. I’m going to leave that chatter to others now. I have no energy left to keep restating the obvious. I do put my  money where my mouth is, as the expression goes, and I do adhere to the creed that one must adapt to the times or go the way of the dinosaur, It is a time of changes and the following months will be most interesting.

In the meantime, thanks for having followed along. I hope to see you again at some future point on...

MisterWriter

ONE QUARTER OF COLLEGE WOMEN WILL BE THE VICTIMS OF RAPE OR ATTEMPTED RAPE

In what has to be called one of the scariest of statistics for ANY family, ABC News Nightline will be airing a special tonight claiming that a Department of Justice study shows that one in four women attending college are the victims of rape or attempted rape. Can you believe that?

The center for Public Integrity reports that the students found responsible often face little or no punishment.

Read the grim study HERE and watch it on ABC Nightline tonight. Click the color links for the source material as well as NPR Here.

MisterWriter

WELL APPARENTLY THE BIRDS DO IT BOTH WAYS!

I had nothing to say on Prop 8 this week and so I thought I would share a story about gay love that has been the subject of a lot of money spent soliciting for an answer to the question of why birds are more than just happy; they are gay.

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To find out whether the theory might extend to homosexual behavior, MacFarlane and his team exhaustively combed the literature for accounts of same-sex courtship, mounting, or pair bonding. They focused on the 93 bird species whose homosexual interactions scientists had seen in the wild. For each species, the team calculated the frequency of homosexual behavior as well as both sexes' contributions to parenting.

These University of Newcastle, Australia scientists were very thorough. And what did you know… they found that…

In some cases, homosexual alliances may even be adaptive, helping individuals defend territories, advance their social status, or get help with parental care.

This only goes to show that in an election year anything is possible. And if you have not had enough on the subject, LiveScience has a whole channel devoted to this topic HERE- http://www.livescience.com/animals/gay-homosexual-animals-100820.html. You can also read the raging battle in the comments section between all the viewpoints, especially the religious ones.

Happy Labor Day weekend. Stay safe!

MisterWriter