Older women who date younger men are cougars. Older men who date younger women are men. Hang on a second... Why we coin names for women's sexual exploits and let men be 'men.' Cougar, the New White Elephant

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Inspired by AMC's "Mad Men" and its lead, Don Draper, Casea Major's new release, "Night with a Dom" from Decadent Publishing sells sweet heat --Don Draper and The Ugly Guy Approach–Meet Casea Major

I want to say I loathe St. Patrick's Day because I'm an Irish-descended contemporary Druid and neopagan, and the one-day annual leprechaunization of the west grates on my culturally sympathetic nerves.   I don't loathe it, though, because  I know it's no longer cool to dwell on one more holiday conscripted by a late-blooming religion that claims the day as a long-held authentic…

Encyclopedia Britannicais going out of print, moving to an entirely digital platform.  Few are likely broken up about the transition, though I confess:   :(

I lived in encyclopedias as a kid, when I wasn't nose-first in National…

I'm going out on a limb here. Get it? I'm not literally climbing out on the branch of a tree, but figuratively, I'm taking liberty with canon use of the English language and making it my bitch. I'm shaping the words to mean what I want them to mean by my personal situation and context, even if they don't really mean that in the language proper, or to…

Read this one gently, folks.  It's my reaction to a veteran soldier being tried for the rape and murder of a baby girl.  That said, if you can, still read it.  We've a grave need to update ideologies on PTSD, war, and child rape.