Why is There Still No Male Contraceptive Pill?

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Great news out of Israel – that male contraceptive pill that they’ve been promising for the last 40-odd years may be only three years away thanks to breakthrough new research — not to be confused with any of the other breakthrough research that they’ve been reporting for the last 40-odd years. Because, as New Zealand Herald reporter Shelley Bridgeman points out, they promised in 2000 that the male pill would be ready …

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Hollywood Doesn’t Have a Bad Mother Obsession, But We Have a Good Mother Obsession

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There are good fathers and bad fathers, but for some reason, it’s the good mothers and the bad mothers who get all the press. And by good and bad mothers, I mean just the bad mothers. Family issues are the lifeblood of a good Oscar-worthy movie, and now that we’ve hit awards season, there’s a lot of talk going around about bad mothers in film. Critics have noted that a number of the films nominated or expected to be nominated for awards this coming season feature bad mothers: Black Swan, The Fighter, and Animal Kingdom, to name a few. Last year, the …

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Trial Underway for New Hampshire’s Resident Psycho Killer

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Kimberly Cates, a 42-year-old nurse from a quintessential small New Hampshire town, was murdered last October by a group of angry, isolated, outcast adolescent boys. Now the alleged ringleader of the group—and the one who wielded the machete that left over thirty wounds on Cates’ body—is on trial for first-degree murder.

That would, of course, be Steven Spader of creepy-letter-to-local-newspaper-to-make-his-rantings-public infamy.

And while it’s not the three ring circus personified by the trials of Charles Manson and O.J. Simpson, coverage of the carnage perpetrated by kids robbing homes and killing a woman and seriously injuring her daughter just for kicks (Spader’s accomplice Christopher Gribble, whose first-degree murder trial is scheduled for February, told authorities that he “had wanted to kill someone for a long time and was disappointed he didn’t feel any emotion following the Cates killing”) is really pretty disturbing.

While video clips show Spader steepling his fingers and trying to stare down prosecution witnesses, I can’t help but be disgusted by the fact that Kimberly Cates, who literally …

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Michigan Man Headed to Jail for Refusing to Pay Child Support for his 23 Kids

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In perhaps the worst case of being a deadbeat dad ever, a Michigan man is going to prison for 2-4 years for refusing to pay child support for 23 children he has fathered. Howard Veal of Kent County owes more than $500,000 to at least …

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