Articles from September 2011

PMS can ruin your life. Not in the “Shucks, I’m not gonna get laid for at least another week” type of way. And not in the “Damn, this bitch is mad and now she’s gonna poleaxe the lower half of my nut sack” type of way. But in the deranged, “I’m gonna gut you like a fish while smiling and singing Mary Had A Little Lamb” way.

So before you talk to another female experiencing “that time of the month”, read this story and heed its warnings.

PMS can be severe. So severe, in fact, that it morphs into what’s known as PMDD: Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder. This condition affects up to 8% of women. And it can be totally disabling. In some instances, it may be more than that…

Consider Regina v. Craddock, a UK criminal case from 1981.

Sandie Craddock, a 29-year-old London woman with dozens of criminal convictions, was charged with murdering a fellow barmaid. At trial an expert testified that all her crimes – as well as her numerous suicide attempts – occurred at roughly 29-day intervals (that is, in sync with her menstrual cycle). Agreeing she wasn’t in control of her faculties, the court reduced Craddock’s charge to manslaughter and freed her on probation provided she remained on hormone therapy. (more…)

We men like to feel manly. We like to be looked up to. We also want a place that we can call our own and not have to share it with others who like to change everything around (e.g. women).   If you’re married, there may not be much you can do to do make your place a man cave, since its likely your wife has already taken over every room in the house.  However, for single men, there is still hope.

This guest post is designed to show every single man out there how they can take their house or apartment and pull a 180 by completely transforming it from a regular living space into a man cave that will make all your friends want to stay, live and hang out at your place in their time away from their wives. Don’t get me wrong, I love women; but I do not let them come between me and the things I truly love.

There are three main parts to an apartment: a living room, bedroom and bathroom. Here is some good information to help transform your apartment into a real life man cave. (more…)

Scandals are everywhere in college athletics. Over the past year, we’ve seen Terrelle Pryor get paid to autograph memorabilia at Ohio State, Cam Newtown get mixed up in allegations that his father tried to bribe Mississippi State and, most recently, that half the Miami football team was enjoying free prostitutes. Anytime a new scandal comes up, someone in the mainstream media, with nothing else to write about, likes to pose the question: Should college athletes get paid?

ESPN and the Wall Street Journal have made a case for paying college athletes and most recently, Taylor Branch, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer joined in on the fun with an insanely long article in the Atlantic. He gives plenty of reasons why college athletes should be paid to play—even comparing student-athletes to slaves—but fails to outline any sort of plan to pull this off. Here’s the main point of his argument…

For all the outrage, the real scandal is not that students are getting illegally paid or recruited, it’s that two of the noble principles on which the NCAA justifies its existence—“amateurism” and the “student-athlete”—are cynical hoaxes, legalistic confections propagated by the universities so they can exploit the skills and fame of young athletes. The tragedy at the heart of college sports is not that some college athletes are getting paid, but that more of them are not.

The basis for many people’s argument, including Branch’s, is that these college athletes are poor and this is why they resort to taking improper benefits. Since the NCAA and big-time Division I schools are profiting from these athletes, aren’t the students entitled to get a piece of the revenue pie?

Can we PLEEEAASE STOP with this argument!? This will NEVER, EVER happen, (more…)

A long time ago, in a more primitive age, all the way back in the year 2005, the average person still idolized celebrity figures.  We saw them as larger-than-life people who led charmed lives.  We saw them in movies, on ball fields, and in magazines and we dreamed of being them, or at the very least, getting a glimpse of them.

But then in 2006, a new social networking web site was created that changed the way we view people in the public spotlight forever. A web site called Twitter (you may have heard of it) allowed people to share their thoughts in real time to anyone else who cared to read about them.

For us common folk, there aren’t many people who give a shit about what we are thinking.  We create Twitter pages, thinking other people care about what we have to say, but in reality, they could not give a crap.   Yet there are a group of select people whose Twitter pages are bombarded with followers. These people are celebrities. (more…)

I typically do some sort of fantasy football post around this time each year.  This year I struggled with a way to present a fantasy football post in a different manner than in years’ past.  I suppose I could have done some sort of predictions or strategy guide but I waited too long to do that and no one is coming to this site for fantasy football advice anyway.

Instead, I have a somewhat random collection of thoughts about the upcoming season and fantasy football in general.  They are a little all over the place but hopefully you’ll find this post both informative and entertaining.  (more…)