“For four years it’s been one big all-you-can-eat buffet for the corporations, and now they’re coming back for more. Go ahead, you marvelous bastards! Rip out all the trees, pave the beaches, build 12-lane freeways, plunder the treasury, destroy our future. Cook the books, rig elections, pack the courts, hand the regulatory agencies over to fascist maniacs. Invade more countries, declare code red, invoke martial law, and keep going until your oil-sucking exploits kick off a nuclear exchange.” – Dean Opperman, Pasadena Weekly. The whole article is pretty hard to beat.
WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS: Married men are healthier:
The team, from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, said the findings strengthened previous research suggesting that marriage improved people’s quality of life. A recent study concluded that single men were at greater risk of dying than smokers. Researchers said that singletons tended to drink more because they socialised more. They also worked longer because they had no partner to make time for and often missed meals. Dr Patricia Mona Eng said that increased alcohol consumption among widowed and divorced men could be linked to the stress of being alone.
That goes for gay men as well. The social pressures designed to keep them single and without family also makes them more liable to shorter, less healthy lives. So why do we have public policy that discourages health and encourages social isolation among a minority of Americans? Is the argument really that gay male health actually detracts from straight male health? How exactly?
The Dish 