Monthly Archives: March 2002

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* My confusion about the pros and cons of a big ego drew a couple of responses that have cleared up the issue for me. David Woolley’s contention is that “there are some big accomplishments that are pretty hard to … Continue reading →

A Newsweek story this week titled says that “legions of parents still supporting their twentysomethings have created a whole new breed of child — the adultolescent…. To some, all this support and protection — known as “scaffolding” among the experts … Continue reading →

A study published this week asserts that “Children in joint physical or legal custody were better adjusted than children in sole-custody settings, but no different from those in intact families.” The StarTribune ran a story on it to give it … Continue reading →

Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry were in town this week for a prayer breakfast for 1800. They’re the two young Christian women from Texas who were arrested in August by the Taliban and held for 3 months for trying to … Continue reading →

I posted two more Real Joe Audio Essays today. The Audio Essay list now includes: Pain vs. suffering: big difference Rounding the Bases: a perfect metaphor for sex education Stairway to heaven: The resurrection of Jesus revisited A weekly audio … Continue reading →

Time magazine (April 1): How have you stayed productive for so long? Stephen King: The answer is, Stay healthy and stay married. The only Stephen King book I’ve read is “On Writing” and in it he describes how his wife … Continue reading →

Another one bites the dust. TV Discovers the Antarctic Explorer Shackleton in a Big Way. He failed in his mission, lusted after fame, cheated on his wife and more or less abandoned his children… Shackleton was a classic quixotic character, … Continue reading →

My wife helped me learn (delicatedly phrased, don’t you think?) long ago that giving her lingerie as a gift is a bad idea. Much better for her to buy it for herself as a present to me, since I’m the … Continue reading →

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Our culture admires Roger Clemens for his work ethic and drive, along with his pitching skill. But he seems to have mistaken ideas about what’s important. There also may be a time element to Clemens’s pursuit. He has said he … Continue reading →

Support Real Joe See this week’s Book Reviews from The Atlantic Online, Esquire, The New Republic, and Salon.com at Powell’s Books. The psychosis of Andrea Yates: a two-person problem More opinions that align with my contention that Andrea Yates was … Continue reading →

Peggy Noonan wrote in her column last week about the Pope’s statement on the sex abuse scandals: So, the pontiff said that the priests who have abused and seduced teenage boys and adolescents had given in to the most grievous … Continue reading →

Lindsey, yeah, maybe at our lowest brute level, we men do need women around to dominate and use for our sexual pleasures. But the dance of the sexes is complementary, which means we’re evolving right along with you. A step … Continue reading →

Support Real Joe. Visit Powell’s Books and see this week’s list of Great Deals — books hand-picked by their staff at savings of up to 70%. Ads in the Blog As you can see, I’m testing out the insertion of … Continue reading →

I added the 2002 edition of What Color is Your Parachute? to the Real Joe Bookstore today. Seven freakin’ million and counting. Number 128 on the Amazon list this afternoon. Jeesh. Mr. Bolles tells me he’s celebrating his 75th birthday … Continue reading →

I don’t know how widespread the distribution of Spike Lee’s documentary, Jim Brown: All American will be, but I’d like to see it after reading this review in today’s NYTimes: Jim Brown as Football Legend, Sex Symbol and Husband. At … Continue reading →

One line in Kent Nerburn’s reply to the writing students particularly caught my eye: Learn now to do no harm to each other — to never treat each other with cruelty, whether verbal, emotional, or physical. It’s a lesson well … Continue reading →

Kent Nerburn, author of Letters to My Son (in the Real Joe Store), has a new student letters to parents page on his web site. Recently, I received a selection of letters written by high school students as a response … Continue reading →

NPR’s ATC reported yesterday that the Pew Research Center for People and the Press released its second annual poll on the role of religion in public titled, Americans Struggle with Religion’s Role at Home and Abroad. Some interesting tidbits: A … Continue reading →

NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd sticks it to the male hierarchies in her Father Knows Worst column today. A monsoon of sickening stories lately illustrates how twisted societies become when women are either never seen, dismissed as second-class citizens or … Continue reading →

Heath Row, longtime social capitalist at Fast Company magazine alerted me to an item in his Media Diet weblog today about a new men’s magazine called Adam. Nothing much on their web site, other than a subscription form and a … Continue reading →

Joel Stein’s hilarious Time magazine column this week is titled “Life After Oprah: She says she’s hanging it up in 2006. Why men are counting the days.” Read it before they archive it. “… men are frustrated that we don’t … Continue reading →

An update on last week’s blog entry on why a multi-millionaire pro-athlete would steal from a teammate. From a sports pyschologist in this Sunday NY Times piece: a sense of entitlement, with roots in a lack of structure and little … Continue reading →

Billy Graham’s terse apology earlier this month over his remarks about the Jews to President Nixon only served to anger many Jewish organizations. So on Saturday, he released another one and posted it on the his organization’s web site. However, … Continue reading →