Goodwill and Man-Woman Relationships

I had an older friend who was a brilliant writer but had a negative view of women, particularly of mothers. I challenged that view, and that resulted in him terminating the friendship.I also had a correspondence with a professor who studies domestic violence. I wrote some...

Why Republicans Should Support Domestic Violence Legislation

There have been some Republican politicians, such as Tom Cole, who've been speaking up in favor of domestic violence legislation; and then there are others who have been opposing it. This is to reach those people based on what they claim to believe.Refusing to practice or...

What Australia Needs

Australia is a beautiful and livable country, and there is a lot to be said in favor of Australian people. We see in them openness, honesty, compassion and generosity that are not frequently found in many other places. I want to see Australia flourish; and toward that...

Wife Beater's Paradise

<To the tune of Gangsta's Paradise> As I walk down the hallways of the family courtI look at liberty and realize that there's none leftBecause they've been lying and blasting so longThat even judges think that women's minds are goneBut they don't put away the men who...

The Real Gender War

I have known many people, both women and men, who have been abused or are being abused by their partners. Most severe cases have been women at hand of men; but I've also seen enough woman-on-man nastiness. I am not going to accept the Christian explanation that all...

Kevin Federline Syndrome and Brittney Spears Syndrome

There are any number of ways in which one can be a jerk, and some of these have been catalogued and others haven’t. The form of which I am speaking right now has not been catalogued; but it has happened in enough situations that I believe it to be commonplace. I refer to...

Open Letter to Eminem

Dear Mr. Mathers,  Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Ilya Shambat. My family came from Russia to America when I was 12. I went on a full scholarship to a private school and finished University of Virginia at age 18. In my adult life, I have done everything from...

Domestic Violence: Cure and Prevention

So far the issue of family violence has not been approached rationally. There are some people who go to jail for an argument or a slap, and there are others who get away with breaking their partner's skull and not only get away with it but get to keep the children. It is...

Police: Man used dog to beat girlfriend

A Sanford man was arrested on allegations of beating his live-in girlfriend with her own dog, ClickOrlando.com reports.Michael Wayne Jones, 42, was arrested Thursday on charges of domestic battery by strangulation, criminal mischief and animal cruelty.According to Sanford...

Hillary Clinton and Marital Infidelity

A lot of people despised Bill Clinton for having sex with Monica Lewinski. Most of these people make much worse husbands than Bill Clinton made. The only person who stood to get hurt by his affair - Hillary Clinton - got a very good deal in the relationship. She was allowed...

Domestic violence and sexual harrassment

When I was waiting for a bus at a Greyhound terminal in Hartford, Connecticut, a deaf older man hit on a young long-haired little guy. The little guy went off and started shouting about how he's going to get him in jail and how he's being harrassed and how the man is a...

Racket Anger and Domestic Violence

Once while visiting a petting zoo, I saw a lion cub growling, with a very angry tone and expression, at goats that were walking around. The goats of course had done nothing to irritate the lion cub, and the lion cub had no reason to be angry at them. Rather for the lion cub...

Roch Theriault and Domestic Violence

Roch Theriault, a Canadian cult leader who killed two of his followers, maimed a number of others and practiced sexual molestation of children, was killed by his cellmate last year. There are any number of ways in which this matter can be parsed.One is to claim all cult...