Life Done Right™

For those of you wondering whether college has changed much since your own youthful indiscretions the answer is….no. It’s still all about hooking up and dealing with the emotional aftermath. How this journey gets articulated varies from person to person, but at Cornell, students are fortunate to have Jenna B talking the talk and laying [...]

If you tear down this Bay Ridge landlord’s Christmas decorations and dump them on his porch, watch out! You may get a note taped to your door that reads, “Dear Scumbag, If I catch you, I will kill you where you are. You don’t want to f- - - with the Irish.” Rodney King once [...]

Amy Fisher, the Long Island Lolita who bedded Joey Buttafuco, still lives in the sexlight of her affair. She recently was interviewed by Steppin Out magazine and had this to say about Joey: “When he was the older man 17 years ago, he was just 33 years old. But now he’s 50 . . [...]

Wouldn’t sex be great if all it required was looking at a mood ring on someone’s finger and if it was the right color you could make your moves knowing the response would be in your favor! Unfortunately science has not invented such a ring yet, so author Michele Davis wrote “The Sex-Starved Wife” to [...]

When your purpose in life is almost 100 percent derived from your work, then what happens after you retire? Where does your ego go for satisfaction when the daily rituals of work disappear? Will all that “free time” truly provide you with a sense of identity that equals the stroking your job nurtured through your [...]

The notion of zapping the brain with a couple jolts of electricity in order to shock it out of depression seems about as informed as applying leeches to the body in an effort to rid the blood of unwanted impurities. When all else fails, though, and the days are growing darker by the minute, I [...]

Craigslist “Casual Encounters” is a jungle, man. There are all kinds of strange animals roaming the forest looking to engage in primal acts of pleasure with complete strangers.
One 19-year-old girl says, “so i have today off and tonight i have plans.. but what is there to do until then? i just wanna makeout with [...]

How about a little shout-out for Kmart and Home Instead Senior Care for sponsoring a program that allows customers to pick an ornament off a Christmas tree that has a few wish list items from home alone seniors. The customers can then purchase the gifts (presumably at Kmart) and return them to the store to [...]

For those women who have never heard of the word narcissism before, please, enjoy this article about yet another ambitious feminist who can’t seem to sustain a personal relationship but can sure find time to bond with the abstract love shared by her grandparents. It’s a touching tale of self-indulgence that makes every effort to [...]

Leave it to the Bush Administration to hire a bunch of lawyers to draft legislation that inserts a few key words into a Medicaid bill in order to influence the use of birth control on college campuses across the nation. Maybe this administration needs to go back and read the fine print of the Constitution…you [...]

Religion has a way of inserting itself into every personal aspect of your life that you just might begin to wonder whether there’s any room left in your head to call your own. Forget a room with a view, how about a head without dogma to get you through the day! A recent religious conference [...]

Old age brings a rash of problems that have nothing to do with your life but somehow become the focal point of your daily existence. Who knew pill popping at $5 a pill times four or five would produce such a strain on your meager purse. When your children come to visit why is it [...]

If you decide to work in the creative arts, then you have to be prepared to accept a life of regret and chagrin as you watch those with less originality earn a living by merely accepting the status quo and getting the average person to accept it as well. There is no glorious purse in [...]

Pop culture requires keeping up with the latest gossip. Britney Spears has done her part to provide plenty of juicy tabloid moments that will go down in 21st Century history as iconic gestures of a frail mind whose wiring lacks that structure of an advanced education. Duran Duran, with the help of former Britney [...]

Haute Couture, when done by a master like John Galliano for Christian Dior, transports you to a part of your mind that usually only exists up on the big screen. There’s an aesthetic in play here that is so refreshing to behold that we poured ourselves another glass of cold water just to remind us [...]

The internet thrives because it allows people to constantly update their fixation on matters both trivial and serious. If your thing is sock puppets, chances are someone out there has posted a daily sock puppet routine on YouTube. It all seems harmless until someone catches you in a public place doing something that normally happens [...]

End of life scenarios involve all kinds of strange situations that require gut-wrenching decisions. Cost-benefit analysis accountants would probably argue that spending gobs of money to keep someone alive for a few extra weeks knowing full well the end is near only makes sense if you are in the business of running a hospital.
But then [...]

Add one more reason to question the values of Catholicism as preached by those who profess to act in selfless servitude to he who goes by the name of God. If you weren’t shocked, yes shocked, by the rampant sexual abuse behavior of priests, then you probably won’t mind a priest here or there preying [...]

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Writer Daniel Alarcon wrote an interesting article for Salon back in 2005. He was invited to a fundraiser dinner, the kind that dominate the social scene in most major cities across the country. In order to get donors to throw a few greenbacks their way, institutions are placed in the position of organizing [...]

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OK ladies, take a lesson from Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of real estate developer Donald Trump, and find yourself a younger man so you can be a sexy nanny instead of a nurse maid to a soiled old man who constantly forgets your name, unless, course, the old man has the bucks, in [...]