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August 2013, Page 8

Wow! Ashton Kutcher aka @aplusk gives inspirational speech at Teen Choice Awards

I’ve never paid much attention to actor Ashton Kutcher one way or the other over the years outside of knowing that he and actress Demi Moore were once married, that he used to post pictures of her on Twitter that I found inappropriate for a husband to post, *may* have cheated on her with other women prior to their split, and that he has always seemed like a child trapped in a man’s body. Β It sounds like somewhere along the way, however, Mr. Kutcher has grown up a bit – at least if you go by the surprisingly inspiring speech he gave at the Teen Choice Awards Sunday night. Β  Β The Blaze recaps:.....   [Read More]

NYT columnist: Pro-lifers are, in part, responsible for “roots of rape” – ST reader corrects

In a column yesterday, the NYT’s Frank Bruni tried to examine what the various mindsets are behind the “roots of rape” in America. He cited an author and psychology professorΒ who blamed trivial things like the phrase “you throw like a girl”, and who also foolishly tried to blame the pro-life movement for ‘disrespect of a woman being able to control her own body’ – to paraphrase (via Newsbusters’ Matt Vespa by way of Memeorandum):.....   [Read More]