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 the current book Released in May, from HARPERCOLLINS READ MORE ABOUT THE BOOK AT WWW.MARRIAGECONFIDENTIAL.COM (but you’ll have to enter that address manually–you can’t click your way there, from here (or, just click on “read more” to get to a hotlink ...read morethe occasional blog I'm Not Blogging Anymore--And My Website is Being Redesigned. 2012-01-05 13:09:36 I'm not blogging here anymore, or updating this site: My website is being redesigned and will be up and running some time this spring. For book news and some but by no means all recent interviews or clips, see marriageconfidential.com. For my column, "Marriage 3.0," visit the Big Think. For non-marriage works and columns, see my occasional Huffington Post pieces, and other publications, on my new website, to come in the spring. You'll need to click "read more" to get hotlinks. ...read more Read my Latest BIG THINK Columns. 2011-11-29 08:18:40 read my latest Big Think columns: "Mistresses for Dummies," "Top Ten Untranslatable Words for Relationships," "Marriage According to...Google," and "We Need a Slow Domesticity Movement." Just click read more ...read more "Personhood" Amendments Are About Separation of Church and State, and Liberty of Conscience. 2011-11-06 11:53:17 ...It's now reached the point where the salient abortion law isn't the Right to Privacy. With the Personhood amendment it's become about the defense of the First Amendment protections against the state "respecting an establishment of religion," or prohibiting religious expression. ...read more 2011-10-07 17:54:27 Two things we need a word for, that just occurred to me today... ...read more 2011-10-07 17:50:37 you can READ ABOUT THE BOOK, Marriage Confidential, at my lovely book site: WWW.MARRIAGECONFIDENTIAL.COM. You can read my posts on marriage-related themes at the Big Think, a very neat online magazine where I'm not writing a weekly or twice-weekly column called "Marriage 3.0".. Click for hotlinks... ...read more Mourning the Impossibility of Perfection, Once Again.... 2011-09-26 18:52:45 Medieval monk-scribes used to deliberately insert one mistake into each of their illuminated copies of the Scriptures, just to reinforce the idea that all is flawed in the profane world...But mere authors still want perfection, and don't get it... ...read more MY NEW WEEKLY COLUMN, at BIG THINK MAGAZINE. 2011-09-24 14:35:20 Starting today I'll be doing at least a weekly column--and, if i'm ambitious, a twice-weekly column--called "Marriage 3.0" at the Big Think, a very cool online magazine. Click READ MORE to see the posts! Tweet, Facebook it, pass it along... ...read more The World, and Americans, According to a Google Search Algorithm.... 2011-09-13 10:19:51 ...I typed in, "Why Don't People." And Google, ever the over-zealous, jittery, annoyingly hyper-solicitous waiter, at that point interrupted me to display the top five results of its telepathic, algorithmic attempt to read my intention.... ...read more The Last Place to Find My Book is "SELF-IMPROVEMENT..." But That Is Where You'll Find it Shelved. 2011-08-23 08:06:13 Warning! If you're looking for my book--which is to the genre of "Self-Improvement" what Christopher Hitchens is to the genre of "Christian Inspirational"--then you will, nonetheless, have to rescue it from the SELF-IMPROVEMENT section, where it is persistently mis-shelved ...read more The Problem with "Professorial" Presidents: It's Not What You Think.... 2011-08-17 10:09:52 Obama's not “professorial” because he is smart, bookish or rational. He’s professorial because he does not truly comprehend, appreciate, or perhaps ENJOY his own agency.... He doesn’t seem the agent so much as the Scholar-in-Residence of the Agent, the one who’s doing his dissertation on: “The Problems of Power and the Presidency: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Progressivism in 21st-Century American Health Care Debates.” Obama would rather be his Presidential Biographer than the President... ...read more 2011-08-15 09:46:24 ...Then I started reading my Spam and realized that I'd missed the whole point. This isn't "junk mail." It's a sort of emergent, ad hoc literary genre of economics. ...read more Instead of Deciding our Political Future in a Cornfield in Iowa.... 2011-08-15 09:35:48 ...So here's a modest proposal. If we let the GOP race get decided by a quirky subcultural community in Iowa, how about if we let the Democratic primary process get decided by a cluster of organic maple farming communities in rural Vermont or, better yet, by.... ...read more Why is the Radical Right Suddenly Interested in "Polyamory" and "Polyandry?". 2011-07-21 15:07:30 If you're straight and have felt that the gay marriage issue and opposition is of no consequence to you personally, then think again. They're coming for your big, fat straight marriage next... ...read more Read My New Huffington Post Essay, "The Bullshit Paradox". 2011-07-20 15:23:24 You can read my short little essay for Huffington Post, "The Bullshit Paradox," by clicking the ever-exciting READ MORE... ...read more Some Wonderful, Thoughtful Interviews and Book-ish Goings On this Week.... 2011-07-08 16:12:11 I had some very gratifying interviews this week... and several new radio interview requests, including one out of Limerick, Ireland, which made me giggle immaturely, I must say... "There once was an author from Baltimore... who... " oh, never mind, you fill in the rest... ...read more The New, New Project: I’ve No Idea What it Is Yet… Stay Tuned… |
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