The Average Person Spends Four hours of their Day Battling Temptation

I am reading a new book by social psychologist Roy F. Baumeister & journalist John Tierney entitled Willpower: Rediscovering the Greates...

Ronnie Schreiber at PJM Lifestyle: "Charles Kettering Liberated Women More Than Betty Friedan & Gloria Steinem.

Should Ugly People get Affirmative Action?

"Hell,no!" I thought, as I read a post on this topic at Amy Alkon's blog but unfortunately, economist Daniel Hamermesh, au...

"Sixty to 90 percent of jobs are found informally - mainly through friends, relatives, and direct contacts."

I thought about the above statistic as I read a new book called The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking . . . Because People Do B...

John Hawkins interviews Mark Steyn about his new book After America: Get Ready for Armageddon.

Fixing your Aching Back, Neck and Shoulders

I am blogging while sitting on my new gadget--the Gaiam Balance Ball Chair. I am pretty much willing to try anything at this point to fix m...

Protecting Yourself While Divorcing Someone With Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder

I just got a press release about a new book co-authored by Randi Kreger, the author of Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When...

MSNBC: "After uproar, man with breast cancer OK’d for coverage": Although he was not eligible for traditional Medicaid coverage,...

Gun Owners: Are You Compensating for Something?

We've all heard it before, guys who carry guns have small penises or some variation of that. I have always laughed at that notion--usual...

"More than 30 percent of the cases investigated by detectives each year are deemed unfounded, five times the national average."

In response to my previous post, Dave from the BaltoNorth blog sends in this article from the Baltimore Sun on false rape allegations: The ...

WSJ: "College Rape Accusations and the Presumption of Male Guilt: Pressured by the Obama administration, universities abandon any pret...

Groceries too Expensive? Grow your Own.

Glenn ordered a book called Edible Landscaping that proclaimed "Now You Can Have Your Gorgeous Garden and Eat It Too!" Since I a...

The Raw Food Diet: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?

This morning, I am reading through a book called The Complete Idiot's Guide to Raw Food Detox . I know, I know, why am I torturing myse...

Amy Alkon has an interesting post on whether or not short men should wear lifts: Women, across cultures, are typically attracted to men who ...

Question of the Day

I read that French President Nicolas Sarkozy disrupted his vacation to fly back to Paris for an emergency meeting to review "the econom...

Men Living Longer: Women and minorities hardest hit?

The New York Time's opinion page has one of those Onion -like titles that really makes you shake your head just hoping it's a parod...

Does Meredith Whitney Read?

I was surprised to see a story at CNBC with the title: "Tea Party Made Up of 'Freaked Out White Men': Whitney:" “Call it...

Making College Pay

I am reading a very helpful book about choosing colleges entitled Making College Pay: Strategies for Choosing Wisely, Doing Well & Maxim...

CNBC: "The ten most hated jobs." Note that most of them are performed by men.

Is the Economy Stressing Your Family Out?

I saw over at Rasmussen Reports (via Instapundit ) that 67% of respondents felt that their family was being stressed by the economy: The l...

Are People Becoming Ruder in the Obama Economy?

I saw over at Rasmussen Reports that 76% of Americans feel that people are becoming ruder: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey...

When Vegetables Attack

I recently went to my gastroenterologist who seemed appalled when I told him I was eating bacon everyday. "You need some fruits and veg...

Do you ever wonder what your dreams mean?

Many times as a psychologist people ask me what their dreams mean. It's sort of hard to come up with an answer if you don't know muc...