Women get more beautiful with every generation and the new crop is no exception.  That is why I believe in dating when it comes to both sexes, In a perfect world you should remain monogomous until marriage, but I believe many people would regret only having one partner their lives, instead of sampling the smorgasboard that is availiable to them.

He had my vote

it's cheaper to be single. there used to be a more appropriate saying but i foregot it.

Why should they?  As my mother used to say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?"  (Sorry, that was my mother, not me)

And now, today's Shrub Report®:

Why hasn't Congress scheduled hearings, dragging oil company execs in to question them about the horrific drop in gas prices, causing a calamitous decrease of tax revenue, ruining city, county, and state budgets left and right? Outrage!

Happy World Toilet Day!

The most sensible solution to this growing problem in England? Two words.

Thank God this P.O.S. fossil lost. Regardless of party, scum like him should not be in office.

The Black Pearl goes bye-bye…

The Hopeful Changer proves, yet again, he has his elbow firmly on the pulse of America. Lose your house? Can't afford Spam? Too bad, because we have an imaginary windmill to tilt at! Interestingly, it was 145 years ago today that Obama gave a speech at Gettysburg. At least Ahhhhhnold agrees with his fellow immigrant. Perhaps committing to stupid things like this might be contributing to Kalifornia's $23,000,000,000 shortfall. Obama does resemble Lincoln, though. At least we all know his wife is a psychotic nutjob.…

NB's own A Beautiful Person is in the news!

Jabba gets thrown off the bench. Or was it Sally Struthers?

Today's Culture of Corruption Update.

I hope they didn't let her do the parking…

And, finally, Twilight opens on Friday.

Drudge has a story today of how the Obama inauguration may bankrupt D.C.

I heard they are going to set up JumboTrons along the mall.... another first.  Everyone must have a chance to view the Messiah.

Well no expense is too great, I guess.

and The Fabulously Fit New First Couple

Does anyone remember the grief President Bush took....people suggesting he should get off the treadmill and do his job? Now they are enthralled by a guy who spends 3 hours in the gym.

These "journalists"  really make me ill.

What a one sided report. It's not just men who are avoiding marriage but women too. It's what I call the "me" affect. There is no incentive to get married but there are plenty of reasons not to. Divorce rate is nearly 50 percent. People see friends having 3 week old marriages and getting it annulled. People see couples in bad marriages, broke, with unruly kids. Church is no longer the social glue that once held a community together. People are pulling away from the old teachings and embracing "new age" religions. Most families are two income and very busy which leads to fatigue suffered by the family unit. People talk but no one communicates. They don't listen to one another.

Just look at the fabric of society and you will see a huge increase in aggression towards one another. Aggressive drivers, costumers talking on cell phones and ignoring the cashier who is trying to do their job. Someone is short a dollar to buy food and has to take a loaf of bread back while the person behind them just gets angry that the line is moving too slow. No one holds a door open for a young mother with a baby buggy at the mall. No one helps the little old lady to her car when the parking lot is ice covered. No one HELPS!

Why should we expect any difference for the institute of marriage?

Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

There are many reasons why but I'm a single male in my mid 20s who still believes in marriage. In fact I would like to be married but I've come to find if I don't have a good relationship with God first, how am I ever going to keep a marriage going? I think the biggest reason marriages fail and people don't seek marriage anymore is because of how God has been taken out of the equation.

www.theholyrosary.org

"There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we can not resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary." -Sister Lucia

I was educated in a Christian school. Twelve years. I started "going with" my wife in junior year. I lived in a world that frowned on sex outside of marriage. I also, and this is very important, lived in a world where it was difficult for two young people with raging hormones to find the privacy to release the pent up emotions. When any of my male older sibs or my peers  got the opportunity and then got their girl friends pregnant, they got married. Many of us were far too young and too immature. Nonetheless, many of those marriages survived.

We wanted change and we granted change to our children. We did not agree with the rigidity of our parents rules.

To save a lot of space and wasted words, I will summarize by saying that if I were to be young and out dating in today's world, I would not have any interest in marriage. I would not want a long term relationship until I was in my mid to late thirties. Everything I see in today's world caters to or panders to sexual desires and fantasies. The young women of today do not have the same sense of shame or modesty and respect for themselves that their mothers and grandmothers had. How can you blame them?? Look at what they see and hear, not only in the  entertainment world, but in our schools and homes on TV.

I have been divorced and I am married a second time for over thirty years. I would have no life should anything happen to separate my wife and me. Perhaps trial and error without the formal bonds of marriage is a better thing than children and divorce.

Please, please do not take my comments as judgments. They are merely observations. I have no answers. Had I been born in 1963 instead of 1933, I am sure I would have a more open attitude about sex and relationships than I do today.

P.S. I am and always have been pro-life. I am not anti-contraception. Children should be wanted and loved. Hopefully, they would be raised by the same loving couple that created them.

Just recently, within the past few weeks, I saw a segment on the local news about "dating" trends - or not - in college.  It seems that college students, mainly women perhaps?, used to want a steady boyfriend and a relationship in college with marriage to happen during or just after college.  

That appears to no longer be the case.  Even among women, the idea of settling for a steady boy-friend is "so yesterday!" and the idea of just randomly hooking-up is the way to go.

This may partly contribute to the men not having to promise fidelity, commitment, or any other burdensomely adult responsibility in order to score.

It would appear that protracted adolescence (more play time, "it's all about me" way of thinking) is not restricted to the men. 

Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years.  The cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."

As some of you know, my looking for a Mrs. Unsane has been very painful and frustrating.   In order to first get married, you must at least date every so often. 

Yes, I realize that being an aspiring academic, shackled by many different obsessive devotions that aren't necessarily conducive to social interaction, hampers things quite a bit.  But there are nonetheless things I do where I interact with people at large. Nonetheless, it is very difficult to accomplish. 

The poster above (whose name escapes me) who talked about the scene in DC doesn't surprise me.  I hated DC when I visited the place and found people there to be more rude and hostile than even NYC.  I would HATE to live there much less enter "the scene" there. 

In the meantime, as I jokingly tell my parents (who I suspect are convinced I am destined for perpetual bachelorhood), what can I get out of marriage?  I am too independent: I cook and clean and manage everything on my own.  Hell, maybe I am too set in my ways for it.  

"THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING!!!  A WAR ON FREEWILL IS COMING!!!" - Nevermore, "Bittersweet Feast", from This Godless Endeavor (2005)

Could somebody tell me what that little multi-squared box is at the end of all the pages, at the very bottom on the left?

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

I just heard on Hannity that Brent is going to be on his show sometime soon...don't know if it the up-coming hour or next...just thought I would let some of you know.

I caught him this morning on F&F...

Dow down 425 or so today...into the 7000 numbers now...like I said awhile back when asked on some blog post, I just don't think it will hit bottom until it gets around 7500 somewhere.

Just my opinion.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

...much less an actuall wife.  :-(

-Dave

Did this country just elect Obama/Biden, or was it Soros/Ayers?

I think the reason is just a general moral decay of society. The drones that go to the bars every night or every weekend have no incentive to get married because they are clueless about love and what it means to dedicate yourself to someone else. It is all about self gratification rather than sacrafice for another.

There are less girls and guys that don't follow the crowd off the cliff which makes it harder for people that do have morals and do try to follow God's law to meet each other. It is like trying to find a needle in a haystack now. It's easy for the drones to find each other because they all do the same mindless crap but marriage is of no interest to them because they don't see the point and if they do get married it ends in divorce.

People that do understand marriage and do understand what it means to love someone else simply arn't meeting because there are not enough of us. It's like trying to wade through a pile of zombies to get to the princess in the middle. Even if you were lucky enough to get to the princess, chances are you either don't look good enough or your not "exciting" or "fun enough". Thats the way I feel about it so far in life.

"Push back the liberal hordes!!" - Mark Levin

Oh goody gum-drops...

Be ready to feel warm and fuzzy all over...Janet Napolitano is going to be named as Secretary of Homeland Security...according to The Politico.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh