Survey Says It’s Adultery
We weren’t going to stoop to this, but since the discussion rages on, we’ll jump in. A Feb. 9 Time magazine telephone poll of 1,016 adults asked: “If a married man had oral sex with a woman who is not his wife, but never had sexual intercourse, is that adultery or not? The results: adultery 83 percent; not adultery 8 percent. Enough said.
Flashback: Hillary Clinton isn’t the first lady to watch her husband become unfocused while living in the White House. Let’s hope, however, that she’s not taking lessons from those who came before her.
Here’s Lady Bird Johnson weighing in on husband President Lyndon Johnson:
“You have to understand, my husband loved people. All people. And half the people in the world are women. You don’t think I could have kept my husband away from half the people?” And “if all these ladies had some good points I didn’t have, I hope I had the good sense to learn a little bit from it.”
Or Florence Harding on the philandering of First Husband Warren Harding: “(Nan Britton) was always doing everything on earth that she could do to attract Warren’s attention. (Her) overdevelopment tended to attract men on the streets and, together with her unusually short dresses, she attracted attention, of course, and in not a very nice way.” (From: Feb. 9 Time)
Quote of the week: The cast of a one-night Valentine’s Day benefit performance - in New York - of “The Vagina Monologues” included Glenn Close, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Winona Ryder and Rosie Perez. “My friends in L.A. still don’t believe I’m doing something called ‘Vagina Monologues,’ ” says Perez. Funny how the word “monologue” scares people in Hollywood, notes Newsweek magazine. (From: Feb. 9 Newsweek)
Men, it’s too late now: More than 900 million Valentine’s Day cards are bought each year and 85 percent of the folks doing the buying are women. (From: Feb. 9 Time)
Write this down: (202-219-4486) The Women’s Bureau Clearinghouse, sponsored by the Department of Labor, will answer the phone from 7 a.m.-1 p.m. weekdays and dispense free, practical advice and information about wage or age discrimination, sexual harassment, medical leave, and other workplace issues. (From: January New Woman)
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