Posted by: goofy328 on: November 29, 2007
Times certainly have changed, and ideas about what is different and how one “acts out” have changed dramatically since I was a child. I missed out on the piercings, but for me funky hair wasn’t really that funky, just the same Afro everyone else had over the years. Tattoos weren’t for me, as a lot [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: November 28, 2007
So just how long should someone be able to receive welfare? Until they are confidently in a position of self-sufficiency. Welfare-to-work was an interesting approach to welfare reform that suggested that the state could work alongside employers in bringing welfare recipients back to some level of autonomy by employing them in jobs that required a [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: November 24, 2007
A writer is still on the fence about adoption, but the love of a child, and his wife’s needs, could easily push him off.
My wife has been ready to adopt for years, and I had always wanted to take the high road and insisted on having our own children naturally. But there are other issues [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: November 24, 2007
Friendships between the sexes are often on uneven ground. Ideally, men and women could remain friends forever and the friendship would never evolve into anything else unless it was agreed upon and it could happen mutually. But friendship is often built upon tension between men and women in the first place, and those friendships in [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: November 24, 2007
I always had in mind what I thought that the perfect relationship was going to be, and once I found that person to share it with I was going to execute that plan with perfection and have the love of a lifetime. Well after a few missteps I finally found someone that I could do [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: November 24, 2007
A writer pontificates why him and other men had constantly picked up the wrong girls over the years, and what should be done about it, if anything …
Perhaps the women are picking you instead of the other way around. Do you go after everyone who gives you some attention and encourages you or do you [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: November 22, 2007
The expansion of ODU in Portsmouth is a good thing, bringing some long needed revitalization to the depressed area of town next to Chesapeake next to the Western Freeway. Hampton Roads Crossing is a massive project that includes the MAST Center, a centerpiece of a new research center and technology park, a major push in [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: November 20, 2007
Advice for black women finding a black man that is interested in more than just one thing …
Television paints both black men and women as being monolithic, dim, ignorant individuals with their mind preoccupied on simple interests that provide instant gratification. Black women like black men as long as that preoccupation is money, and black [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: November 19, 2007
Yesterdays’ Shock Tactics Compared with Today’s Intellectual FeminismAs interesting as feminism is a review of two different books written from two different perspectives shows the changes from feminism’s first wave to the third incarnation of the movements ideologies is perhaps one of the more interesting methods to see just how much things have changed over [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: November 16, 2007
I don’t live in Norfolk, but it’s the closest thing I have to the metro as I’m in South Norfolk, a neighborhood in Chesapeake bordering the area. Norfolk is a great city with a lot of promise, but the leadership is downright disturbing. The corruption doesn’t surprise me, it happens in a lot of major [...]
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