Contemporary Taste In Music & Why I Hate Trey Songz

Trey Songz For the nostalgic among the readership, allow me to set up the basis for this article by taking a stroll down Memory Lane. I belong to the aging generation demographers and social scientists refer to as "Generation X," those born...

Is Anyone Else Tired Of "Swagger?"

Working with young people, while constantly being bombarded via the internet, television, and magazines with gossip and pseudo-news about contemporary pop culture, I often find myself wondering whether or not I am alone in being fed-up with the...

America's Lack of Sexual Modesty (...or "Sex & The Prude")

I’m a little reluctant about writing this particular piece. Not because I feel embarrassed about my about my observations and/or stance on the subject, but because when it comes to the issue of sex in America if you’re not sexually...

Employers…Shut Up & Listen!

A funny thing happened to me about a month ago while applying for a position for employment (not ha-ha “funny” but what the ****? “funny”). Theoretically, it could have been any position but as it happened was one in the social service...

Why Are So Many Black Women Single, Part 2

In part 1 (http://hubpages.com/hub/Why-Are-So-Many-Black-Women-Single-Part-1), the question was explored of why so many black women were single (between 60-70% some estimates). Among some of the possible reasons was the failure of black males to...

Why Are So Many Black Women Single, Part 1

So I’m listening to one of the countless personality-driven morning radio shows on my way from (that’s from, not to) work recently when the subject matter worked itself around to the issue of black women. In particular, the issue was why so many...

Men Are The New Women

To Spank Or Not To Spank? (Hell Yes!)

Growing up throughout the 1970s and halfway through the 80s, many of the children I knew—myself included—received both love and consistent discipline in a less than sophisticated balance that made most of us Generation Xers appreciate...

What Is Love? - Part 2

After having posted my personal observations about “love” (the concept is still somewhat hazy to me despite my ability to analyze it objectively) last week, I suppose its only natural that I follow it up with an application of how corrupt our...

What Is "Love?"

I have Asperger’s Syndrome…I found out as an adult. It is, simply put a high-level functioning form of autism. It’s characterized by—among other things—trouble grasping emotional sets in others, and...