An old story but still poignant....

Women should say yes, yes, yes more

Forty years after liberated women felt able to say “no” to their partners’ demands for sex, they have been urged to say “yes” more often to keep their men happy.

Sex therapist and psychologist Bettina Arndt said different libidos were creating a generation of men who were “miserable, angry and really disappointed” that their need for sex was “being totally disregarded in their relationship”.

Read on at the SMH (via)

Top 10 confessions of a bad mummy

I don't believe a word of it!!!

1. Contrary to what we preach - we don't actually spend as much quality time with the kids as we let on.  Instead of doing the museums on a rainy day, we're more likely to use the inclement weather to embark on feverishly bidding on eBay while the kids watch the telly.

2. Because there are so many rainy days in England, in truth our children watch at least three times more TV than we admit to, and it's rarely educational, unless you count watching Rupert Penry-Jones on Jackanory Junior - which we find very stimulating.

3. We can sometimes only make it to 5pm before we need an alcoholic drink. Or we tell ourselves we'll be good 'till hubby gets home from work or when the kids go to bed, whichever is earlier.

4. We sometimes multi-task while having sex. So while the father of our children is focused on exquisite love-making, we can't stop ourselves from compiling mental lists. These include: meals you can make out of cauliflower before it goes bad; holiday destinations we can't afford, and TV cops we'd sleep with if our lives depended on it. DCI Gene Hunt - you know who you are.

5. If we could go on holiday by ourselves we would, but half the time we're not the only one who is paying for it, so we feel obligated to take the wage-earner (and offspring) along.

6. While we're with the four-year-old watching Dr Who, we're secretly fantasising about being his assistant.

7. We say we're working or catching up on emails when we're really on Facebook messaging old boyfriends and updating our status with a pithy aside. This is to ensure that old amours never discover our day off is sometimes spent slumped in front of Dickinson's Real Deals while the kids are at school.

8. Sometimes if it weren't for the kids, the dual incomes and the fact that there is someone else to take out the bin from time to time, we'd be sorely tempted to book a month's worth of babysitting and start dating again.

9. Hair. We've got lot more than we let on and not in a good way. In fact, much of our "leisure" time is spent bleaching/plucking/shaving and removing it by any means possible.

10. When we say that we really must go take kids to the theatre more often, it's usually because we've heard that David Tennant is doing Hamlet. Ditto if we choose to go (without them) to see a film with overly lofty aspirations. Let's face it; would you really want to see Revolutionary Road if it didn't star Leo and Kate?

(via)

Vatican says evolution compatible with the Bible

'Celebrating' 200 years of Darwinism....

Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican's culture minister, was speaking at the announcement of a Rome conference of scientists, theologians and philosophers to be held next March marking the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's The Origin of Species.

Christian churches were long hostile to Darwin because his theory conflicted with the literal biblical account of creation.

Earlier this week a leading Anglican churchman, Reverend Malcolm Brown, said the Church of England owed Darwin an apology for the way his ideas were received by Anglicans in Britain.

Pope Pius XII described evolution as a valid scientific approach to the development of humans in 1950 and Pope John Paul reiterated that in 1996. But Ravasi said the Vatican had no intention of apologising for earlier negative views.

"Maybe we should abandon the idea of issuing apologies as if history was a court eternally in session," he said, adding that Darwin's theories were "never condemned by the Catholic Church nor was his book ever banned".

Creationism is the belief that God created the world in six days as described in the Bible. The Catholic Church does not read the Genesis account of creation literally, saying it is an allegory for the way God created the world.

Some other Christians, mostly conservative Protestants in the United States, read Genesis literally and object to evolution being taught in biology class in public high schools.

Read on at the SMH

Hey, I'm proud to fall into a 'mostly conservative protestant' description. Guys, evolution is taught, as a given, in most schools. It is rampant in illustrating most school textbooks. Very few, give creationism a moments thought. 

Do teachers make a difference?

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Benjamin Button Home for Sale

The Garden District, New Orleans mansion, home to the now infamous Benjamin Button in one of this year’s box office blockbusters is now up for grabs. Featuring six bedrooms, six bathrooms, a library, music room and reception hall, this famous home place sprawls out over 7,600 square feet. "It's much nicer than what people saw in the movie," said real estate agent Dorian Bennett. "It's more like Tara than a home for old people."

 Sellers are asking a modest $2.85 million for the property. It is on the market in hopes of settling the late owner’s estate. Would you foot the bill?