Online Bookmark Access!!!

Yay!   james_the_evil1 posted about this cool new yahoo site!  You can finally import your entire favorites list to an online source so you can access them from any computer with internet access!  I'm excited.  Check out http://www.del.icio.us and add your favorites!  Add me as a contact and you can see my bookmarks and we can even trade links!  I'm Joreth (as usual) there.

Monogamy is unhealthy...

james_the_evil1 posted this cool article, so I'm reposting it here and on my myspace page to spread the word:

http://coaches.aol.com/love-and-sex/feature/_a/dependence-on-marriage-stephanie-coontz/20061006102809990001

Too Close for Comfort

By STEPHANIE COONTZ, The New York Times

Olympia, Wash. — Ever since the Census Bureau released figures last month showing that married-couple households are now a minority, my phone has been ringing off the hook with calls from people asking: “How can we save marriage? How can we make Americans understand that marriage is the most significant emotional connection they will ever make, the one place to find social support and personal fulfillment?”

I think these are the wrong questions -- indeed, such questions would have been almost unimaginable through most of history. It has only been in the last century that Americans have put all their emotional eggs in the basket of coupled love. Because of this change, many of us have found joys in marriage our great-great-grandparents never did. But we have also neglected our other relationships, placing too many burdens on a fragile institution and making social life poorer in the process.

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