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Articles Posted by BudgieRamone

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  • What Kind of Gun Would You Like to See Made? (Shameless Vanity)

    06/09/2006 3:02:22 PM PDT · by BudgieRamone · 35 replies · 636+ views
    myself | Jun 09 2006 | Budgieramone
    Okay gun enthusiasts, ever have one of those days where you think "Gee whiz, it would be cool if someone made a...." Here's your chance to sound off. Maybe you'll luck out and some savvy person in the gun industry will read this post and say "Yeah, thats a good idea let's try adding that to next years lineup!" well okay ...or not. Have fun tho' and remember it's a wish list, so all those stupid rules on barrel length, full auto, and that wtf classification AOW don't apply!!
  • What Happened to All the Great (and Not So Great) Music videos (Vanity)

    04/30/2005 1:45:08 AM PDT · by BudgieRamone · 3 replies · 342+ views
    meownself | April 30 2005 | BudgieRamone
    Ok Its early Saturday morning, I am ill (fighting an unusually persistant cold), cussing out my .mp3 software, and pondering what ever happened to the music videos they played on MTV? It seems to be slow so far today, so humor my vanity please. Really heavy pondering, Right? Well consider this, at one point and time MTV used to actually play music videos. Shocking, right? Some place out there are the songs and videos that some of us learned to enjoy when mom and dad turned their backs on us, and the "You will NOT watch that channel" laws vanished...
  • Why We Cheat (feminist justification for women cheating on men)

    07/15/2003 5:58:09 AM PDT · by BudgieRamone · 46 replies · 1,093+ views
    New York Post Online Edition ^ | July 13, 2003 | Susan Edelman
    <p>July 13, 2003 -- More women are cheating on their husbands - and doing it without remorse, sex researchers say. A stunning 90 percent of adulterous wives told one Manhattan researcher they suffered "no guilt," but rather felt "entitled" to the pleasure and excitement of their secret trysts, said Susan Shapiro Barash, a gender-studies professor and author.</p>
  • Studies shatter myth about abuse

    06/23/2003 4:45:32 PM PDT · by BudgieRamone · 58 replies · 276+ views
    USAToday ^ | June 22, 2003 | Karen S. Peterson
    <p>WASHINGTON — It is not just men who hit women. Women hit men, too. And the latest research shows that ignoring the role women play in domestic violence does both women and men a disservice. There is little doubt that women get hurt more than men. She may slap him. But then he may hit her harder or more often.</p>