Remember the scenes in old cowboy movies when a gang of townspeople, gathered at the door of the sheriff’s office, gets all riled up, and then, one of them shouts out “Hang him!”? Then someone else gives brief thought to this idea and face red, arms flailing right and left joins in ranting, “Yeah, hang him!” This brings the unruly crowd to the breaking point, handguns and rifles go bobbing up and down, and you just know if this crowd isn’t brought to reason very soon, someone is going to get hurt.   more »

There have been rumblings both in networking chit-chat, on the internet, and in major newspapers and magazines: We have a male-dominated recession. According to Business Week, “From last November through last April, American women aged 20 and up gained nearly 300,000 jobs, according to the household survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. At the same time, American men lost nearly 700,000 jobs.”   more »