I was in my late 30s when New York State enacted what came to be known as the "no-fault pregnancy" insurance mandate. Prior to its inception, maternity/pregnancy coverage was an option, and those firms that carried it offered it only to married employees; that is, the wives of married me, and the married women, were covered and nobody else. The day the Mandate was enacted, my insurance premium quadrupled. Yes, QUADRUPLED. In vain did I protest that the only time I'd need Pregnancy Insurance would be if Wise Men were spotted parading down Main Street; they "needed" to grossly overcharge me for insurance to make up for the young women who'd immediately jump on board. Within one year, seven of the ten married women under 30 were pregnant.

So when does the appropriate party file the Articles of Impeachment? And will CNN cover it if they do?

The Sisters of Life have a mission in New York City and in Toronto, and they will help you regardless of your religion and even if you have no religion. And they will help you if you are the father of a baby whose mother doesn't know what to do next, or who wants to kill your baby against your wishes. Call them. They will provide you with what you need.

If you are in New York City, there is help for you. Call the Sisters of Life. They will help you -- whether you are Catholic, Protestant, Muslim or Atheist, whether you are rich or poor, young or old -- whether you are a mother to be or a father to be -- they will offer you what you need, be that a home, a job, medical care, food, clothing, shelter, prayers or all of the above. Call them right now. They will help you.

Jesus never said "Force your neighbour to feed My sheep." That is a duty that individual Christians are supposed to do. Recall the Good Samaritan. He assisted a man who had been beaten and robbed by thieves and left for dead; he treated his wounds with his own medicine, put him up on his own donkey and took him to an inn, where he paid with his own money for the innkeeper to look after him, and promised to make up for any extra that the innkeeper spent, the next time he came by. AND THEN HE WENT ON ABOUT HIS BUSINESS. Jesus seemed to think very highly of that man and suggested we imitate him. So do I.

It's past time to admit that men spend most of their waking time thinking about, talking about and chasing sex. From the advertising we see on TV and in magazines, there is a pandemic of droopy wee-wees stalking the world, and despite the drugs flying in to save the day, apparently men have decided that they must prove theirs does not droop, at all times and in all places. P.S. Anyone who believed that this would NOT happen when the "women in combat" rule was enacted should be shot into space, as he is clearly not of this Earth in his thinking.

Actually, private charities do a much better job at this kind of provision for the poor and needy than any government office ever could. In fact, the LDS church has one redeeming social value in this regard -- they have the best private welfare program in the world. Should a Mormon family hit a crisis point: sudden illness, loss of job, house or life; a delegation from the Relief Society (your neighbour women) arrives with emergency assistance and to make sure of what you need, and then the community provides for you and "makes you whole" -- which doesn't mean supports you forever. In return, you contribute 10% of your income to the Church, and you do volunteer work in the various branches of the charitable arms that helped you.

There are a lot of things I don't wish to see or hear as I go through life. It's my task to make sure I don't see or hear them, by removing myself from the locale in which they are being shown or spoken. However, I once turned round to address the two twelve-year-olds sitting behind me on the bus and asked, "Do you two realize that you end every single sentence you speak with 'and s**t'?" Both of them turned brick red and shut up.

How hard is it to open a box of Cheerios and pour a bowlful, add milk and sugar, and spoon it into your mouth? By the age of 4, most kids could manage that.

When i was in school, there were "free lunch" tokens available to kids whose parents couldn't provide for them. Lunch tokens cost 25 cents if you bought them. My parents were broke (which meant, Daddy explained, that we didn't have money right now) but they scraped up $1.25 a week for each of us to buy school lunch tokens because my parents said "We are not PO', we are broke." That is, free lunch tokens were a disgraceful thing and decent people would rather starve. It's too bad this attitude has declined.