MEN-FACTOR

There is one experience from my youth that I must share before I blog about other things. It's been on my mind a lot lately. As my regular readers know, I was not in any way shape or form successful with woman in my youth. Read about it a bit here.
One day in those youthful years, my Mom tried harder than usual to pressure me to get a girlfriend (as though one can just happily prance into a dime-store and purchase one...).  She badgered me much harder than usual.  I was both too embarrassed and...

Has anybody else noticed that whenever you (as a man) presents a plight of modern man to women, the women immediately jump in and either disagree that is happens, or claim that it happens to women as well (at the hands of men of course)?
Case in point: A long time ago, I had a conversation with a private investigator.  He told me that each year he would see hundreds of young men with tech-degrees who suspected, and were 100% correct, that their "wives" were cheating on them.  He explained...

Here's a hint:  THEY ARE ALWAYS FALSE.
I offer this as a deduction.  The truth is typically painfully obvious - unless somebody is going to great lengths to hide it from you or otherwise obscure it.
Think of a bad used car that nobody wants.  A good salesman can CON weak-minded (or even not weak-minded) people into buying it.  And NEVER over-estimate yourself.  Nobody, and I mean NOBODY is immune to the powers of charm and deception (or for you...

Burning man is a week long festival that takes place in the Black Rock desert in Nevada the week before Labor day each year. Approximately 75,000 people attend it annually. I know this, because right before Labor Day, the area in Nevada in which I live...