Even in this sexually ‘open’ age, people are often worried because they've had dreams with a sexual content.

In particular, it can be very disturbing if, in a dream, you do something that would be totally shocking for you in real life!

For instance, a woman who leads an extremely chaste and respectable life may be troubled by dreams in which she has rampaging sex with dozens of handsome males.

Similarly, a man who prides himself on being 'straight' and who actually dislikes homosexuals, may be quite shattered to find that he has dreams in which he is engaging in sexual fondling with some good-looking guy!   more »

Hollywood Pumps Out The Crap

It's never a good sign when a studio declines to provide advance screenings of an upcoming release.

Even worse when reports of studio dissatisfaction with the end result and the hiring of a second director to re-shoot select scenes start to surface.

And you really know there's a problem when a studio allows a film to sit on the shelf for the better part of a year before finally releasing it.   more »

Although the PPP has released expensive advertising for Bhutto's homecoming, feelings against her are running high in some quarters.

Anti-Bhutto media have published a list of her, her husband's, and her children's declared assets: they amount to US$1.5 billion, including all Swiss accounts that are frozen because of corruption charges.

Western governments have long shown an affinity for shady characters in their attempts to organize the globe to their liking, though the strategy has seldom paid off in the long term.

Thursday's bombings point to enormous problems ahead if the West is to have its way in Pakistan.   more »

n crafting an electoral strategy, Kuhn envisions the Democrats not transcending divisive cultural politics, but playing into them through appeals to "traditional masculinity."

White male voters, he writes, are in a perpetual "search for the paternal," infatuated with the "gritty," "macho" character of Republicans like George Bush and Rudy Giuliani.

To truly compete at the presidential level, Kuhn counsels, Democrats must realize that "the personal manhood of presidents directly affects the support they earn."   more »

With the economy faltering, respect for the government nearly nonexistent, and the war in Iraq a disaster for the imperialists, Republicans and Democrats alike are encouraging racism and anti-immigrant hysteria.

They would like to deflect the attention of nonimmigrant workers from the real threats to their lives: the crisis of health care, the housing catastrophe, and underemployment, not to mention inflation and indebtedness.

Homeland Security could never pursue the policies of raids and deportation if workers were united, and racism was seen for what it is and has always been:

A tool to distract workers from their real enemies, the profiteers and the government that protects those profiteers.   more »