After all the controversy, pro-life group Focus on the Family ran its Super Bowl ad yesterday. It stars crazy-successful college football player Tim Tebow and his mom Pam. When she was pregnant with him, she went against the urging of her doctors and chose not to abort him. Now she and her Evangelical husband believe Timmy is here to be a preacher, and playing football is not the end but a means to finding a platform.
Too bad the commercial is completely incoherent to anyone who doesn't know the backstory. It never says "abortion" or "pregnancy" or "choice." Instead, Pam Tebow speaks of her "miracle baby" and how many times she almost lost him. And then little Timmy, all grown-up, tackles her to the ground and they hug make up. And scene.
Valentine's Day can go from cute to cheesy with one ugly stuffed animal, yet most couples agree they should do something for it. If restaurants are too expensive or too booked and chocolate sounds trite — albeit delicious — here are eight other ways to celebrate Valentine's Day.
Watch the first movie you saw together: Rent it, download it, whatever. It's nostalgic, charming, and cheap.
Go straight to dessert: If dinner at your choice restaurant is too expensive, go there anyway but only for dessert.
Make a mix: It may be the oldest cheap trick in the book, but a playlist is thoughtful, fun, and free. Try 8tracks and Playlist to create easy — and legal — mixes.
Get thrifty: Head to thrift stores for something only he'll love.
Make a day of it: Feb. 14 is on Sunday this year, so put the emphasis on day instead of night. Play boardgames, order takeout, and stay in bed all day.
Anyone who's had an international lover or experienced the challenges of a long-distance relationship most likely enjoyed Google's Super Bowl commercial last night. In the spot, Google manages to show off its product without calling on the overused emasculated man theme. When it comes to innovation, focusing on romance instead of men suffering through relationships so they can get the car or beer they really want was almost more exciting than the translation tool, flight tracker, or other tricks the commercial shows off. Did the story of a long-distance love hit home for you?
Author George Leonard Herter started life as the humble heir to a dry-goods store in Minnesota but finished as raging misogynist. When he wasn't calling the pill "racial suicide" and saying men are a fine wine but women a whiskey ("The more they age the worse they get") in his 1969 book, he doled out marriage advice and other chauvinist nonsense. Here goes!
On sex
"At puberty and through the teenagers your strongest desire is to have sexual intercourse with almost any girl who will lay still long enough to let you. You can get a girl pregnant very easily if she wants you to . . . Either use contraceptives or have sexual intercourse with a girl you wouldn't mind marrying."
"Do not establish a nudist camp in your home but keep a natural body exposure around the house on a normal basis. Children, including boys, should see their mother nude wearing external menstrual pads."
On women
"All facts show that many women have built-in traits to nag, b*tch, insult, try to be cruel and try to be demanding. Such traits, of course, cause much divorce. Again a woman is not exactly like a Canadian goose, she does not intend, in the vast majority of cases, to mate for life."
The Super Bowl had its share of innovative (vote on your favorite at Buzz), and the usual male-targeted beer, car, pants, and soap-for-men ads. But several starred an all-too-common man in pop culture lately: the emasculated one.
Dockers calls all pantless — and underwear-wearing men — to "wear the pants."
Sad-faced men walk through a field singing they "wear no pants." So it's really convenient that Dockers is giving pants away.
While surely none of us would resort to drunk dialing our ex on Valentine's Day, I'm curious: does the imposed romantic holiday conjure up memories of your past relationships?
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