Apparently the error lines are tighter for women, they don't have to do much wrong (in comparison to their male counterparts) to earn public hatred. Like a re-enactment of the attempted stoning of the woman caught in adultery, it turns out that the most hated celebrities are female, and their male counterparts receive no such abuse (some of this gets picked up here).
Nothing highlights this more than the contrasting fortunes of the Beckhams (we forgive David his philandering but no such mercy is shown to his vocally undergifted wife) and the McCartney-Mills (with the Frog Chorus there is a case for leniency, not so if you pour a jug of water over your husband's lawyer).
What is curious is that there are women in the Bible, particularly in the New Testament whose stories might come close to those of Kerry, Heather, Amy and Victoria. However none of these women receive scriptural criticism. Indeed it is a feature of the New Testament that it nearly always refuses to criticise particular women - Martha is possibly the only exception and even there the situation is complicated.
Bruce Stanley's seminar on Happiness (download here) contentedly purrs with joyful anecdotes and blissful ideas-
That endings are important has been shown by research into Colonoscopies. When the probe was left motionless for the last minute of a colonoscopy, respondents gave a more positive review of the whole experience.
Anthony De Mello's "Happiness is uncausable", an insight that enabled Stanley to start to uncover his own pre-existent happiness, rather than attempt to manufacture the sensation by artificial means.
We all have a residual passive happiness that is 50% dependent on our genes, 10% dependent on circumstance and 40% dependent on voluntary behaviour.
One of the best things about Glasgow Presbytery last night (and it wasn't a bad night thanks also to Martin Johnstone and John Matthews) was Hans Kouwenberg, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.
He said that there was no other way for the Church to be, other than a local Church. Even the clerks and convenors (those from the "head shed") had to go to a local Church on a Sunday.
One of the best things about Glasgow Presbytery last night (and it wasn't a bad night thanks also to Martin Johnstone and John Matthews) was 
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