<p>ESME Sister, Cornflakegirl is sick of your hypocrisy and wants to time you out! </p><p><br></p><p>Oh, Joshie. I almost feel sorry for the bastard. Did he imagine some clandestine meeting with a hook up on Ashley Madison where she didn't keep insisting how familiar he looks. He gets a huge Time Out for being the biggest hypocrite of the year, and humiliating his wife in the process. Not only does he lose his livelihood, but so does she. </p><hr><p><span style="font-size: 11px;">Image by Jim Bob Duggar [CC BY 3.0].</span><br></p>
<p><strong><em>Shocker! Ted Cruz was </em>almost <em>the son of a <a href="https://esme.com/voices/perspectives/whats-a-solo-mom" target="_blank" class="wordlink">Solo Mom</a>!</em></strong></p><p>In a recent address at Liberty University, presidential hopeful Ted Cruz endeared himself to Solo Moms everywhere by noting that if his father hadn’t found Jesus, he would have abandoned Cruz and allowed him to have been raised by a single mom. Was he expecting a collective gasp? Time Out, Cruz: Single parenthood is <em>not</em> a fate worse than death!</p>
<p>When Bill O’Reilly, television host of <em>The O’Reilly Factor</em>, responded to the Baltimore riots last April (following the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray while Gray was in police custody) with finger-pointing and sweeping generalizations about “young people who are uneducated, disrespectful, and unmotivated,” he was ignoring the poverty and community erosion that stunt prospects for young people, not just in Baltimore but across America. Take a time-out and read Robert Putnam’s <i><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Our-Kids-American-Dream-Crisis/dp/1476769893">Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis</a></i> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2015) for a nuanced perspective, Bill. </p><hr><p>Image via 360b/Shutterstock.com</p>
<p><em><strong>Solo Moms raise strippers and rapists? Say what?</strong></em></p><p>Conservative political commentator Ann Coulter has gone on record saying that "single motherhood is a recipe to create criminals, strippers, rapists, and murderers." Coulter needs a <em>long </em>time out to examine her need to make such an inflammatory, attention-grabbing, and flat-out false statement.<br></p><hr><p><span style="font-size: 11px;">Photo Credit: Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com</span></p>