Top 29 cities by "AskMen.com" - Were they paid to write this trash?

It reads more like a list of cities that paid advertising to Conde Nast [which owns about 80% of ALL magazines in the world.]

This is a piss-poor piece of work, not even journalism but thinly veiled advertising. AskMen.com is an abomination on the same order as Maxim, another excruciatingly sexist magazine. Are men really only interested in which cities have the most single women? Come on, even swingers are home-owners too, and want to be able to work in the same city. Only an irresponsible wastrel would be more concerned about dating than employment, or is their entire audience 15 years old?

Articles like this remind me of my experiences in journalism, and what I view as the death of journalism in print media - of which the article is a prime example. Corporations have utterly absorbed all communication in the Western world. Governments and Institutions have surrendered all their responsibilities to the board room. The first thing that happened thereafter is that ALL newsrooms eliminated the laboratories, laid off investigative workers, and closed down smaller local offices.

Not every activity HAS to be a 1500% profit model. There are some businesses where a 10% profit model is not only acceptable, but DESIRED. The news is a public service, or it was. Now it's corporate media. Sure, with electronics you can expect a thousand percent, but that's not going to work in hospitals, universities, and news - because those businesses are NOT BUSINESSES.

A hospital is an INSTITUTION. There's an incredibly huge difference, and attempting to monetize an institution gets you where we are now: FAILURE. Education in America is 50th out of 50 top nations. Medicine in America is 29th out of 50 nations. We have the dumbest, and sickest, rich people in the world.

Way to go, Capitalism. Nobody believed Ayn Rand 40 years ago when she began her drivel and nobody believes her now, yet we've inexplicably got Capitalism everywhere - even where it SHOULD NOT BE.

America is A REPUBLIC. We are not a pure Democracy, and that's intentional. Our founding fathers knew that Democracies are inherently unstable and degenerate into mob rule, eventually becoming Fascist states worse than the original state overcome by Democracy! Thus the Republic was born. When we try to make America too much of a Democracy, the corporations take over because they are so good at mind-washing the masses. If only corporations could be regulated! Oh, that's right, they WERE...

And it was when that regulation was STOPPED that all our problems began. It's hard to feel sorry for America. We did it to ourselves.