Is there a “Baby Boycott”?
by David Broussard responds to Stephanie Mencimer’s article. My 2 cents: David, your comments are quite inciteful. Americans’ definition of “need” is wildly distorted; very few …
Category: Society
Polimom – It’ll be OK (in Bush’s version of 1984)…
Polimom, one of my favorite new feeds, say’s it’ll all be OK under the Bush terrorist detainee soon-to-be-law. Wunderbar!
Immigration / Iraq / Islam / Politics / Society
Ideas: Disagree and Die
What is it about people and their ideas that makes rejection so impossible to accept? We can’t touch an idea, hold it in our hands, …
5 Years Later
Americans often have short memories, as shown by a recent CNN poll that people are shifting their blame from Clinton to Bush in regard to …
The Future of Food
Rick Strahl writes an pretty good, seat-of-his-pants programming blog. But today he’s talking about the commoditization of food. Scary…
A Female-only College No More
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College is going co-ed, to the dismay of its students. It’s amusing as hell that chicks broke down the door at the Citadel …
3 Years Ago…
…I wrote this slam in response to a newspaper column by Ana Veciana-Suarez about child care.
Mandatory Organ Donation
Elizabeth Chapman says that “Organs should belong to public, not deceased“. The thing is, after a person dies, the body isn’t really his own to …
Illegal Wiretaps Bad…Ya Think?
The Constitution got a bit of good news today as a judge invalidated W’s illegal wiretapping operation. This isn’t the end of the story, I …
Stephen Hawking: We Must Colonize Space
Stephen Hawking says the survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there’s an increasing …