Thursday August 26, 2004

Here’s an article for your consideration.

I open up this question to the peanut gallery: Thirty years after the peak of the women’s liberation movement, why are we all still stuck on this? Why does our society continue to have radically different impressions of sexually active men and women? What is behind the averge male’s simultaneous revulsion and attraction toward the promiscuous woman? I honestly don’t get it, so I’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts on this topic.

Tuesday August 10, 2004

An article for discussion: Left and Right in the Same Sorry Rut, written by David Boaz, vice president of the Cato Institute, published in the Los Angeles Times on August 3rd. It defines the key principles of libertarianism and points out why the two-party system is in its sorry state today in a very neat package.

Friday August 6, 2004

For anyone that has seen Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 or happens to care at all about the outside world, here is a brilliant refutation of the halfway-documentary’s primary points, written by Christopher Hitchens and published in Slate. (Thanks to a fellow Blue Hen Xangan for the link.)