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 of us actually need anything. We want any number of things, as you point out.One thing you didn’t mention in your discussion is the increased acceptance of the childless career…
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!
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, or kiss it goodnight. What is so important that they are worth killing for? It seems to me that there’s a fundamental failure in people’s thought processes that stems from…
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 9/11. Many do not, however, and a cool thing is happening in the blogosphere today – blog-based tributes to the victims who died that day. Here are some: Matthew Vianna,…
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 and virtually every other males-only organization in the country but now whine when the shoe they threw drops on them.
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 donate or keep to himself. No matter how one looks at it, property rights are for the living. … The disconcerting truth is that, after death, human bodies are as…
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 suspect, as the decision is already under appeal. Bill Frist says: “Terrorists are the real threat to our constitutional and democratic freedoms, not the law enforcement and intelligence tools used…
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 risk that a disaster will destroy Earth. Amen, brother.