Jon Stewart takes a close look at “Abstinence only sex education”
Jon Stewart takes a close look at some of the basic tenets of "Abstinence Only Sex Education" and finds this approach deficient.
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer fails the “I’m sorry” test regarding the prostitute.
Perhaps Elliot Spitzer was really sorry for having sex with a prostitute from the Emperor’s Club, but he failed the I’m sorry Test. Why? For two reasons. Because it wasn’t Spitzer’s turn to apologize and his apology was mis-directed.
It was George W. Bush’s turn to apologize, I’m fairly certain. Why do I write this? Because Bush has done each of the following:
- Plunged the U.S. into armed combat and an extended occupation of Iraq based on numerous lies.
- Mismanaged the medical treatment of veterans at Walter Reed.
- Mishandled Plamegate (Chief of Staff to the Vice President was convicted of perjury).
- Mishandled Iraq (assuming that we should have been there at all), due to lack of preparation for occupation, looting, including the National Museum, too few troops, lack of training, lack of equipment, lack of securing loose Iraqi munitions, disbanding the Iraqi army . . .
- Invited no bid contracts in Iraq, including to Halliburton and companies that provide mercenaries with little or no accountability.
- Encouraged torture, indefinite detention, the end of habeas corpus, and kangaroo courts.
- Mishandled the political firing of US attorneys.
- “Heck of a job, Brownie,”
- Authorized warrantless NSA wiretapping in October 2001.
- Allowed extraordinary rendition to facilitate interrogation by torture
- Maintained cozy corrupt relationships with K Street Lobbyists.
- Allowed Cheney’s Energy Policy and refused to divulge the oil industry participation.
- Encouraged financially irresponsible cuts for the wealthiest, big corporations.
- Denied of Global warming and its human causes.
- Attempted to disband the 911 Commission.
- Damaged to
Smear job on John McCain unjustified, unless…
It appears that John McCain has put himself into situations suggesting that he had an sexual affair with a 40-year-old female lobbyist. This politically devastating information can't possibly be relevant to the current presidential campaign, unless... Unless McCain has long-supported a political party that has consciously decided to make sexual…
Improving life by slowing down everything, including eating and sex
This article, by Ann J. Simonton of Common Dreams recommends that we slow down in order to better appreciate, absorb and enjoy all aspects of life. It isn’t just fast food that reminds us fast is not always better. The frantic pace of everyday life seems to impede our ability…
I am not a woman. Are you?
I realized this very recently, when several factors forced gender into awareness. In a psychology course a few quarters back, the professor asked the class to list the groups to which we each thought we belonged. My list looked something like this: “Student; Intellectual; Atheist; Independent; Skeptic; Young Adult”. As students read off their answers, I noticed a big glaring gap in my own response: gender. Most women had mentioned that they saw themselves as “women”. In fact, “women” was usually the group at the top of the list. I wrote this off as an example of how much I value my intellectual life over my more superficial life-on-paper. Or something.
Then one day, I became ensnared in one of my Hillary-Clinton-supporting roommate’s little tirades about women and power. He considers himself a big feminist, and he loves powerful women and the gender questions it creates. At one point he said something like, “When people look at you as a a woman-” and I quickly, instinctively replied, “But I don’t really think of myself as a woman.” He seemed to understand what I meant instantly- I see myself as a person.
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