Month: June 2005

I consider the education of our senses and our emotions rather more important than the education of our ideas. –Lin Yutang (1895-1976), urbane and charming man of letters who spent a lifetime explaining China to the West....

Tom Oliphant of the Boston Globe has a very itneresting piece today on the court case in which Rossi’s challenge to Gregoire’s election as Governor was heard.    The title of the piece is the same as that...

The grassroots of the Democratic Party fought hard to get Howard Dean elected as Chairman of the Democratic National Party despite the efforts of the DLC to keep the status quo. We won that battle. Over the last week, another...

Where to start with the fucking outrage? On September 11th, 2001 I was working at the Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton, NJ. I had a nine o’clock meeting, so at approximately 8:45 am, I got up from my desk and went outside...

Both are extreme measures to protect women from sex. Why do we have to be protected from sex? Too many predatory men? From South Africa we have this example: New device gives women teeth where it matters ‘It is a...