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  • Nipple Rings ...

    I don't have a nipple ring, or any body adornment or add-on whatsoever unless you count contact lenses. I mean, I'm 51 years old, embarrassingly white, straight, northern European ... you get the picture. Yet I empathize far more with Mandi Hamlin vs. the TSA than I do self-styled ''liberal Republican'' William Saletan is his blog, ''Human ...
    Posted to Human Nature by jeffbot on April 18, 2008

  • Pooch ala Mode Against Abrahamic Faiths

    While I am not an expert on the religious laws of the 3 Abrahamic faiths, it is my understanding that all 3 oppose eating land animals that are carnivores. At least the Jewish and Islamic religious laws forbid this. I estimate that the more orthodox Christian denomitations would agree. In this sense, the religious text reenforce and hold up ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Usama2 on April 17, 2008

  • "Hole"ly Inappropriate

    I choose to be offended by the objectifying, denigrating, irreverance of Saletan's title. A 'hole' is a nondescript void in an otherwise solid mass or plane. Philosophically, a 'hole' offers no meaning, no value, only the absence of meaning and value. However, in applying this void to a context, it serves to denigrate. 'A hole in the head'- ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Usama2 on February 23, 2008

  • Re: Honor means blood

    Which lost its meaning of Honor first: the word, or the people? HONOR as used in the Middle East, refers to women, their reputation as chaste or not, and how that reputation affects her family. But America once shared that meaning. It used to be if someone insulted one's mother, wife, daughter, sister, to protect her ''honor'', you would go ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Usama2 on February 4, 2008

  • Its the IDEA behind the Systemic Problem, friend

    Usama2: ''... America... decriminalized all sex outside of marriage. You made all sex a public choice. You virtually removed all moral, religious, and ethical standards surrounding sex, except consent. You ignored the complimentary nature of the sexes, attempting to claim each sex is merely identical: as if Woman was just Aw and man was Am, ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Usama2 on January 28, 2008

  • Have your Cake and Eat it Too

    Of the many problems plaguing America, this is one which I have the least sympathy and harshest judgement towards America. Abortion? Teen sex? Abstinence? Viagra? You decriminalized all sex outside of marriage. You made all sex a public choice. You virtually removed all moral, religious, and ethical standards surrounding sex, except consent. ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Usama2 on January 25, 2008

  • Reaction to "Created Equal"

    I'm writing this email after a few weeks of intense reflection on Mr. Saletan's piece I am from Martinique, French Departement in the Caribbean. My mom is black. My dad's great grandfather was white. My mom is smarter than my dad, and is a doctor. I'm a PhD student in Civil Engineering. This piece caused me a lot of suffering, and all I ...
    Posted to Human Nature by geg1633 on December 19, 2007

  • Re: Every objection that has been posted...

    mdaf30:Every objection that has been posted thus far to Saletan's article is addressed in the articles that he links to the text. Clearly environment matters in the case of IQ. But all of the objections around culture, nutrition, education, parenting and such being the sole determinant of IQ are addressed and countered with a tremendous amount of ...
    Posted to Human Nature by haulinsacs on November 18, 2007

  • First things first: Slate is not a news site

    Slate often contains links to news sites, and does make its readers aware of facts, but is not a news site per se. It's really more of an opinion site, or a magazine (as the bar at the top of your screen will tell you). The reason Google seems to like Slate probably has more to do with the fact that Slate has several articles this week about the ...
    Posted to Human Nature by haulinsacs on October 23, 2007