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  • Akbar Ganji on Gender Apartheid in Iran

    Great piece. Leading Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji wrote an article for Boston Review in 2007 looking at exactly these issues. ''Half a Man: Notes on Gender Apartheid in Iran'' -- http://bostonreview.net/BR32.6/ganji.php
    Posted to Foreigners by BReview on June 23, 2009

  • Democrats Are Taking Office -- Time to Party!

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M65zI9LH-as Democrats Are Taking Office -- Time to Party! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M65zI9LH-as
    Posted to Chatterbox by MichaelBernard3 on January 8, 2009

  • Sexual Hypocrisy, Law Enforcement & the InterNET

    Thanks for a very interesting and thoughtful article that addressed current events, came up with new approaches, and put it all together neatly in one, entertaining article. My view on those folks who would employ our law enforcement authorities to charge and convict individual InterNET users, is somewhat different. I see these forceful, legal ...
    Posted to Human Nature by MichaelBernard1 on July 8, 2008

  • Pay Day Loan Mis-information

    For those of you who value your freedom to make your own decisions in regard to your finances, and how you pay your bills, please read my Blog, ''Pay day loan mis-information''. There are people, including reputable news writers, who do not fully understand pay day loans, who are spreading mis-information.Lawmakers, and politicians, are buying ...
    Posted to Politics by bruceberquist on March 30, 2008

  • Race and Gender in the Coverage of Presidential Politics

    I perused the site for provocative comments from women on how race and gender are driving the election but found few. So chew on this candid perspective in response to the media's slicing and dicing of votes by race and gender to death. Just as it is preposterous to perpetuate the opinion that most Hispanic males wear casual Polo Ralph Lauren ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Suede on March 2, 2008

  • Re: Birth Control in Schools

    To begin, I think that the point made by Jannipur about how educating girls to say no to sex is a sexist behavior is well made. I also find that Antistokes' argument about other legitimate uses of the pill is too often forgotten in these sorts of debates. That your daughter goes on the pill doesn't mean that she's having sex. That said, I think ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Suchie on October 21, 2007