On the Myth of Inherent Female Bisexuality
Freudian psychoanalysts held that all people, male and female, are born bisexual and like a light switch held between on and off, will usually fall into one of two extremes. Freudians, on the whole, did not consider homosexuality to be an aberration or sickness in and of itself, but that societal pressures would undoubtedly contribute [...]
...read morePossible Solution
We all need to pitch in to buy Lauren and Jill new laptops and bus fare to Las Vegas.
...read moreAnd the SCOTUS Ad War Begins
NARAL Pro-Choice America is running a blistering ad campaign against Bush’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Roberts. It can be viewed through this page, which also includes the details that couldn’t be shoved into a 30 second spot. It appears that the tables have turned somewhat in the propaganda battles, because the response from the PFA [...]
...read moreThy Virginity Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks.
From the Catholic Church’s press release factory, we have an update on federal funding for abstinence-only sex education programs, titled To Abstain or Not to Abstain. On June 9 the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies approved an increase of $11 million in abstinence funding [...]
...read moreWhen Terrorism Works: Hiroshima & Nagasaki
As the Manhattan Project was nearing its end around this time in 1945, Leslie Groves asked George Marshall to designate someone to direct the task of deciding which cities would be the targets of the United States’ shiny new weapon. Marshall responded, “I don’t like to bring too many people into this matter. Is there [...]
...read moreHorowitz: The Man from Self-Victimizationville
Getting Some Business Out of the Way, or The (Much) Shorter Version of What Happened Last Night No pies.† No streaking. Lots of heckling and a few protest signs. Horowitz did not convince me of the necessity for a Hoosier Academic Bill of Rights (HABR). The Longer Version, In Which I Realize that Horowitz is [...]
...read moreThe Devil’s Tongue
As a supplement to Alley Rat’s upcoming post on Kerner’s She Comes First, I offer a post about a tongue. A plant’s “tongue”, that is. Yesterday, a specimen of Hydrosome rivieri, one of a a class of plants commonly referred to as the “Devil’s Tongue”, bloomed here at one of the greenhouses on the Indiana [...]
...read moreHorowitz Is Coming to Town
Bloomington that is. You may know my feelings on David Horowitz and his meddling in Hoosier affairs. He’ll be here on the Indiana University campus this Thursday for a stop on his whirlwind “Silencing the Liberal Majority” Tour. Here’s the listing from the Union Board: Date: Thursday, April 7, 2005 Time: 7 p.m. Location: IU [...]
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