People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want the….

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it..

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money..

From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold ….

The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. It creates a lot of anger and emotional hardship. People may bec….

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests..

Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepr….

The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality….

The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress." --Barbara Ehr….

The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search the….

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why no….

I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You'….

A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America.

Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist..

Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's….

Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or genera….

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things..

There is a reason why America produced the most vigorous feminist movement in the world: We were one of the only countries in which the middle class ….

while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill th….

I'm not a nice person..

America is addicted to wars of distraction..