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(10/31/02 5:00am)
Open season on one's political opponent winds to a close on Tuesday, and I can't say I'm sorry. I will try to sneak into my voting precinct without triggering the campaign toadies who crouch at the chalk circle marking the minimum distance from the polls at which campaign activities may take place. But as I draw near, I know they will spring upon me, waving flyers in violation of the spirit but not the letter of the law.
(10/17/02 4:00am)
"Caution: Church Van," read the rear doors of the vehicle in front of me at the traffic light.
(10/03/02 4:00am)
Recently, in the waiting room of a doctor's office, I picked up a women's magazine and, to my astonishment, discovered the existence of an apparently well-known phenomenon called "the mommy wars:" the mutual disrespect the two sides--moms who do market, or "working moms," versus non-market work, or "stay-at-home moms"--hold for each other's choices. In a nutshell, moms who work outside the home think moms who stay home lack ambition; moms who stay at home think moms who do market work selfishly pursue careers at the expense of their families' well-being.
(09/19/02 4:00am)
Two weeks ago, I criticized the tactics of the NAACP in its attempt to remove the flag from the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse. This criticism is lopsided--the NAACP is not the only irrational party in the flag debacle.
(09/05/02 4:00am)
The Confederate flag debate dribbles on. South Carolina's only Fortune 500 company is duking it out with the state's most visible flag supporter, Maurice Bessinger, whose barbecue restaurants feature a nauseating display of Confederate flags. Read Sunday's Washington Post if you care for the details; I don't. However, because many at Duke hail from places far away, I would like to offer a few insights unavailable to most outside people South Carolina.
(06/06/02 4:00am)
Kids are getting fatter. The culprits are the same ones that plague adults: Sedentary lifestyle and junk food. Given the slow progress in addressing vending machine temptation at schools, it appears a school-based intervention will have to address childrens' inactivity. Unsurprisingly, many advocates call for daily, more demanding gym classes. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been calling for such measures as long as I can remember. I had always disagreed with him until recently.
(03/19/02 5:00am)
In addressing conservatives who oppose gay adoption, I make no appeals to gay rights or the legitimacy of the "homosexual lifestyle" (however you define it). I wouldn't change anybody's mind on those issues, so I'm not going to waste space trying. If gay people have to wait for all of society to accept their choices before they can adopt, both objectives--acceptance and adoption--will be delayed. If gay adoption can be demonstrated socially desirable without forcing everyone to accept homosexuality, both acceptance and adoption will be accelerated.
(02/28/02 5:00am)
The Woman Who Liked To Make Vaginas Happy said, "I love vaginas. I love women. I don't see them as separate things." With this unfortunate observation I wondered how an audience so enraptured with The Vagina Monologues as Duke's--and apparently the rest of the country was--could possibly be receiving this "art" with a discriminating intellect.
(02/07/02 5:00am)
I use the occasion of Black History Month to look at the progress of the black civil rights movement. Although I do not find it appropriate to single out a particular race for a month of history celebration, I do support events that get people talking about social concerns so important as race relations.
(01/18/02 5:00am)
One of the things higher education is supposed to teach us is that knowledge is its own reward. We know, of course, that knowledge has other rewards, such as recognition and money. Private firms are interested particularly in the latter, and where firms deal in intellectual property, patents are one of the few means of guaranteeing compensation for the resources involved in gaining knowledge.
