Stockings, Social Identity, and The Destiny of the Sexes
By Alexander Rai10/30/2005
She stood there watching: One coy hand on her cell-phone, wearing a white shirt, black pleated skirt, black shoes, and off white stockings careening up to her inner thighs. She was cute.
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Name It. Claim It. Dump It
By Ann Weaver Hart10/22/2005
There are times when I feel like the world’s biggest failure. I read the display ads in The Economist for managers to administer UN projects to feed the poor, minimum qualifications, a doctorate in international affairs and 10 years experience in international aid programs, and I know I won’t ever get there.
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The impact of Schooling on Education: The dearth of a Post-Modernist Culture
By Alexander Rai10/16/2005
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”~Mark Twain.
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'The Sorrows of Empire' and the Founding of a New Rome
By Alexander Rai10/16/2005
In the third chapter ‘Toward the New Rome’, in his larger narrative ‘The Sorrows of Empire’ Chalmers Johnson writes “Not since the jingoists of the Spanish-American War have so many Americans openly called for abandoning even a semblance of constitutional and democratic foreign policy and endorsed imperialism.”
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'Fast Food Nation': The Danger of an Unexamined Appetite
By Alexander Rai10/13/2005
Eric Schlosser’s seminal expose on the potent ramifications of the Fast Food Industry offers the following proclamation: “The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”.
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What ends first:Globalization or the Multinational State?
By Alexander Rai10/12/2005
Globalization can never end. Indeed, the accelerated pace of change, like the boost of a cappuccino, the spirit of a shopping spree, and China’s current annual growth rate (8% approximated), will in certain course come to a halt. And while rapid change is certainly part of Globalization, Globalization itself as a concept is not just rapid change: its goal is sustainability.
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‘The Constant Gardener’: The Making and Unmaking of Human Legacy
By Alexander Rai10/12/2005
In the sprawling nature-scapes of Kenya an unnatural evil is unfolding: belying the graceful sojourn of the migratory birds, the copper-azure tinted primeval paradise- invoking the very beginning of time, reaching into Pre-History.
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Gay Marriage could affect...Rick Perry?
By Vivian Greentree10/10/2005
Last Sunday at church my friends Beverly and Jennifer had a re-commitment ceremony to celebrate their one year anniversary. They reread old vows and renewed old pledges. And best of all, their church family was there to be a witness to it.
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Intelligent Design is not science
By Daniel Pitt10/09/2005
Sometime in the near future, the Kansas Board of Education will vote on the teaching of intelligent design as a requirement alongside evolution in public school science classes. Recently, President George W. Bush announced his support for teaching intelligent design along with evolution, and recent polls show that 64 percent of Americans support such a change (whereas only 26 percent said they believed in natural selection, and 38 percent favored replacing evolution with intelligent design)1. It is becoming apparent that there is a good chance that this concept could soon be taught in public school science classes nationwide in the near future.
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Ahnold Bans Own Movies—Almost
By Jeffrey Perren10/08/2005
The irony of this one is almost too obvious to bear commenting on.
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