>Harvey Mansfield vs. Naomi Wolf

>(REPOST FROM Wednesday, March 22, 2006) On Book TV this last weekend, Naomi Wolf and Harvey Mansfield faced off over his new book “Manliness”. And boy did she ever rip him a new one. Mansfield wavered and equivocated throughout the interview, clearly made nervous by Wolf’s capable onslaught. On the one hand he would make […]

>"Books not Bombs" isn’t the half of it

>(REPOST FROM Tuesday, March 14, 2006) A pretty interesting write-up on the UN-schooling movement appears in the Jewish World Review (http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0306/unschooling.php3). This goes beyond homeschooling – an alternative educational system that is even rarer than private schools and thought to be about as radical as it gets. UN-schooling does one even better (or worse depending […]

>Top Down Authoritarian Health Care Schemes for All

>(REPOST FROM Saturday, March 04, 2006) Sheila Kuehl, Democratic California Senator out of Los Angeles, wants to outlaw the voluntary (often called “private”) provision of health insurance in the state, replacing it with a compulsory state scheme (often called “public”) for universal health coverage. She would create yet another state agency: The California Health Insurance […]

>The military as frat house

>(REPOST FROM Wednesday, February 22, 2006) Laurence Vance of the Antiwar.com blog writes: Hedonists with Guns An ex-Marine wrote me with his opinion of the Marine Corps:”The Marine Corps is like a frat party in between the hard work. For the most part, they are irresponsible, alcoholic, sex addicts. The married Marines that I served […]

>On Pornography and its (ill?) effects

>(REPOST FROM Sunday, February 19, 2006) Ok, nothing mind blowingly incriminating here on the issue of pornography, but I just have an observation.Actually Pamela Paul, author of “Pornified”, has an observation, which she acquired secondhand from a somewhat famous study done in the 80s on the effects of porn conducted by social scientists Dolf Zillman […]

>Inadvertent support for free markets in an anti-capitalist reader

>(REPOST FROM Sunday, January 29, 2006) So I was flipping through a book called The Anti-Capitalism Reader today at work, and I found an interesting chapter on what is called “parallel economies” – economic networks that exist alongside and apart from the mainstream. What was fascinating is that what is discussed and supported in this […]

>NYT and Public schools – Part 2, then 1

>(REPOST FROM Saturday, January 28, 2006) Follow up on “Public schools…” (See below) I noticed this while reading the NYT article: “Over all,” it said, “demographic differences between students in public and private schools more than account for the relatively high raw scores of private schools. Indeed, after controlling for these differences, the presumably advantageous […]

>Abortion and the black market

>(REPOST FROM Monday, January 23, 2006) Charles Johnson of the radgeek blog (http://radgeek.com/) reminds us that this month is the 33rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The memoirs he relays from Susan Brownmiller among others shows us that at one time abortion was an underground medical procedure, complete with cop evasion and the black market […]

>Who discovered America again?

>(REPOST FROM Sunday, January 15, 2006) Apart from the earliest foot travellers into N.America, the debate over who discovered the Americas continues. This story, from the BBC, asserts that a Chinese admiral may have pre-dated Columbus in his discovery of N.America (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4609074.stm). It’s also known, though maybe not widely, that Vikings made it to New-Found-Land […]

>Welcome to D.H.O.

>The name of this blog is the name given to my former radio show on KDVS, UC Davis radio, Sacramento. For my first post, I just wanna declare my official departure from the rather bullshitty Myspace blog. (I mean really, trying to have a serious, politically oriented blog on Myspace is sort of like trying […]