The big news in South Africa is that President Jacob Zuma fathered a child through an extra-marital affair. The Christian Democratic Alliance of South Africa is calling for him to resign labeling Tiger Woods, Bill Clinton, and Henry the VIII all in one. This isn’t the first time Zuma’s sex life has been brought to [...]

David Brooks in The New York Times: “There is a specter haunting America: the specter of a saner, updated version of Ross Perot. He is lurking out there, ready to ride the free-floating anger and distrust of Washington. He is out there now in one of his homes or private jets, getting madder by the [...]

I required roughly fifteen different leads, a few medical and personal journals, a trip to the death and dying section of Borders, and a call to my grandmother to tap into the complex and controversial realm of euthanasia.

Slate‘s latest Dispatch article is an interesting piece on the safe drug use system in Vancouver (which is legal): Addicts arrive with drugs scored on the streets and inject them in a supervised environment, 18 hours a day, 365 days a year. A counter was laden with clean needles, sterile water, cookers, filters, tourniquets, alcohol [...]

Today The New York Times published a cool chart that shows the spending breakdown in Obama’s proposed 2011 budget.  The thing that really got me was that paying interest on our debt is a huge chunk of the pie.  To compare, it’s bigger than all educational and general science spending combined, which is a little [...]

Thursday night the Women Studies’ department hosted Gigi Durham, author of the recent feminist research on media sexualization of young girls. Her book, The Lolita Effect, alluding to Nabokov?s provocative novel Lolita, purports that: Pop culture and the advertising that surrounds it teaches young girls and boys five myths about sex and sexuality: -girls don’t [...]