Polymath's Guide to News and Ideas
West Point grads form gay support group
WWW.NAVYTIMES.COM : Thirty-eight graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., came out of the closet Monday with an offer to help their alma mater educate future Army... READ MORE
Washing machine liberated women most?
YAHOO NEWS : Feminists of the world sit down before you read this. The Vatican newspaper says that perhaps the washing machine did more to liberate women in the 20th century than the pill or the right to work... READ MORE
Communities Cite Impact of Immigration Raids
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO : Amid negotiations between Congress and the White House on a new immigration bill, the Justice Department. has stepped up the arrest and deportation of undocumented workers... READ MORE
Fashion's invisible woman
LOS ANGELES TIMES : The average American woman is size 14. Why is the fashion industry still pretending she doesn't exist... READ MORE
Israel's death squads: A soldier's story
THE INDEPENDENT : The Israeli military's policy of targeted killings has been described from the inside for the first time. In an interview with The Independent on Sunday... READ MORE
5 Ways People Are Trying to Save the World (That Don't Work)
CRACKED: ALL POSTS :Between the hybrids, the reusable canvas shopping bags and cloth diapers, everybody's doing their little bit to save the world...READ MORE
Blooms Away: The Real Price of Flowers
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN :Roses are red… They are also fragile and almost always flown to the U.S. from warmer climes in South America, where roughly 80 percent of our roses take root; to warm the hearts of European sweethearts... READ MORE
Why Love Is Our Most Powerful, Lasting Form of Activism
ALTERNET.ORG :People who want to see the world bettered -- made more just and honest and kind -- often set their gaze on the farthest horizon. Our instinct, as progressives with global perspectives... READ MORE
Political Corruption, Wall Street Frauds, and Sociopaths
THE HUFFINGTON POST :With so many media people manifesting amazement at the revelations about political corruption and Wall Street scams, one wonders if the media are really amazed or is the surprise just one more example of the fakery endemic in American society... READ MORE
Speaking in Tongues
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS :Hello. This voice I speak with these days, this English voice with its rounded vowels and consonants in more or less the right place—this is not the voice of my childhood. I picked it up in college, along with the unabridged Clarissa and a taste for port... READ MORE