Does your love life comply with state regulations? You may be surprised.
Say you live in Washington state, and you find yourself getting to know and becoming attracted to your dental hygienist–or for that matter your optician (that’s the person who fits your eyeglasses, based on the prescription provided by your optometrist). You’re interested in a [...]
Archive for January 24th, 2007
The Lonely Optician
January 24, 2007Carnal Knowledge | In making a match, must men really try harder?
January 24, 2007In an article titled, “Why Women Aren’t Funny” in this month’s Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens writes, “The chief task in life that a man has to perform is that of impressing the opposite sex. … Women have no corresponding need to appeal to men in this way. They already appeal to men. …”It doesn’t quite [...]
Islam and the West
January 24, 2007The Islamic scholar Gudrun Krämer discusses tolerance and freedom of religion among Muslims, the role of the Crusades and colonialism in today’s conflicts, and the mistakes made by Western critics.Something is rotten in the relationship between the Islamic and Western worlds; there is a diffuse but pungent odor of fear and mistrust. The unease has [...]
