Current Affairs

The New York Times Magazine has an outstanding article on American kids with HIV.  Most of them are teenagers now and confronting all the issues that teenagers usually struggle with.  Because the first babies with HIV didn’t live long, this is the first generation to make it to adolescence with HIV.  And, at least in […]

The city of Chicago is trying to curb prostitution by posting the pictures of men arrested for soliciting prostitutes. Chicago Police Department – CLEARpath – www.chicagopolice.org. How well it works is going to depend on what type of man usually visits a prostitute.  I would think factors that would make a difference are: Do they

The ice is melting in Alaska and some towns are in danger of being swallowed by the sea.  In this article, they talk about relocating Kivalina, a little town that we lived in for a year, Vanishing Alaska. When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers looked at relocating Kivalina, a nearby village of 380 people,

According to Paul Brown’s  What’s Offline column in the New York Times, people go through three stages in retirement: The traditional things people plan for in retirement – travel, new hobbies, gifts to family. After that, they settle back into the life that made them comfortable before they retired. In the final phase they tend

There is an article in the Daily News about how Nerds make better lovers.  While the article itself is some what interesting (there’s a website where you can find geeks who are looking for mates), the more interesting page was the conversation that nerds themselves had.  Check out the conversation on Slashdot | Nerds Make

Mat Miller in this New York Times Op-Ed column advocates for restructuring jobs to allow more work/life balance.  Jobs should be more flexible in order to allow people room and time to realize their passions both inside and outside of work.  I really liked his reference to weekends and minimum wage: Skeptics should recall that

The New York Times has a very cool graphic, How Class Works – New York Times, that displays the results of a data they gathered on social class.  Their theory is that class is composed of four factors, occupation, education, income and wealth.  Your social status is a combination of all four.  On this web

Wow!  Did you know that in seven states it’s illegal to live with a person of the opposite gender if you aren’t married to them?  I think that just goes to show how much our society is changing … I had a male roommate one summer in college.  It was no different to me than

I saw a quote in the New York Times today that I like. Herbert Hoover who said: "You know, the only trouble with capitalism is capitalists. They’re too damn greedy."