In this column I pose questions and raise issues. I don't always agree with the conclusion, implied or stated. The purpose is to put a slightly different spin on each item and to promote discussion.

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• Another name for a Microsoft customer: bug addict.

• Without Clarance Thomas, Anita Hill would be just another face in the crowd.

• The one sure thing to emerge out of the case against President Bill Clinton is, Monica Lewinski will get lots of lucrative offers for jobs, speaking engagements, and at least one book deal.

• Some people look for sex in love. Some people look for love in sex. Some look for only one or the other. Some see sex as a sin and love as the only thing pure, while others see the former as a celebration and the latter as a laugh. The romantic, who sees sex through love's eyes, however, sees both purity and celebration.

• Having sex is like having food. Each is, of itself, neither respectable nor disrepectable. Both are merely necessary to biological survival. Excessive indulgence in either is unworthy. Appropriate indulgence, merely appropriate. But that doesn't mean we can't enjoy them!

• Men have ways of nurturing that are unlike women's. Ways which are special, unique, and as important to children, family, women, men and community as women's ways.

• In the feminist view, there are two types of men - sluts and losers - and two types of women - oppressed but in the revolution, and oppressed but in denial.

• If women are very good at loving, they are equally good at hating.

• Autonomy and community, discipline and rebellion, creativity and conformity, striving to overcome obstacles, solving problems and happy endings, all are American ideals.

• In marketing paradise, you pay more for less and less for more.

• The male tradition builds teams, the female, cliques. The female tradition focuses on family, the male, on the context of the family. The male identity is deeply rooted in congress, the female, in coalition. In the male tradition, you can be against us today and for us tomorrow. In the female, if you are against us today, you are unlikely to be accepted among us tomorrow. Together, the tension of these two traditions work to make possible communities, states and nations. Juxtaposed, they create chaos, confusion and polarity. During the past 3 decades, feminists have contributed much to the present polarization of our population.

• In private, your Constitutional rights stop at the door.

• Feminists all but shriek how women are oppressed by men's sexual interest in women, but were most men sexually disinterested in women, they would call that oppression, too.

• Feminists will forgive their own a multitude of sins, but condemn and hate forever all who oppose them.

• Do blacks who call one another "nigger" do so as a means to reinforce the notion white racism is still institutionalized?

• Lifeboat individualism: looking out for number one while your fellows suck deep six. Take a tip - don't let people like that on the boat.

• While citizens of most western European states have fewer freedoms in writing than Americans do, because their legal system is more rigid and their laws less open to interpretation than ours, many end up having more rights and a greater degree of liberty than Americans.

• Big wars start with little wars, and little wars start at home.

• With rare exceptions, you can count on a newspaper's lack of integrity.

• According to Public Service Announcements on TV, "every 2 hours a child dies of a gunshot wound." What they don't tell you is, most of these are teen age gang members.

• Many are afraid we are living in the last days as foretold in Christian mythology, but many more are afraid these are not the last days, and they will panic when life goes on.

• More than 25 years of Affirmative Action have failed. Proponents of AA say the answer is more of the same. We should remind them that one definition of insanity is expecting different results from the same action.

• Billionaire media mogul Oprah presents herself as a persecuted proponent of free speech. That would explain why she has twice kicked the soft-spoken George Gilder off her show.

• If women are more likely to feel unhappy with how they look, then why are men more likely to exercise? The answer: women are more likely to complain and express vulnerability because vulnerable women and invulnerable men get love.

• By feminist logic, women are oppressed by their dogs because they walk behind the dog.

• Those who evince the greatest dedication to diversity are frequently the most intolerant.

• Unabomber Ted Kaczinski chose a very bad way to make a very good point.

• The website for the Totem Council Girl Scouts in Seattle starts with, "Through a safe all-girl environment,..." which, of course, implies that coed environments are unsafe for females. We can only imagine the public outcry were a Boy Scout site to say anything like, "Through a safe all-boy environment,..."

• When men can no longer support women, women will have to fend for themselves, and that will suit the feminist agenda just fine.

• A woman who has any trouble getting a job is oppressed by the evil patriarchy, a man who has problems finding work is a loser.

• When a man is jealous it's evidence of his patriarchal obsession with controlling and dominating women; when a woman is jealous it's evidence of a neediness and vulnerability caused by her subjugation under patriarchy.

• When a woman or powerful man is vulnerable, it's endearing; when an average Joe is vulnerable, it's pathetic or played for a laugh.

• Crime & Punishment: Conservatives ask, what was it, who did it harm, and who did it? Liberals ask, who did it harm, who did it, and what was it? The rest of us don't care who did it. All that matters is, what was it, and did it cause harm.

• Men have wants, women have needs.

• In what sort of sick mind would the perversions in Melrose Place be considered normal?

• Most people choose to live a life that doesn't matter because complacency is easier and more comfortable than doing something meaningful.

• Having spent the past 30 years poisoning the relationships between women and men of their own generation, aging feminist women are now stealing their younger peers' men.

• A bit less than 2,000 years ago, a lot of women and men called Jesus a loser.

• A single step can start an avalanche.

• It is always easier to let someone else make the first move.

• It is easier to blame and shame than to love and accept.

• Feminists now define good nature as an under-developed sense of humor.

• Using credit cards as a way of life puts creditors in control of your life.

• Since when have bigotry and prejudice been characteristics of enlightenment?

• Anybody who says "all the good ones are married or homosexual" really means they are unable to recognize a "good one" who is still available.

• Kelly Flinn was hoisted on a petard of feminist manufacture. The new rage women hate it when that happens.

• How can Microsoft expect us to accept them as the standard when they don't even maintain standardization between versions of their own products?