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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• Inflation is not the only economic bubble that can produce a false prosperity.

• More than 30 years ago a new economic phenomenon occurred that had profound yet generally ignored economic consequences: women entered the workplace in record numbers. This increased the supply of labor relative to demand. If demand for a thing (like labor) grows at 5% per year while supply suddenly surges at 10% per year, the demand per unit of supply goes down. That is, the price goes down. Hence, the two-career family that started as women's liberation became a necessity and even with two incomes families still felt the pinch. During the past few years, however, supply has more or less stabilized while demand has continued to grow.

• Many women believe it is okay, even admirable, to hurt another's feelings in a way that cannot be directly attributed to the perpetrator. Any scheme to address domestic violence which ignores this will fail.

• In the pop feminist paradigm, any attempt by a man to establish himself on an equal romantic footing with a woman is oppressive, and any overt attempt, harassment.

• People who act in your interest are your friend; those who act against it are your enemy, and those who do neither may be your friend but are not your enemy. Too many reject the first, suspect the last and embrace their enemies.

• People seldom get what they deserve. Socialism is intended to assure no one gets more than they deserve, Free Enterprise is intended to assure you and the person you are dealing with right now get what both of you agree you each deserve, and Capitalism is supposed to assure everyone gets as much as they deserve. Both socialist and capitalist economies, however, demonstrably allow a few to have way more than they deserve. Which leaves free enterprise: a hard thing to regulate.

• Few leaders are self-absorbed; most followers are.

• Many have criticized pop feminist leaders for standing by President Clinton when in his personal conduct he has violated every principle they espouse. There is, however, a very good reason for their continued support: a media obsessed with the president's policies and peccadilloes ignores (1) our ongoing efforts to expose the androphobes' bigotry, and (2) the consolidation of pop feminist power in both the public and private sectors.

• Pop feminists have long supported women's right to bare their breasts and nurse where I can see, and I have no problem with this as long as they do not protest when I do see.

• In the normal evolution of human contact with a virus, those who have been exposed to it the longest also have the highest immunity and oldest survivors. If HIV originated in Africa, then why are the oldest survivors and highest immune levels in America?

• Monsters are a human creation.

• White male privilege: the expectation of fairness; white female privilege: liberation on a pedestal; African American privilege: knowing whitey can be intimidated by accusations of bigotry; Asian American privilege: the Kung Fu mystique.

• All races have a history of war and conquest. Some more recent than others. In America, one difference between the races is, the European Americans know they are descended from invaders and interlopers, and most care about that. Most Asian and African Americans, on the other hand, either don't know or don't care that, like the whites, they, too, are interlopers in this land.

• Western countries are possessed of a growing population of middle aged women who are bitter and alone.

• The pop feminist agenda may win the day in family courts who award custody to the mother, but when the children grow up and make choices on their own, what then? Will they thank their mother and the court for making them fatherless? Or after they have children of their own and are able to peer through the eyes of experience behind the veil of divorce court deceit, will they have other, less kind words to say?

• Pop feminists say gender is about power. What they really mean is, pop feminism is about power.

• Women know the tactics women use but don't like it when men talk about it.

• With the problems plaguing the space shuttle Columbia during mission STS-93, led by Commander Eileen Collins, sabotage seems possible. Assuming so, how would pop feminists profit from sabotaging the first shuttle mission commanded by a woman?

• As an American Indian I am neither more nor less offended by the Confederate flag than the Stars and Stripes. To the contrary, they are separated by a minute degree of difference in symbolizing for me more tolerance, greater enlightenment, and higher ideals than those found throughout most of Europe, Asia and Africa. Anyone who carps the Confederate flag symbolizes bad things has but one agenda - to garner power and prestige for themselves at the expense of one of the finest nations in history.

• Who would profit most from the death of John Kennedy Jr.? Who would profit by it almost as much? Who did John oppose? Who that was recently close to him has also died untimely like?

• In my experience, many women become very angry when a man rejects them. So it should be no surprise when many women expect a man who is actually sad to be mad when rejected. Projection is an ugly thing.