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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• Who backed the following policies, liberals or conservatives: Identity politics, assisted suicide, gun control, anti-smoking policies and extreme pro environmentalism? Most might say Liberals; actually, it was Hitler's Nazi party. Many say Hitler was a conservative; if so, he was to the left of a lot of liberals.

• Both conservatives and liberals will rely on police state tactics when it suits their purposes.

• Pop feminists took the teachings of their grandmothers, called it patriarchy and rejected it under the banner of women's liberation; now they blame men for the world their policies have produced.

• Immigrants will tell you how inferior American culture is to theirs, how much older and better the culture back home is. Yet, they are here and hope to raise their families here.

• To varying degrees people in the west are schooled in tolerance, and we tend to assume everybody thinks as we do. Hence, we simply do not apprehend how hard many eastern Europeans, Asians and Africans hate.

• African Americans have a lot to contend with, but at least they don't have to put up with the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

• When men open their hearts, women close their legs.

• Stalin's regime murdered far more people than Hitler's and Stalin reigned many more years than Hitler, yet Hitler is the one we recall as the preeminent genocidal maniac of the 20th Century. If we go by the numbers, Hitler should rank number two. (Some might take this to suggest we should piss on Stalin and dump on Hitler. Interpret it how you will.)

• Too many journalists lie or exaggerate and call it muck raking. Rake the muck, don't make it up.

• The white supremacists of the World Church of the Creator (or "Creators," as they refer to themselves) assert the races are separate species; yet, there are fewer genetic differences between the races than there are between the sexes.

• Essentially, the World Church of the Creator is a white supremacist version of the most primitive elements of the Jewish creed. Evidently, they believe two wrongs make one right.

• Anybody who says women are less competitive than men doesn't get out much.

• Buying off bullies is a pragmatic act that provides a small short-term reward but a big long-term penalty.

• Standing up to bullies takes time. For an employer, time is money.

• The "Creators" fear whites will lose out to non-whites for access to the "limited" resources of Earth. Like other fear-mongers, they ignore the virtual cornucopia of resources the Solar System offers.

• According to Mark Hamm, author of American Skinheads, violent skinhead groups have a history of being organized and led by women.

• When women do things together, it's called doing things together; when men do things together, it's called "male-bonding" and by that is meant a silly, frivolous, stupid man thing.

• In Washington state we have no cotton for blacks to pick, but we do have apples, berries, cucumbers and beans, and as a child I spent summers, along with busloads of white kids, picking berries for pennies.

• Many African American pundits complain police profiling is racist because it discriminates against blacks. The African American police officers in places like Detroit disagree.

• Sweat is healthy. It cleans the skin and reduces the load on the liver and kidneys. Yet most women are afraid to sweat and pop feminists blame this on men. Better to blame it on a cosmetics industry motivated by greed than a non existent patriarchal hegemony motivated by sexist power.

• Pop feminists blame men for the gullibility and greed of many female consumers.

• When I vote, I ignore the politics of the candidate and look at the heart and passion of the person. If their heart is true and their passion follows the same path as mine, then party lines are irrelevant.

• Most pop feminists are elitist snobs who look down on the rest of us.

• October 27, 1999, I stopped by the University of Washington bookstore to pick up the latest issue of Ms. magazine. Not finding it on the magazine rack, I asked the cashier if they carried it. She gave me a blank look, so I asked again. "What!" snapped the other cashier. I repeated my question. "We don't carry those kind of magazines," he replied with a sneer.

• Biological lesbians take offense at ill-mannered oafs of either sex same as most of us do. But women who are generally offended by the attention of men do so out of hatred and are cut from the same cloth as a mob of bigots at a torch light lynching.

• Women who fear men because "men are violent" are racist. The statistics pop feminists use to portray masculine nature as violent are derived primarily from a tiny segment of the African-American population.

• Too bad George W., like Bill Clinton, is unwilling to put America first.

• The primary reason the men's rights and equalitarian movements have not achieved the support and success of the pop feminist movement is because although we have noted and criticized the actions of the pop feminists, we have not hated them though they hate us. As Eric Hoffer noted in The True Believer, social movements can exist without belief in a God, but never without belief in a Devil (hate). Perhaps it's time the pop feminists stopped hating us, lest many of our less enlightened and more injured fellows begin hating them.

• Who really opposes studying the biological differences between the races? Maybe it's white supremacists who fear objective data demonstrating the advantages of racial hybrids.