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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• Do pop feminists and the Criminal Justice System actually expect us to believe that people who suffer from PMDD would never lie about or exaggerate claims of domestic violence?

• Irritable bowel syndrome is another malady which has drug companies producing bogus treatments. The most effective treatment is hot water. No, silly! You drink it. Not so hot it scalds, but hot enough to be uncomfortable. Long swallows. This causes the bowels to begin contracting normally and stops the cramping. No, I'm not a doctor and this is not medical advice. But when I wake up with a bout of irritable bowel syndrome, this is what I do and it works.

• Pop feminists dismiss surveys indicating women commit as much violence as men on the basis that the studies employ the Conflicts Tactics Scale and, hence, look at domestic violence during an instance of conflict (frequently initiated by men), while men, they contend, strike women out of the blue - no conflict needed. What they conveniently ignore is that when men "strike out of the blue," it is often within a continuum of conflict, or nagging.

• Evidence suggests women have a lower tolerance for conflict as they will often strike out in response to a single instance of conflict, whereas men, having a greater tolerance for conflict, allow their frustration to build up over an extended period before striking out.

• Most women will readily agree that loving a woman makes a man a better man, but thanks to the pop feminists' anti male campaign, most were never taught or have forgotten the other truth, that loving a man makes a woman a better woman.

• As I walk up the hill after work to where I park my car in downtown Seattle, not a week goes by but when two or a few black men will loudly take up a conversation about the racism of whites just as I go by. Sometimes, if I'm not too tired, I'll reply, "What a racist thing to say!" But it doesn't do much good for just me to do that.

• As a condition of employment many companies require employes to sign non-disclosure agreements which go beyond guarding trade secrets to restrict what employes may say about the company even on their own time. The question corporate executives don't want anybody asking is, doesn't that infringe our First Amendment rights?

• For every restraining order violation there are roughly 5,000 custody and access violations in Ontario. - Ted

• In the modern environment of "world class" business service, corporate executives have discovered that the key to fewer customer complaints is to lower customers' expectations.

• Studies that only survey women about men are basically as unreliable as asking cats about dogs. - John Hand

• Pop feminists perpetuate their war against men with propaganda such as "women earn 70 cents on the dollar what men do." This statistic is obtained by taking the total income earned by all the women in the US and dividing it by the total income earned by all the men. And it is like dividing the total annual income of Elizabeth II and her family by the total annual income of all other British subjects and taking the resulting tiny percentage as proof of discrimination against the Royal Family - the raw number may be absolutely correct, yet it is utterly meaningless.

• We are the thoughts of God. Can thoughts impose limits on the thinker?

• Many years ago, when the first European-American explorers and a few missionaries penetrated the American interior, the missionaries were frequently astonished by the respectful receptivity of many American natives to the gospel. Frequently, however, their astonishment turned to horror when the respectful natives returned the favor by telling their story. The wisdom of their view was that each culture writes its own stories to explain existence and find meaning in their lives.

• The average (female) prostitute has 694 male partners per year. - Seattle P-I

• In the Introduction to the Department of Justice's Agenda For The Nation, they cite the following: "13% of female adolescents had been victims of sexual assault at some point during their lives." (Prevalence and Consequences of Child Victimization) What they leave out is that this report also says: "young males had significantly higher rates of physical assault than females -- 21.3 percent versus 13.4 percent."

• While the Demopublican and Republicratic presidential candidates debated over whether Dick Cheney or Joseph Lieberman will preside (what, you don't believe in the essentially self-fulfilling Death Cycle of Presidents Elected in a Zero Year prophecy?) over America's continuing the trek toward the day when America is a province rather than a republic, what were more than half of TV-watching American citizens thinking about? Baseball & Dark Angel. The Caesars of ancient Rome knew the formula for keeping the masses in line: bread and circuses. The medium has changed, but the formula is still the same.

• Who won the October 3, 2000, Presidential debate? That's easy: the Democratic and Republican candidates won, and the public and third party candidates lost.

• In the 1970s during the "gas shortage" the Federal government imposed a lower speed limit on the freeways to conserve fuel. When a single motorist successfully refuted a speeding ticket on grounds that speed limits had to be based on safety, not fuel conservation, he won the battle but lost the war as the government changed the wording to say the limits were for safety. Since then, smaller cars have been engineered to get their best mileage at speeds over 70 miles per hour. Yet the old limits persist and traffic congestion, and the increased fuel consumption it causes, grows worse every year.

• Social Security is a debt, not a trust fund. The money we pay into it goes to current recipients of benefits; anything left over goes into the general fund. There is no vast pool of money in Social Security.

• Pro-Choice advocates say they oppose government interference in their private lives; surely, a sentiment with which serial killer Ted Bundy would have agreed.

• Essentially, there is no difference between men with flashy cars and women with breast implants.

• The real difference between George Bush and Al Gore: Gore will say almost anything to get elected, while Bush will say almost anything to get elected.

• Among the many criticisms Republicans aim at Al Gore's health care plan, one is the jeer Clinton-Gore have done nothing in the way of health care, so why believe Gore now? Personally, I don't care for Gore's plan, don't like it one bit. But I like the Republican's half truths even less. Let's remember it was the Republicans who killed the Clinton's efforts to revamp health care in America. Yes, the Clinton plan was a terrible idea, but to dismiss Gore's plan on the basis they did nothing during the Clinton-Gore watch is propaganda pure and simple.

• Proof women control language: Menu: they consume us; Manual: they use us. Okay, ridiculous, but no more than the pop feminists' complaints about history vs. herstory, etc.

• Men "abuse," women "nag." The pop feminist pandering press vilifies the former but shushes any mention of the latter.

• When women call a man a "cheap date," they mean he does not spend enough; but when women call another woman a "cheap date," they mean she does not demand enough. Either way, it sounds a lot like prostitution.

• Women are more willing to appeal to authority, men are more willing to be authority. Pop feminists oppose men being authority, thereby removing authority from the most fundamental social levels and forcing women to appeal higher and higher, which ultimately leads to a breakdown in authority and social order.

• It's really suspicious how, just 9 days before the Senate was to vote on including (female) gender in federal hate crimes legislation, a gang of men assaulted and sexually assaulted scores of women in Central Park in broad daylight. Almost like it was planned.