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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• Microsoft's early success was built by the hard work of non-credentialed employees.
• In response to the challenges our education system poses to boys, feminist bigots scoff that women simply have more to offer the modern work place than do men. This is a far cry from the "toxic workload" rhetoric feminists used in the 1980s and 1990s to advocate feminizing the workplace.
• In the post-Beauty Myth era, make-up, cover ups, and body modification are more popular than ever.
• Men have a "mid-life crisis." Women just panic when they reach thirty.
• Prior to the widespread acceptance of Alvin Toffler's description of the future (our present) as an "Information Society," employers were expected to take an active part in grooming and guiding their employees. Now, unless a "forward thinking" employer has implemented a mentoring program, employees are expected to become expert at self-development and promotion, or resign themselves to a long, slow decline into mediocrity. How is this progress?
• A problem intentionally ignored cannot be solved. This axiom applies as much to society, as to the individual.
• In different ways, both modern liberalism and conservatism resist progress in areas which promise to improve both our quality of life, and standard of living. Why? Ideology.
• Pragmatism, as a methodology to optimize survival, has contributed much to our quality of life and America's success. But like any tool, it can be used for evil as well as good.
• Absent Hitler's evil regime, would America have still become a super power?
• Why are so many people who claim to be Conservative, on welfare or Social Security Disability?
• Some people are offended by the innate personality traits of aspies in the same way that racists are offended by skin color.
• Political correctness is the ultimate "chilling effect."
• Feminists accuse men of being incapable of or unwilling to communicate with women, but then, harassment, stalking and domestic violence laws often make communication a crime.
• Don't jump out of bed to care for a crying infant, and it will soon stop crying, go back to sleep, learn to sleep through the night, and learn self-reliance. What it will not learn, is empathy.
• Long fingernails - especially paste-on nails - are a low-class attempt to emulate leisure class styles of a bygone era. Meanwhile, short nails are gaining popularity among the upper-middle class.
• America is founded on as many vices as virtues.
• True believers on both the left and right seek out opportunities to be wronged, as it feeds their need to feel right.
• Why is the "conservative" George W. Bush to the left of the "liberal" JFK?
• Rather than identifying mainstream intolerance as a problem for aspies, being an aspie is labeled a disability.
• In the post-feminist wasteland, young American males are being so infantilized that "words will never hurt me" is being replaced with, "because your words offend me today, they justify the injury I inflicted yesterday."
• In the names of equality and women's liberation, feminists smile smugly when young men complain about being victims of sex discrimination. But pay back is just an ugly sentiment, not liberation or equality.
• The rest of the world may be amused to know that, in many segments of American society, knowledge is considered an insult and demeaning to the increasing number of Americans who are intentionally ignorant or poorly educated.
• At its most basic, a marriage relationship is a solution; feminists, however, have turned it into a problem.
• How much of hostile environment sexual harassment is less about real harassment than the reaction of a sick society to the efforts of an aspie, who, by definition is clinically clueless of sexual cues and signals, is reaching out for love?
• From the New TNN to the Man Show, the rash of new male-oriented programming panders to the politically correct stereotypes of men, most of which are based on teen age boys.
• The depth of insanity to which American society has sunk is such that to tell a woman you like her, simply that, nothing more, is now taken as a sexual come-on, while giving flowers to show interest, is all but condemned as sexual predation.
• An essential element of feminism's strategy to divide and conquer, is to break down communication between the sexes.
• An artist is more appreciated in death because, in life, others cannot profit from granting the artist recognition.
• In conversation with young male feminists, I am struck by how they are motivated more by anger toward other men than by any real desire to achieve an equitable society.
• JAG is a great Equalitarian show.
• The case of Ellison v. Brady established that women feel harassed by different things than men. This should have been a victory for equal rights. Ironically, however, ever since then virtually everybody, from newspapers, radio and TV commentators, to movies, novels, magazines and feminists, have assumed that men feel harassed by the same things that women do.
• The guilty fear the innocent.
• Loath though multi-culturalists may be to admit it, strict observance of multiculturalism mandates that they be as sensitive to and accepting of cultures they hate, as of those to which they pander.
• Feminists have made every male behavior so vulgar that a man can hardly say hello to a woman without it being seen as sexual in the rudest sense.
• American conversations tend to be A.D.D. - lots of sound, little substance.
• Abused children are victimized twice: first, by their abuser(s), then, as adults, by a society which wrongly stereotypes them as likely to become abusers themselves.
• Every great achievement starts out as a pipe dream.
• Traditional female culture, with it's emphasis on the constricted compass of care centered around hearth and home, appropriately excluded certain subjects in the interests of maintaining household peace. The male culture, however, with its focus on expansion and interaction among disparate groups, could not afford such luxury as to do so invited war, which is and has always been far too commonplace.
• The object of feminist conquest is the culture which created it.
• If vices, such as alcohol, tobacco and poor diet are individual choices, then the health problems they cause should be private, too. But if the public is expected to subsidize health care for these individuals, then the public should have a say in the bad habits that create those health problems.
• America's multinational corporations are all in favor of international free trade, as long as the average American is not allowed to participate.
• There are no ambiguities in nature, only relationships not fully understood.