On the Nature of Things | Forum

The Green Party Platform, 71 pages. The Republican Party Platform, 62 pages. The Democratic Party Platform (2008), 59 pages. The Libertarian Party Platform, 7 pages. Here are links to the major US political party platforms. The impetus behind seeking these out was to help determine what positions a...

Semantic exercises such as this are disheartening; they constitute a sorry admission of the total inadequacy of human language to accurately convey concepts.

If Akin's words are stripped of their political and societal connotations, they can be seen as empowering and complimentary of women. Imbuing women with such discrete biological control over their bodies as to decide when conception and implantation will occur would make a great science fiction stor...

Five pages and all I have is a better idea of who is cut, who is uncut, or who might want to be, or wish they were not.

You people will argue the time of day.