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...collection of new global-warming books is hitting the shelves in response to that awakening interest, followed closely by TV and theatrical documentaries. The most notable of them is An Inconvenient Truth, due out in May, a profile of former Vice President Al Gore and his climate-change work, which is generating a lot of prerelease buzz over an unlikely topic and an equally unlikely star. For all its lack of Hollywood flash, the film compensates by conveying both the hard science of global warming and Gore's particular passion...
...Caldwell also speaks of depression as if it is the muse of all creativity and something that should be cherished, not treated. The truth is that depression is a debilitating medical illness. I hope that Ms. Caldwell speaks with an individual who is clinically depressed and witnesses the effects of depression first-hand. Perhaps such knowledge and experience will spur her to rethink her baffling argument that depression is “interesting” and happiness is “boring?...
...study in 2000 determined that children tend to play with sex-appropriate toys (i.e., boys with trucks; girls with dolls) regardless of societal or parental interference. The study’s conclusion? Sexual differences result not just from social pressure, but also from innate physical and hormonal makeup. The truth is somewhere between nature and nurture: men and women have been designed by some invisible, selective hand to tend to think and act differently, and these tendencies are hammered home by an often discriminatory society...
Nevertheless, biology is not destiny. Women are not doomed to a life of inadequate spatial reasoning skills as a function of the existence of their second X chromosome; similarly, men can learn to ask for directions, despite their competitive drive and instinctive compulsion to appear invulnerable. The truth of the “inherent” differences between men and women is that they are subtle and by no means universal. Because of the immense overlap of ability between men and women, variations between the human genders are more a matter of degree than kind...
...transfers. Is there a silver lining? Not really. Fuck this “neighborhooding” bullshit!!! All it does is ensure that you can live near even more people that you will probably end up disliking. Not like you’ll see them anyway—the truth is that if someone lives in a different entryway, let alone a different house, you will have almost no inclination to see them unless you need to borrow Drumline or some equally hilarious Nick Cannon DVD. “I Want to Be Quaded”: The Fallacy According...