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Daily Archives: April 29th, 2010

Our Feminized Navy Allows Women on Subs

  THE NAVY announced today, after the expiration of a period for Congressional intervention, that it will allow women aboard submarines as of 2012. How long will it be before the first child is conceived on a military underwater vessel or before a female commander turns the forced togetherness of submarine life into a maritime version of Mommie Dearest? According to [...]

A Barefoot Girl

  KRISTOR WRITES: This thread reminded me of an experience I had in Gambier, Ohio, where my eldest son went to Kenyon College. Gambier is out in the middle of nowhere, a tiny village at the top of a wooded hill surrounded by verdant and beautiful farms rolling away for many miles on every side. [...]

Idleness vs. Leisure

  JIM WETZEL WRITES: That’s an interesting passage from Stevenson, and I had to read it all before my confusion cleared up. What he called “idleness” differs from what I think of by that term:  It is no good speaking to such folk: they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough; and they [...]