The college dating scene is something akin to survival of the fittest, meant less for the weak of heart than for the rare man who is able to give women what they want (which seems to be, well, everything).

As such, what women interpret to be piggish male behavior is often nothing more than a man's desperate attempt to play the Darwinian game. Strangely enough, most male attempts to brave the storms that are college relationships follow a set pattern. The following is an illustration of the pratfalls that we commonly confront: [Read article]

Odds are, you'll probably start thinking about retiring around 2042. Unfortunately, that happens to be the same time Social Security is set to go bankrupt. In an effort to avoid that, this week the president began aggressively promoting his plan to overhaul Social Security, highlighted by the effort to create private investment accounts.

Simplified greatly, Social Security works as follows: When young people get paid for working, some of their earnings are withdrawn and given to the Social Security program. Then, when those workers reach a certain age, they stop working and giving money, and instead retire and start receiving money. If there are enough people working to support the people that are retired, the system works well. However, while there were 42 workers for every retiree when the system began, today there are only about three workers for every retiree. As a result, the Social Security Administration predicts that the program will start giving out more money than it takes in by 2018 and will run out completely by 2042. [Read article]

Draft registration shouldn't be a reality for either sex

I'm responding to the Wednesday letter by David Behrens, which argued for the involuntary conscription of women into the military on the basis of gender discrimination against males.

Behrens' logic is completely backward. Forced conscription should be abolished, not made to include women. If the government is having a hard time getting enough cannon fodder for its war, then they have either failed to explain the threat or Americans recognize that the war in question is fundamentally unjust. In our current situation the latter applies. [Read article]