Katha Pollitt and Andrew Sullivan
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StumbleUponI guess I didn't know that women couldn't get the pill on insurance. Do I get a pass on that one? Seems a particularly stupid economy on the part of the insurance companies, if you ask me. But come to think of it, I can't get condoms on my insurance either, and the medical consequences of my not using one are even worse than that of the average hetero male. But perhaps that just proves your point. Why would straight men care if gay men and straight women get HIV, or if straight women get pregnant? Thanks to a) technology and b) liberal sexual attitudes, someone else can pick up the bill.
Why, by the way, do you think teenage pregnancy is declining in this country? Greater access to contraception? A shift in attitudes among young women? Or young men? Could, gulp, welfare reform have something to do with it? Along with declining crime, it's the most tantalizing social statistic now on the table.
Thanks to your recommendation, I read Hitchens' piece in The Nation online. Can't say I understood a word of it, so I suppose I can't really have an opinion. But very witty, of course. I wish he wouldn't quote Martin Amis though. What a shallow, tedious cynic. He can't write either. The worst of British too-clever-by-halfness and complete cultural decadence. I loved Money for about ten pages, and then realized the entire book was the same ten pages over and over and over again. So I gave up a third of the way through.
Must say I'm a little bemused by your dislike of fellow Nation writers. And I thought TNR was vicious!
More squats now,
bye
Andrew
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