Alternative News and Information. en-us http://www.alternet.org/rss/button.gif http://www.alternet.org/ AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/ Copyright 2012 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved. http://www.alternet.org/story/152506/from_palin_to_perry%3A_the_gop_shifts_from_sexual_spark_to_empty_machismo/ If Palin was on the McCain ticket for her sizzle, Perry might be on the next ticket for his faux cowboy image, just four years after the last Texan in a cowboy hat. Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:00:01 PDT JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation -8b5bb14e63ed8c25a11be6850a75a623 http://www.alternet.org/story/151329/%26quot%3Bthe_penis_was_their_god%26quot%3B%3A_what_aliens_would_think_of_our_juvenile_obsessions/ When it comes to the Internet fantasyland, people are way ahead of politicians and the press in sorting out the relationship between individual secrets and social honesty. Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:00:01 PDT JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation -f18caf116a1b8c339e57e98733a9f42a http://www.alternet.org/story/148440/masturbation_finally_out_of_the_closet%2C_if_not_exactly_into_the_streets/ Maybe we can finally be done with shame, and with the coy and irksome way the press talks about this very homely pleasure. Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:00:01 PDT JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation -8edb35158d68816dcf107b2741879ac7 http://www.alternet.org/story/142602/why_is_big_pharma_trying_to_tell_you_how_to_have_sex/ Female sexual dysfunction was wholly created by drug companies hoping to make even bigger money off women than they have off men. Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:00:01 PDT JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation -02c73ab7cd5116ef156c6ca785e927f3 http://www.alternet.org/story/141077/why_the_left_looks_like_a_big_hypocrite_in_the_sanford_affair/ Sanford is no more of a moralist than those in the party of Barack and Bill, the party of "don't ask, don't tell" and the Defense of Marriage Act. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:01 PDT JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation -eb4777b78beb6afea8722a6a3f0b425a http://www.alternet.org/story/139272/super_prude_prosecutors_charge_teenagers_with_pornography_and_worse_for_sexy_text_messages/ Sending a nude or semi-nude picture to a friend's cell phone is apparently a crime -- if you're a teen. Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:01 PDT JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation -d297e506f660a9c165e481e90284260b http://www.alternet.org/story/103503/sex_economy_goes_limp/ Lesson from the crash: for the rich, happiness used to be an expensive erection away. Now, everybody's fucked. Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:00:01 PDT JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation -fbb87f9431c66b58e9daec898abe36ec http://www.alternet.org/story/98657/sex_is_mccain%27s_political_weapon/ McCain needed Sarah Palin, icon of sex -- not gender -- to recharge his potency and the cultural oomph of the right. Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:00:01 PDT JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation -b6bd9a3f86f59c7c58916b4aa946a239 http://www.alternet.org/story/78188/was_the_clinton_era_good_for_the_working_class_ohio_primary_will_tell/ The blue collar vote is on the line in the Buckeye State -- and so is the myth of Clinton-era good times. Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:01 PST JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation -7e9414ac88caaa960094f524b2268f31 http://www.alternet.org/story/70906/what_giuliani%27s_sleazy_sex_life_tells_us_about_him/ There's something untrustworthy about a man who can't conduct a decent affair -- Rudy Giuliani never could. Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:01 PST JoAnn Wypijewski, TheNation.com -bc10749d865bd660057f724b31276e8a http://www.alternet.org/story/51658/trained_to_harm%3A_how_the_military_abuses_its_own/ In the Army, being injured makes one deserving of cruelty. Thu, 10 May 2007 00:00:01 PDT JoAnn Wypijewski, The Washington Spectator -d3630f23e503069de93fd311c61fa7a2 http://www.alternet.org/story/35192/killed_by_the_u.s._army/ Pvt. Scarano once called himself a "living symbol" of the failure of the Army's rehabilitation system. Now he's a dead symbol. Tue, 09 May 2006 13:00:01 PDT JoAnn Wypijewski, AlterNet -14c0c5f6f142833b2669dd20e70f03f5 http://www.alternet.org/story/19332/rainbow%27s_gravity/ Jesse Jackson's campaigns for the presidency in '84 and '88 changed the Democratic party in ways we can still see today. Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:00:01 PDT JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation -f182c4c2e7b4bd91debd2d0d636becac http://www.alternet.org/story/11332/audacity_on_trial/ The only thing stronger than racism in South Carolina is the hatred of unions. And so the Charleston Five -- black Longshoremen arrested on trumped up charges -- need all the help they can get. Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:00:00 PDT JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation -f0f072c0dbbe1e8b36afffba199afa23