All of which leads us to another, perhaps more fruitful question that Americans ought to consider: "Why do they love us?" People abroad admire Americans not because they back foreign dictators but because they believe that all men and all women are created equal. That concept cannot stop at the borders of the United States. It is a concept far greater than any one nation, no matter how great that nation is. For America to be true to itself, its people must broaden their belief in equality to include the men and women of the world.

The challenge that the United States faces today boils down to a choice. It can insist on its primacy as a superpower, or it can accept the universality of its values.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/20/AR2007072001806_2.html?nav=rss_opinions/outlook?nav=slate

my two nipples aren't created equal (*) so how could men's and women's nipples be created equal?

these are the kinds of things that keep my up at night.





(*)  one is like a milk bottle cap, the other is like a piece of big red wad of gum you find on the side of the sidewalk.