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Groping With the Invisible Hand

George A. Tobin

While many people have expressed reservations about the direction of the Clinton economic program, the good economic news is that retail condom sales broke the $300 million dollar mark...

Moderately Religious, Desperately Sexual

George A. Tobin

The most surprising thing about The Janus Report on Human Sexuality (John Wiley & Sons) is that its findings don’t really surprise. I had hoped to come across some...

Monkeys, MacKinnon & Marriage

George A. Tobin

Twenty years ago, the U.S. Army directed me to help monkeys copulate. In order to carry out my mission to increase and multiply the lab animal population of the...

The Brown-Headed Cowbird

George A. Tobin

There has always been a segment of the American population that wants to dump the “Star Spangled Banner” in favor of “America the Beautiful.” Proponents of the change argue...

The Camera and the Sandwich

George A. Tobin

The late Sam Kinison, an incomparably loud and invariably offensive comedian, once delivered a comedy routine about famine. He remarked that whenever he sees heart-rending scenes of famine victims...