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Polanski
Just because an adult is sexually stimulated by the sight or actions of a child does not excuse his actions. Your author attempts to excuse Polanski by saying the thirteen-year-old victim he raped behaved provocatively. So where does this slippery slope end? With the three-year-old tot who has learned that ''flirting'' melts an adult and yields ...
Posted to Human Nature by Mary Golden on October 14, 2009
Ancient Greek Pederasty does not support Gay Marriage!
Homosexuals would do well to avoid any association with the traditions of ancient Greece, especially since many on the ''traditional values'' side already believe that homosexuals are sexual predators who prey on children and want to seduce them into a same-sex lifestyle, which seems very similar to the pederasty practices of teachers in ancient ...
Posted to Books by szkott on September 23, 2009
Don't regulate abortion, regulate gender-testing.
Perhaps doctors, knowing the potential for sex-selection, could abide by a simple rule: you don't get to know the sex until you've decided to have the child.
Posted to Human Nature by tomrigid on June 16, 2009
Re: Good Grief MaryAnn
Hi MaryAnn, To be fair, and as I tried to make clear at the outset, it's not the poem I disrespect, nor the poet -- neither as poem qua poem nor as poet qua poet. The poem is worthy enough and the poet good at the craft (at least IMO-FWIW). It would be foolish for me to try to engage such a poem at the level that someone like Paul Breslin does. ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 11, 2009
There's discrimination, then there's discrimination
I have always maintained that I will ride with any partner who passed the same tests I did. I don’t know why a higher percentage of whites passed those tests - and neither does the city. Throwing out an unpopular test under political pressure when you don’t understand the results is wrong - and stupid. Maybe the whites had more time on the job and ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by SocialWriter on May 28, 2009
Obama Ruthless -- Like RFK and Mr. Spock?
Every time a truly effective leader comes along -- whether it's President Obama, Lyndon Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Golda Meir or Robert F. Kennedy -- one of the first charges leveled against him or her is ruthlessness. Mr. Spock of STAR TREK had the same problem. Not that he was ever actually ''wrong'' when he elected to sacrifice one or more ...
Posted to The Big Idea by KristineMSmith on May 18, 2009
Re: Obama
shannon0615, you got a president with requisite positive traits to do the best possible to pull out America out of the mutiple guagmires,his predecessor,Bush, a nincompoop, landed USA in.He is doing the best which can be done in all vitol sectors,healthcare,education and national security for your kids and for the future generations of America ...
Posted to The Big Idea by M Saleem Chaudhry on May 18, 2009
Condoning torturers
Licenses are granted by the state, but professional degrees and certifications are granted by professional peers. Although the President and the Dept. of Justice may choose not to hold torturers accountable to the standards established after World War II, the lawyers and doctors who condoned torture must nevertheless be held by their peers to the ...
Posted to XX Factor by Paradoxical on April 21, 2009
let's get honest about culpability here
how many of us congratulated ourselves for the fact our house purchases went up X% in value - completely out of touch with reality vs incomes etc? how many MBAs left with aspirations to work on Wall Street and earn 7-figure sums knowing that their business school professors whom they were learning from earnt probably 1/10th of such figures at ...
Posted to Dialogues by ernestjames on March 6, 2009
COMPENSATION OF HEALTH INSURANCE EXECUTIVES - OUTRAGEOUS!
EXRCSWHO’S LOOKING AT THE COMPENSATION OF THE HEALTHCARE INSURANCE EXECUTIVES? The health insurance companies have played a major role in our current healthcare crisis. They make huge profits and their CEOs make millions, while the rest of us are denied care. ANNUAL COMPENSATION OF HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY EXECUTIVES (2006 and 2007 ...
Posted to Today's Papers by foobar on February 14, 2009

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