Sunday, April 7, 2002

Burning a Book Before It's Printed. It is easy and comfortable to believe that we live in enlightened times, that scientific and rational thought have illuminated all parts of our culture. But every now and then we are reminded that there are subjects that we are not supposed to talk about, even think about. One of these subjects is child sexuality, as is demonstrated by the reaction to the book Harmful to Minors by Judith Levine. Even one month before its publication, it has been widely denounced as "evil" by people who have never read the book -- because it argues that children and juveniles should be allowed to have satisfying sex lives. A stunning tale of shutting up those who dare to ask the wrong questions. [kuro5hin.org] 11:56:01 PM    Comments []

16159 » April 7 12:16 PM. The only moral and practical answer that there has ever been to this question: partition, territorial compromise, a two-state solution, the establishment of a Palestinian state in most of the occupied territories with security arrangements in the Jordan Valley and identity arrangements in Jerusalem. An analysis that I can live with from The New Repuclic. [MetaFilter] This article contains a very interesting statistic: 1,229 Palestinians and 408 Israelis have died in the conflict. We lost more people than both of them together on a single day in the attacks of 9/11. Israel needs to get rid of Sharon and find someone more moderate & reasonable who's willing to negotiate. They're accomplishing nothing with their attack on Arafat's headquarters except provoking more attacks. They should be negotiating with him instead of attacking him. 4:49:23 PM    Comments []

Morons in the News: All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.. As usual, an anti-gay-equality petition drive finds itself up to its eyeballs in scandal... they just can't seem to collect signatures without lies, trickery, and deceit... [Morons Dot Org] 3:15:51 PM    Comments []