Did anybody really think same-sex couples entering civil unions would get the relationship thing down any better than the rest of us?
A Vermont lesbian couple who entered into the nation's first same-sex civil union are splitting up amid allegations of violent behavior.
Prejudice as a mental illness? My first inclination is to call it just plain silly. But this person says it better:
"I think it's absurd," said Sally Satel, a psychiatrist and the author of "PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine." Satel said the diagnosis would allow hate-crime perpetrators to evade responsibility by claiming they suffered from a mental illness. "You could use it as a defense."
If cursing is a problem in schools today -- anybody prepared to say it's not? -- there are two extremes we can approach in trying to deal with it:
Students in Hartford, Conn., now have to pay for what they say - literally.
Under a new plan, 2,800 students at two high schools in the district could be subject to $103 fines for uttering profanity on school premises.
These poor San Francisco cops should have realized that a chief characteristic of becoming "sensitive" to others -- especially when you're determined to display it like a badge -- is a complete loss of a sense of humor. And who in the country is more sensitive than San Francisco residents? Here's the coverage of a San Francicso TV station, including some of the video in question. If you're easily offended, don't watch.
Well, if this is what Christmas parties are going to be like,
Gone are the nights of photocopying one's bare buttocks, groping interns and hauling home a gift bag full of goodies,
then what's the point?
And just to completely get you in the holiday spirit, know that even Santa ticks some people off.
No stinkin' Merry Christmas here:
A Seattle-area school district recalled its December lunch menus for 23 elementary schools because they were printed with the greeting "Merry Christmas."
The Federal Way School District recycled 11,500 copies of the calendar-style menu and reprinted it with the greeting "Happy Holidays," The News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash., reported.
Those of you who'd like to replace "Merry Christmas" with something less religious might want to give it a second thought:
The dispute makes no objective sense, of course. "Holiday" means "holy day."
An interesting question, which I haven't seen explored, is why we're having this trend of women, especially teachers, abusing minor boys. I've been a minor boy, so I know they don't have a single thing in the way of emotional maturity to offer a woman. The sex can't be that good.
I confess I don't know quite what to make of this "boys in crisis" crisis. Is it really true that they're doing so horribly now? Or are they succeeding and failing in about the same proportions as always but looking bad by comparison to the girls who are more numerous and taken more seriously than they once were? Or is this just a tree mistaken for a forest, as we're inclined to do this days (or weather mistaken for climate, to put it in "global warming" terms)?
Remember the chilling descriptions in "1984" of the cameras that watched people all the time? We're a few years late, but on our way.
