Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Smith students vote for gender neutral wording
Smith College students earlier this month made a decision some might find mystifying: Although Smith is a women's college, the students voted to change the language of their student constitution so that the pronouns "she" and "her" would be replaced with gender-neutral terms. The vote applies only to student government documents, and not to official college publications, so none of the college's brochures will excise the female pronouns.
The student government vote is an indication of a deeper issue facing Smith College, and other same-sex institutions, which is that a growing number of students identify themselves as transgender, and say they feel uncomfortable with female pronouns.
Smith College students earlier this month made a decision some might find mystifying: Although Smith is a women's college, the students voted to change the language of their student constitution so that the pronouns "she" and "her" would be replaced with gender-neutral terms. The vote applies only to student government documents, and not to official college publications, so none of the college's brochures will excise the female pronouns.
The student government vote is an indication of a deeper issue facing Smith College, and other same-sex institutions, which is that a growing number of students identify themselves as transgender, and say they feel uncomfortable with female pronouns.
Sunday, April 27, 2003
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Friday, April 25, 2003
(Here We Go AGAIN!!) Liberal Suggests 'Human Shields' Protect North Korean Nuke Facilities
OK, OK, let me get this straight. The people who normally go for this human shield clap-trap are usually far left liberals who are also against nuclear power and nuclear weapons. So, following their own twisted logic, they feel the need to go to North Korea and guard their nuclear facilities? The world just gets weirder and weirder.
23 posted on 04/25/2003 12:31 PM PDT by FourPeas
OK, OK, let me get this straight. The people who normally go for this human shield clap-trap are usually far left liberals who are also against nuclear power and nuclear weapons. So, following their own twisted logic, they feel the need to go to North Korea and guard their nuclear facilities? The world just gets weirder and weirder.
23 posted on 04/25/2003 12:31 PM PDT by FourPeas
Thursday, April 24, 2003
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Tuesday, April 22, 2003
What the big deal with what Santorum said?
"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything," the Pennsylvania lawmaker said in a recent interview, fuming over a landmark gay rights case before the high court that pits a Texas sodomy law against equality and privacy rights.
"All of those things are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family," Santorum said. "And that's sort of where we are in today's world, unfortunately. It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn't exist, in my opinion, in the United States Constitution."
"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything," the Pennsylvania lawmaker said in a recent interview, fuming over a landmark gay rights case before the high court that pits a Texas sodomy law against equality and privacy rights.
"All of those things are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family," Santorum said. "And that's sort of where we are in today's world, unfortunately. It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn't exist, in my opinion, in the United States Constitution."
Monday, April 21, 2003
Laci's unborn baby in abortion debate
"If this is murder, well, then any time a late-term fetus is aborted, they could call it murder," Morris County NOW President Mavra Stark told the Daily Record of Parsippany, N.J.
"There's something about this that bothers me a little bit," Stark said. "Was it born, or was it unborn? If it was unborn, then I can't see charging [Peterson] with a double-murder."
"[The boy] was wanted and expected," Stark added, "and [Laci] had a name for him, but if he wasn't born, he wasn't born. It sets a kind of precedent."
"If this is murder, well, then any time a late-term fetus is aborted, they could call it murder," Morris County NOW President Mavra Stark told the Daily Record of Parsippany, N.J.
"There's something about this that bothers me a little bit," Stark said. "Was it born, or was it unborn? If it was unborn, then I can't see charging [Peterson] with a double-murder."
"[The boy] was wanted and expected," Stark added, "and [Laci] had a name for him, but if he wasn't born, he wasn't born. It sets a kind of precedent."
Sunday, April 20, 2003
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Wednesday, April 09, 2003
Tuesday, April 08, 2003
UN gives warning to US and Britain
UN under-secretary general Shashi Tharoor said the Allies had no rights under international law to engage in any kind of reconstruction or creation of government without the express consent of the Security Council.
UN under-secretary general Shashi Tharoor said the Allies had no rights under international law to engage in any kind of reconstruction or creation of government without the express consent of the Security Council.
Monday, April 07, 2003
Broadcasting LIVE from Saddam's House, downtown Baghdad, iiiiiit's FOX NEWS!
The soldiers are all trash talking the Regime now. We taunt, you decide...
36 posted on 04/06/2003 10:43 PM PDT by TheDon ( It is as difficult to provoke the United States as it is to survive its eventual and tardy response)
The soldiers are all trash talking the Regime now. We taunt, you decide...
36 posted on 04/06/2003 10:43 PM PDT by TheDon ( It is as difficult to provoke the United States as it is to survive its eventual and tardy response)
Sunday, April 06, 2003
Jessica took awful beating ily jewels?"
Common, have the balls to say balls if you're gonna use white-out
14 posted on 04/05
Common, have the balls to say balls if you're gonna use white-out
14 posted on 04/05
US Troops Encircling Baghdad [Reuters Disses Info Minister]
Well, Reuters still has to mention the "impending humanitarian crisis" as if living under Hussein is not a permanent humanitarian crisis.
Well, Reuters still has to mention the "impending humanitarian crisis" as if living under Hussein is not a permanent humanitarian crisis.
Saturday, April 05, 2003
Was this house worth her life? (The best and most complete Rachel Corrie article)
Bringing anarchy to this terrible conflict is like offering famine to starving people in Africa--people here have already had enough; they don't want any more. What they need--as they will tell anyone who will listen--is a political solution. What Joe offers is a wildly impractical dream that makes no sense.
Later, Tom tries his hand at answering the question: "I agree with you that it's a huge irony that we're helping, or at least ostensibly helping, build a state--that a lot of anarchists are doing that. They would reply, and to some extent I would reply, that what we are really here for isn't a state. We're here for the people, and as soon as they get a Palestinian state, we'll be against that one, too."
Bringing anarchy to this terrible conflict is like offering famine to starving people in Africa--people here have already had enough; they don't want any more. What they need--as they will tell anyone who will listen--is a political solution. What Joe offers is a wildly impractical dream that makes no sense.
Later, Tom tries his hand at answering the question: "I agree with you that it's a huge irony that we're helping, or at least ostensibly helping, build a state--that a lot of anarchists are doing that. They would reply, and to some extent I would reply, that what we are really here for isn't a state. We're here for the people, and as soon as they get a Palestinian state, we'll be against that one, too."
Friday, April 04, 2003
Thursday, April 03, 2003
Iraqi informer angered by treatment of POW
"I love America. I like America. Why, I don't know," Mohammed said as he recounted the critical role he played in Lynch's rescue.
"I love America. I like America. Why, I don't know," Mohammed said as he recounted the critical role he played in Lynch's rescue.
