"Hi there, Don't buy into the sexism that is an attempt to keep women in their place - ie valuing a woman by how many people she's slept with."

That is clearly not the point at all. A better parallel would be switched bassinettes in a maternity ward. 20 years after the fact, if a woman has cause to believe perhaps her daughter is not her biological daughter, does she have a right or interest in exposing the truth. You suggestion that this is about valuing a woman by how many people she has slept with is a rhetorical device to evade the actual moral conundrum here. The issue is whether the supposed 'czech father' has a 'right' to know the disposition of his genetic material. Moreover, the O'Mexican father may have made personal decisions and certainly financial ones based on faulty information and may have a right to know. I think in both the case of the bassinet and the two father(s), the people have a right to know. I am a feminist but see a lot of people here pleading 'special dispensation' for the woman based on her gender.

Of course, this is all based upon questionable reference from stranger so I am not sure under what auspices the conclusion of paternity or decision to get married were. However, given the writer's anxiety, I would guess there was some deceit going on...

But all this does go to validate mandatory genetic testing. The ramifications of such a policy are obviously positive what with endless heartaches and court fees, and the crowding of our court systems with garbage lawsuits.

Amazingly unfunny. South Park tops itself again. It surely takes a team of truly ribald nonhistarians to produce this caliber of dishumor. Not even Gilbert and Sullivan, the true classic masters in the bifurcation of parody and humour, reached this level of consistency. G&S's best years's were between 1875 and 1888, and South park has almost reached this nominal anniversary, and has maintained a level of being-watched-ness on a weekly, not yearly, basis.

I had been waiting for marc645638 to show up with his always insightful bile, but felt, at 9am EST, perhaps this time I might be robbed my daily dose of self-important pontification. Yesterday I prayed that the sun would come up today. It is true, that some things are a constant... like marc's loyalty to his significant other and his daily posts herein.

Where did the poster who always suggested MURDER as a recipe go to? Perhaps something transpired... something EVIL.

about nothing. I might as well get upset that you say 'we all' want our mother when we get sick. My mother was an abusive lunatic... you are insensitive to the problems of abuse many children face, and the cycle of pain that can cause....?

I had opened it and left the page open in a browser tab here at work. I guess the volume had been down and somehow got turned up... just as my coworker sauntered it to be inquisitioned: "Do you need a hug?" .... "No one loves you more than me."

Mr K may speak and write with what appears to be a modest and mediate approach, but his points are just as polemical and simplistic as his more bombastic compatriots. Excuse any grammar issues as i refuse to proof-read.

"The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist."

-This is a simplification, by any standard, which wishes to portray the liberal bugbear as hippyish idealists. It is an easy and cheap point to make. A more real portraying on multilateral approach and less aggressive politicking is that the US may actually be able to achieve more for itself with carrot, sometimes, than the stick. For example, the United States has for years been dismissive and unilateral in pose with South America, willing to burn all bridges. The thought is that, perhaps, we might have more access to resources if we had invested positively in this important continent rather than focusing elsewhere on one hand, while dismissing and engaging in aggressive bullying with the continent on the other. The thought is, Access to Venezuela's oil reserves could have helped the US influence oil prices worldwide, for example. And Now, Bolivia contains 70-80% of the world's lithium reserves. Lithium is increasingly an industrially important material. In all cases, the US has botched it's relationship with South America and hampered it's own ability to control or influence economic actors and actions in it's own hemisphere. A disaster.

"Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, to use your phrase, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century."

A pointless statement. Truman was also president at the end of WWII, and, along with Kennan, Acheson, Marchall et all, the architect of the Reconstruction of Europe, and reestablishment of the capitalist system (incidentally, a nice parallel to my points of S. America, where, whatever our intents, we were unsuccessful). Truman's standing popularity has almost nothing to do with Korea.

There are so many things I have disliked about Ann Bauer and her rhetorically framed everything (she wrote that she had found her son's autism to be "beautiful and mysterious"????)...

But I would like to add that the piece is well written even if I find everything wrong with it. That is all.

This is just BEGGING for the MUUURRDDER treatment.

That was, by far, the most insane letters entry I have seen in man an outing. What ARE you on about, friend? Seriously... this sort of inanity needs explanation for me to keep my faith in humanity's capacity to rationalize!

Seriously... this could come straight out of any fan mag, or Tiger Beat.