...found later. [I know, 'incestuous']

"Horne noted that one of the less-known effects of torture is its effect on those who carry it out. "The damage done to the torturees is awful, but an extraordinary thing is the terrible corruption of torture on the torturers. I've followed it up quite a lot in France. There are mental hospitals that have a lot of ex-soldiers from 50 years ago who are still suffering from what they had to do."

Right-wing Authoritarian...usually

...for that.

"On the other, my sister-in-law has dwarfism; I feel queasy..."

Like...Stop!

My granddaughter has a big 22q11.2 knockout...big.

But is phenotypically (and damned near magically with the surgery) going to be ok.

She is a joy.

-HAD I KNOWN THAT the family would be subjected to all the trials and guilts and self-searching that went with her travails...

Open heart('minor'? VSD), several young years of reflux puking and pneumonias and wasting...and misery for all of them.

-NOT KNOWING that her outcome was going to kind of...ok

-WOULD HAVE gone for early termination in a heart beat.

NONE of that applies to a living -being here- person,

a Stakeholder...now.

All false choice..woulda coulda shoulda stuff.

[And the 'forced-birthers' can go stuff.]

P.S. Sorry for the caps, my HTML is so lose.

"Economic pressures spur illegal immigration,..."

Just as economic pressures foment terrorism.

And Iraq is a factory for terrorism.

And Iraq has marshes...in which terrorists hide,

So the 'Arundo wasp or Arundo fly' are just a natural and

total two-fer too.

[sorry]

I finally had enough of CNN and stripped that whole package out.

Unfortunately that included Comedy Central and so I've missed

Colbert and Stewart for quite a while...

But to have seen Fonda 'doing' Colbert in the way you described almost brought me to tears.

Stephen!...brought [figuratively] to his kness.

Hilarious.

"When you give birth to a girl, people say you have a poyatou, a worthless servant girl. When it's a boy, they say you have a dapangxiaozi, a big fat boy."

Perhaps we might rather call her 'complete' and

disappointed perhaps, see him rather as 'stunted'.

[*Some of the characteristics that go with this deletion carry both physical and survival benefits...for the the troop or tribe

and so persist.

But would we have it otherwise?]

Jimmy was also quite correct in this terminology.

Exactly. Same geo-political configurations.

You're right....stop being nice. Please.

Love the word 'accidental' with 'babies'.

Kind of strictly 'hetero' domain, isn't it?

That's a word that never applies to gay couples' babies, gay adoptions.

Always intended, wanted, planned or even schemed and plotted.

But never....'accidental.

Just sayin'

Catholic, if you missed that.

Even just across the street from the Park...

A breeze even then, perhaps...

New York City August hot is just as miserably hot as

A New York minute is...miserably truncated.

HOT. I forgot.

And all and whatever that entails...

Which exactly is the incomplete, dysfunctional or 'defective' sex?

The details and gathering storm of all this in genetics, neuro-science and behavior studies are just about to do us a sidewinder...hard.

[Maybe not 'us' exactly, but a lot of this Patriarchy thing, for sure.]

I can sometimes spell...chromosome

Why?

Who's worried?

Who?

"No shock is forthcoming. These falsehoods are never acknowledged, let alone retracted, because they are a critical part of the role they play."

It IS what they are and do.

Dere's de Lay and

da Wine and soon

da Mint.

[no offense here, just couldn't help it]

"autism afflicts boys more than girls, a fact that led a guy I know who works with autistic kids to wonder if a certain kind of extreme masculinity -- the emotional detachment, the attention to abstraction -- was, in fact, a mild form of autism."

The autistic as 'extreme' male [old news, actually]

in his isolation and dys`sociability and

the William's syndrome as hyperempath,

tho' not as far as I know particularly 'female'.

But instructive contrasts anyway.

And the fMRIs are really coning on this stuff.

In passing, the guy is best at finding his way by

an innate sense of direction and the gal by landmarks.

Remembering, as you said she does, the placement of things.

The gay male does BOTH fairly well and

the 'gay' girl came up mixed...no trend.

"More than anything else, the American people don't want to be inconvenienced."

And, so sadly, is altogether right.

There's a really big one in the room.

And some want to call him ...RE-colonization,

for reasons way too fraught for here.

Came away with the impression that serial

monogamy (sequential divorce?)..rife in that state.

Is actually kind of...policy.

That might help base this Salon take on Romney...

"Romney went on to explain that there are many other acceptable situations in which to raise a child, including single parenthood that results from divorce."

I will not speculate as to why that phenomenon

might be so prevalent except to note that

the LDS population is very insular, highly inbred.

1)"...since by all appearances, she's never been punished, never been forced to eat anything she doesn't like, never had to sleep anywhere uncomfortable or wear anything unflattering."

2)"At the very least, we were witnessing a coddled child having a severe allergic reaction to the real world."

Problem is: When George gets his 'allergic reaction' Iran might turn to rubble.

[Spent three and half months in the can because I couldn't buy my way out of the DUI...but then; I'd already seen some toughening.

DO feel a bit for the poor little bitch.]

Lieberman as branded-label 'Ziocon'

"Israel is at the center of the growing calls for a new war with Iran can hardly be reasonably doubted....

In early 2007, Benjamin Netanyahu..."

"...deceitful and corrupt --

....warmongering ideologues who have long been hungry"...

Good piece , Sir.