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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Jay Bee
Published Letters: 55 Editor's Choice: 5
Unless I missed the memo from the Vatican, isn't the Catholic church a non-democratic organization? I really don't understand these cafeteria Catholics who continue to pick and choose, swooning over liturgy while ranting against the hierarchy. If you want a religion where the common person has a say, pick a different one. It's not that hard!
This isn't even meant to be anti-Catholic. It's just stating that a stone does not become an egg simply because a lot of people wish it so.
Anyone seeking same-sex marriage in Maine cannot currently do so. Typically a bill does not take affect until 90 days after the adjournment of the Legislature. However, if sufficient signatures are collected as a petition by this deadline, the law will not go into effect and a vote by the electorate takes place in November. If Maine votes against the law, then gay marriage will have never happened.
As a resident of Maine, I hope that this does not happen, but after California, it's difficult to say what will happen.
If the percentage of people open to a public option held nationally providing said option were made available, we're talking tens of millions of people. I don't have the data available, but what is the percentage of Americans who are either uninsured or underinsured? Perhaps this meshes well with that group.
I read Pollan's article before coming over to Salon this evening. I found it most illuminating.
Those of us with any opportunity to understand food, how it is made, and how to make it ourselves should revel in this chance. Food sustains us, makes us alive and well when done properly, and all this throwaway segment can do is cast aspersions at Pollan's gender? Perhaps written by one with all the benefits of an upper-class upbringing, Ms. Harding can get Whole Meals at Whole Foods, but not everyone can be so lucky.
My life has been made immeasurably better by understanding food. Learning to cook - really cook - for myself and my loved ones has made me healthier, happier, and more energetic. Far better than any nonsense fad diet consisting of pre-packaged garbage in the freezer aisle at Megalomart.
Now, I do have a penis, so I know my thoughts are suspect, but I stand by them.
Yes, because Obama was supposed to part the Red Sea, change water to wine, and save our nation from its own idiocy. Look to a craven Congress and a lot of frothy old white people to our failures here. The Presidency, despite its increased stature over the years, is not a position imbued with supreme power. Obama is not the failure here - I lay that at the feet of Congress.
I know this is shocking. I have one, and despite my best efforts at trying to keep her focused on Beanie Babies and anything possibly infantalizing, she's moved on to other ideas.
Do we really give a flying crap about this? This is important? Or do we make it so with all of this second-wave feminist hand-wringing prude crap?
The sooner we accept that children are horny little devils just about the minute they hit puberty (which, last I knew, was well before Cyrus' rather robust 16), the sooner we can have a REAL discussion about this and other silliness.
We magically expect girls to be angels until 18, and even then, they can only express themselves certain ways. What bollocks. Girls are busy trying to make boys (and girls) horny, and boys are busy jerking off every second nobody is looking.
This is life. Accept it.
Never bite off more than you can chew.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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