Too many boys? Too many girls? It's not like the future of the human race depends on having matching numbers. If people want a particular gender, I say let them have it. This will cut down on people having multiple children they don't want because they want to have at least one of each. It will also cut down on babies who really aren't wanted by their parents. And the overpopulation of one gender is a self-correcting problem - as something becomes more rare, it also becomes more valuable.

"Others think it is unfair for a woman to take a spot from a man who may then lose his ability to earn a living"

Yes, it is still 2006. I havne't slipped into a time warp and moved back to 1956. But apparently somebody else has. This reminds me of the time a company owner told me that I was paid less than the men I worked with because they had families to support. I guess that fact that they all had working wives and I was trying to pay a mortgage on one paycheck didn't seem important to him.

... about foreign working conditions. On the one hand, I'd like for everybody to have the kind of life I have, or at least to have the opportunity to have the life I have. People working long hours for paltry wages in factories don't seem to fit the bill. On the other hand, I recongize that if they didn't have those paltry wages, they would often have nothing. Chinese people need to eat, too. Yes, even young Chinese girls with tiny hands, who should by all rights be in school, need to eat. Stories of what happens to girls in places without sweatshops show that they arne't necessarily better off on their own. I guess in the end I hope that the rising tides lifts them out of what I consider poverty. I try to keep that in mind when outsourcing is the issue as well - people in India need to eat, too. It's tough to find a moral balance between human rights, commercialism, pragmatism, and patriotism.

There is pretty clear evidence that minorities were targeted in an effort to prevent them from voting. There are implications that there may have been vote tampering. This warrants investigation. I want to be able to trust the electoral system again. Everybody seems to focus on the issue of whether the election was stolen or not. That doesn't matter now - the electoral college has spoken. But there is evidence that Republicans cheated. That will always matter to anybody who really believes in Democracy.

The positions, the movements, the "exretions" - everything about it is pretty strange when you think about it. If you don't think so, then imagine your parents having sex. How about your boss? Your sibling? Yeah, I think you get the point. The mind recoils. I think that all in all, some things are better simply enjoyed without thinking too hard about them. Seafood, eggs, and sex are among those things.

What we really need to do is to send pregnant women to these clinics and catch them dispensing bad medical advice, then sue the pants off of them for malpractice. At least that would result in them having to be more careful about what they say, and cut down on the flat out lying. I'm betting that legislatures would proceed to give them shield laws, which would put them in the unenviable position of having to defend people pretending to be medical professionals who are givng out bad medical advice.

All you have to do is pick the more gramatically correct statements and you can instantly tell which ones were said by whom. Lieberman is bush with a basic knowledge of grammer.

If there is a huge concern out there about the risks of "thin acceptance",. I'm missing it. The reality is that societie's tendency to worship thinness has caued major problems, from anorexia/bulemia to women who are afraid to quit smoking because they'll gain weight, from drug abuse among women who use cocaine to fend off hunger pangs to nutritional problems that can lead to diseases like osteoporosis. Yet, for some reason, I don't see a lot of protestors objecting to fashion shows because it may become too acceptable to be thin. We do object for other reasons, such as the fear of objectifying women, but nobody seems to be bothered that our obesssion with thinness might lead to health problems for women.

But every bleeping time I hear about a program to help larger women like themselves better, somebody has to jump in and start talking about the health effects of being overweight. Well, I'm sick of it. I'm a large woman who feels ugly every day of her life. I'm reminded every day how bad it is for me to be overweight. I've tried everything short of drugs or stomach stapling to lose weight, and I'm sick of having people suggest that I'm a glutton (I'm not) or lazy (I'm not) and that I'm endangering my life by being fat. Being fat isn't the worst thing that can happen to a person, and we don't have to put a disclaimer by every vestige of fat acceptance. I'm much rather be fat than be a drug addict, for example. Can we please, just once, tell large women that they can be beautiful without putting in a disclaimer. Thin women get that all the time.

... primarily by people being paid at the lower end of that scale. People who thought that bush actually cared about people like them. Of course, it was the ones at the top who actually bought the ads that convinced these people to vote for him, so it makes sense to reward them.