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[mindstalk]

Just from today!Dan Savage, gay children, denominations, responsibility of consequences
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=5135029
http://rfmcdpei.livejournal.com/2523435.html

French pension strikes continue. Seems perhaps good that I left when I did.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11563423
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFLDE69H0RL20101018?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true

airline pilot refuses naked screening
http://www.expressjetpilots.com/the-pipe/showthread.php?39523-Well-today-was-the-day

IU health engagement program: fat smokers pay more!
http://www.indiana.edu/~uhrs/benefits/hep/index.html
plus petition and discussion
http://community.livejournal.com/bloomington/2043858.html

Israel's anti-Arab loyalty oath
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/1018/1224281343072.html

Republican candidate Joe Miller has reporter assaulted and handcuffed,
declares his past off limits
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/18/alaska.miller.reporter/index.html
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/10/11/101903/alaskas-miller-declares-questions.html

marijuana legalization in California vs. Mexico
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/world/americas/18mexico.html?_r=1&src=tp

Krugman on China's rare earth monopoly
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/opinion/18krugman.html

new culture of poverty ideas
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/us/18poverty.html

Franz de Waal on morals without God
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/morals-without-god/

What might the future condemn us for? With newly specific set of guidance criteria
http://rfmcdpei.livejournal.com/2522013.html

Comments

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Noel Mauer I believe, who has a sometimes interesting blog of his own, and intermittent comments at Randy and James; I've linked to him on Puerto Rico in the past. But he seems to have flown off a handle here.

It's a topic which seems cool to think about but which I think is almost impossible to discuss coolly in a diverse group. It's "what is almost everybody today morally wrong about" after all.