Huge amounts to chew on here, I'm going for the low-hanging fruit: On rape: Other types of rapes that would no longer be covered by the exemption include rapes in which the woman was drugged or given excessive amounts of alcohol, rapes of women with limited mental capacity, and many date rapes.
Jesus. I understand that the abortion warriors just don't care about anything else in the world, but really, reducing legal protections for rape? Is that your strategy? Way to make friends and influence people. Makes me wonder what the other hand is doing.
Re Palin and the space race, well, who did win? How would we measure that? I didn't see the SOTU speech but my wife did and she came back saying Obama was making all sorts of sense about education and that he invoked the space race as a primary driver of innovation and my immediate reaction was "you say space race, I say cold war." Is this whole mess not just a bunch of problems caused by not calling things by their proper name? I know Americans have uncomplicated warm fuzzy feelings for the space race and not quite the same recollection of the cold war, but historically the latter's a much more accurate description of the force driving university expansion et al (even if it, too, has problems in terms of analytical terms).
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On rape: Other types of rapes that would no longer be covered by the exemption include rapes in which the woman was drugged or given excessive amounts of alcohol, rapes of women with limited mental capacity, and many date rapes.
Jesus. I understand that the abortion warriors just don't care about anything else in the world, but really, reducing legal protections for rape? Is that your strategy? Way to make friends and influence people. Makes me wonder what the other hand is doing.
Re Palin and the space race, well, who did win? How would we measure that? I didn't see the SOTU speech but my wife did and she came back saying Obama was making all sorts of sense about education and that he invoked the space race as a primary driver of innovation and my immediate reaction was "you say space race, I say cold war." Is this whole mess not just a bunch of problems caused by not calling things by their proper name? I know Americans have uncomplicated warm fuzzy feelings for the space race and not quite the same recollection of the cold war, but historically the latter's a much more accurate description of the force driving university expansion et al (even if it, too, has problems in terms of analytical terms).