Once more a "we need to protect the flag" amendment is up before congress. It could not be more politically timed. It is soon to be July, wherein the Fourth Day thereof is our national Holy of Holies, when all the good citizens can get hammered on bad beer and…
Once regarded as a Generation-X anomaly, social scientists and news publications around the world now observe a frightening trend in young adults: a marked failure to leave home, find a career, attain what most regard as “adulthood”. The reported lack of maturity manifests itself not just in observation, but in real-world statistics: the percentage of 26-year-olds that live with their parents has nearly doubled since 1970, from 11% to 20% according to a University of Michigan study. The average college experience now takes five years, not four. This new agegroup of immature adults has a variety of names around the world- boomerang kids(Canada), nest-squatter(Germany), adultescents (a few US social scientists), and so on. Japan’s parliament even staged a debate on the disturbing reliance of today’s 20-somethings on their parents. But in some ways, this trend follows historical example.
Before the Renaissance, children did not exist. Of course, the age group did not fail to appear, but pre-Renaissance peoples thought of children as miniature adults more than their own stage in human development. Accordingly, children of the pre-Renaissance had to undertake much higher responsibilities, and enjoyed less education and emotional feedback than their modern equivalents.
Then, some time around the Renaissance, childhood came into existence. Society began to see its younger members as less than fully molded, emotionally delicate and needy. At the same time they receive more coddling, longer educational lives, and more parental patience with less physical punishment. In time it became psychologically clear that children did not posses …
Over the course of my life, I've met many heterosexuals. To my knowledge, not one of them has ever spontaneously become homosexual. Likewise, I've met many homosexuals and, to my knowledge, not one of them as ever spontaneously become heterosexual. Likewise, I've never (to my knowledge) met a pedophile, but…
Binary: compounded or consisting of or marked by two things or parts.
You know that feeling of resentment that wells up inside when someone enters your space and dumps chores on you? It breeds a lot of resentment. That’s how neo-conservatives feel about progressives. Neo-cons hiss and spit when they speak of progressives because progressives try to dump lots of extra work on neo-cons.
What kind of work, you ask? The work of actually having to get to know people before judging them. It’s a lot of work. No wonder conservatives express such animosity toward progressives!
For the next minute, step inside the collective mind of the neocon . . .
…We had to retaliate against Iraqis when people from Saudi Arabia attacked us. Sometimes you need to show those people who’s in charge.
I check in with conservative talk radio quite often. In the privacy of my SUV, my radio reminds me that all unmarried mothers are failures. All welfare recipients are trash, of course. All drug addicts should be thrown in prison for a lonngg time. Well, except for Rush. All immigrants should be kept out of the U.S.A. Who the hell do they think they are, trying to get what we have.
Homosexuals? They are clearly immoral. Criminals, actually. . . guilty of something. Do I actually know any gay
A woman was recently elected as the first Episcopal presiding bishop and it's causing quite a ruckus. As reported by MSNBC, The situation has been complicated by Sunday’s election of Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori as the first Episcopal presiding bishop — the first woman ever to lead an Anglican…