"The irreducible, glorious dignity of difference".

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Now that's a fire! How to kill thousands of bees without an exterminator. Lots of flammable liquids involved.

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I am now relieved that we are making the financial sacrifice to send our girls to private school.

Middle School Girls Gone Wild

They writhe and strut, shake their bottoms, splay their legs, thrust their chests out and in and out again. Some straddle empty chairs, like lap dancers without laps. They don’t smile much. Their faces are locked from grim exertion, from all that leaping up and lying down without poles to hold onto. “Don’t stop don’t stop,” sings Janet Jackson, all whispery. “Jerk it like you’re making it choke. ...Ohh. I’m so stimulated. Feel so X-rated.” The girls spend a lot of time lying on the floor. They are in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades.

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Now that I think about it, I guess I would be embarrassed to go to the box office and ask for a ticket to "Dreamgirls" when there is so much other manly entertainment being offered. I will probably see it on DVD with the doors closed and the blinds shut tight to hide my shame.

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Saddam Hussein will soon be executed. The New York Times is sad - the three year long trial where the outcome was never in doubt feels "rushed" to them.

A carefully conducted, scrupulously fair trial could have helped undo some of the damage inflicted by his rule.

I am thinking of starting a business by reprinting this article in Arabic and selling it to the Shiites for toilet paper. You know, Hitler killed himself and Germany was able to recover from Nazism pretty quickly. I'm not sure that a decades long trial covering all his crimes would have helped the healing. Talk about ivory tower moral judgments - jeez.