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This came from the AWADmail Issue 122:

From: (name withheld)
Subject: words about family
Refer: http://wordsmith.org/words/paterfamilias.html

I have thought off and on about China, the importance of family there, and the effects of China's limit on family size. With only one child per family, the words brother, sister, aunt, uncle, cousin, etc. will no longer be in common usage. Along with the loss of the words will come a dramatic change in society. Blood may remain thicker than water, but there will be oh so little shared blood.

This is why it's so goddamn important that you FIND OTHER NEWS SOURCES!!!

Why am I finding NO comfort in this?

What??? So people screamed over the wording in the press release but not over the content of the show? Can you say "how much more can we hype the stereotypes?"

Even the military's own newspaper is feeling the burn when it attempts to sort of report the truth.

Wow - what a great piece of writing about journalism v psuedo-journalism (ex: Fox "News")

An interesting piece. To speculate on people's outrage at seeing those pictures in the newspaper: It's easier to not know what happened or to know in an abstract sort of fashion. Seeing those pictures brought the reality home to people in an uncomfortable, maybe painful, way. If people supported the invasion of Iraq, perhaps they're now being called to question that support. The resulting self-examination may not suit them as well as they'd like.

Powell's shortened interview.

ummmm....because there's not so much positive light with which to paint?

More and more evidence that this administration is disentegrating rapidly & is trying to hold on as much as possible. How can the people involved sleep at night, knowing that they've condoned such hideous acts?

I wonder what gay activists have to say about the show discussed in this article?