Incendiary topic

From email:

You're getting at one of my pet peeves -- no one is obligated to be attracted to anyone, to have sex, or even to explain why they don't feel like it. Anyone who insinuates otherwise is off my list of people I'm civil to. I got just about enough of this crap when I was young to last a lifetime. The apparently still widespread "he didn't want to have sex with me so he must have 1) internalized homophobia 2) HIV phobia 3) a perfect-body fixation 4) cockteasing tendencies" is a sign of immaturity no matter how old the person expressing it is.

Inoculation against blind belief

In their eagerness to get rid of Bush, some people are taking on faith what they might otherwise recognize as propaganda or unlikely stories with no reliable sources.

Thoughtful Democrats are worried that the onslaught of propagandists like MoveOn.org and Michael Moore will tar Democrats by association with thoughtless demagoguery (much as respectable Republicans dissociate themselves from Anne Coulter.)

Here's some commentary about F911 from 1) a respected NPR commentator, and 2) the BBC's take on Polish views.

Reasons not to be cheerful about Kerry if you care about civil liberties.

I always get put in the contrarian position.... and I despise organized religion and its secular offspring, movement politics. Both are enemies of independent thought.