If You Just Try To Make Rational

Americans Have Called On Moderates In Muslim Countries To Speak Out Against Extremists, To Stand Up For The Tolerance They Say They Believe In. We Should All Have The Guts Do The Same At Home.

There Isn't A Political Price To Be Paid Yet For Doing Nothing. People Need To Get Upset With President Bush. People Need To Get Upset With Their Congressmen.

When Anesthesia Was Developed, It Was For Many Decades Routinely Withheld From Women Giving Birth, Since Women Were "supposed" To Suffer. One Of The Few Societies To Take A Contrary View Was The Huichol Tribe In Mexico. The Huichol Believed That The Pain Of Childbirth Should Be Shared, So The Mother Would Hold On To A String Tied To Her Husband's Testicles. With Each Painful Contraction, She Would Give The String A Yank So That The Man Could Share The Burden. Surely If Such A Mechanism Were More Widespread, Injuries In Childbirth Would Garner More Attention.

Compassion Isn't A Sign Of Weakness, But A Mark Of Civilization.

If The U.s. Wants To Help People In Tsunami-hit Countries Like Sri Lanka And Indonesia - Not To Mention Other Poor Countries In Africa - There's One Step That Would Cost Us Nothing And Would Save Hundreds Of Thousands Of Lives. It Would Be To Allow Ddt In Malaria-ravaged Countries.