One Of The Principles Of Journalism Is

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.

There Are Ten Times As Many Sex Slaves Transported Around The Globe Today As Agrarian Slaves Were Transported In The 1790s.

It Is Better To Inconsistently Save Some Lives Than To Consistently Save None.

American Airstrikes...create Risks, Especially If Our Intelligence There Is Rusty. The Crucial Step, And The One We Should Apply Diplomatic Pressure To Try To Achieve, Is For Maliki To Step Back And Share Power With Sunnis While Accepting Decentralization Of Government. If Maliki Does All That, It May Still Be Possible To Save Iraq. Without That, Airstrikes Would Be A Further Waste In A Land In Which We've Already Squandered Far, Far Too Much.

In Much Of The World, The Most Dangerous Thing A Woman Can Do Is Become Pregnant.