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And Radley points out that, while it is true that, as I noted, the extreme-libertarian Bush Administration did not file an amicus brief in Kelo, it almost did - for the Evil Team.

Given that Gonzales believes in fighting terrorism with torture, this could be one painful war on smut.

Even the horrific car bomb that killed over 100 in Hilla tells us that the construction of a functioning Iraqi security force is what the insurgents fear the most.

Once you've said it, you haven't said much. The US assault on Afghanistan proves that an al Qaeda-friendly government in the mountains of Central Asia is what the Americans fear most. And? The massacre at the World Trade Center in September 2001 proves that East Coast office workers are what the terrorists fear most. Really? The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand proves that a popular Hapsburg is what the Serbian nationalists fear most. I suppose that's one way of looking at it.

Stripped of morale-building rhetoric, all the formulation really claims is that Combatants operate against targets on which they place high value. But then, the morale-building rhetoric is the point: the word "fear" makes the opponent sound desperate and our side on the cusp of victory; it also tries to buck up the actual targets. Puff your chests out, boys, they're bombing you because they're afraid of you! There's probably a sense that it's true, but it's also true that "an al-Qaeda-friendly government in the mountains of Central Asia" was what we "feared most" in late 2001. Saying that said nothing about whether we were "desperate," or about our prospects for success. Serbian nationalists probably did fear the emotional connection between the mass of Serbs and the Royal Family of Austria-Hungary. Attacking what they feared most worked out pretty well for them.

Most viewers don't differentiate between traditional TV and cable so they don't know when they might be exposed to objectionable programming, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, head of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, told the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington.

Mrs. Offering e-mails

JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!! THAT'S WHY MOST PEOPLE SUBSCRIBE TO CABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Exclamation points in original.

I should say right out that before the invasion I said what would matter was not how the war looked the next month, but how it looked a year from then, and two years, and five and ten. I have no hesitation in saying that after one year it looked a lot more like my predictions than like those of any hawks. It will clearly look rosier come the second anniversary in a couple of weeks.

And after that? It depends.

Although it is clear that Warner and her suffering co-affluents do very much want their kids to "get ahead", I think one part of their problem is they don't know why they want this. They see that they are paying a price for it; thus they fear they are irrational. One thing that might help is simply to know that it is natural for them to want to advance their kids. It's an evolved aspect of human nature.

It may also help them to know that in general in primates, females are much more social than males. Thus there's a reason why their husbands are not similarly busting their butts molding the kids: hubby just ain't that into it. Knowing this might help these women live more peaceably with their family.

I don't have the aversion to all explanations sociobiological that others have, but as to the second paragraph, there's an alternate explanation that fits the facts, insofar as the facts fit Warner's potted statistics. Warner mentions at one point that the average mother works 41 hours a week, the average father 51. That's ten extra hours in the office, and ten fewer hours available for parenting. Proportionally, the relevant comparison is not "an extra 20% at work" but Remaining waking hours minus (minus net commuting time difference) minus ten. It's to Warner's credit that her article, while free with its condemnations of society, was lighter on the husband-bashing than many works of her genre - apparently she thought through the implications of the numbers.

UPDATE: Meant to mention. Andrew Olmsted didn't like Friday's BSG nearly as much as I did. I think he's wrong at just about every turn, but not provably so. I think the show's creators are largely in control of the seeming loose ends; he doubts they are. Time will tell, but it does set one to musing how literary and paraliterary works acquire authority (let's gloss it for now as confidence that the creator knows what he or she is doing). I will say I don't think there's any "telepathy" going on necessarily, though I could be wrong. I do suspect that the Cylons, as artificial intelligences, probably have access to the material in an awful lot of computer databases. Were there background check records somewhere covering Starbuck's horrid upbringing? Seems plausible.

Of course, the other possibility is that God knows all and the Cylons know God.

Now, I'm doubt that this specifically is true

Meanwhile, if you look at Jim Henley, very little of his considerable distaste for the administration stems from any specifically libertarian (as opposed to social conservative) views.

but who can say. I'm pro-choice but a pro-life symp; I'm pro-gay marriage and individual rights for gays, but a small-government social conservative who felt the same way would believe that homosexuality was a regrettable, even sinful practice that the State nevertheless had no standing to prohibit. That's how I feel about homophobia, not homosexuality. But I may be missing some subtle distinction Matt intends.