Slog - Comments on The Morning News http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422 Spiking: US trade deficit. Surging: Black voter registration in North Carolina. Briefing: Bush to call for shorter tours in Iraq. Firing: US strikes Sadr City. Evil Empire Indeed: Microsoft negotiating with Murdoch for Yahoo bid. "Don't Be Evil": Yahoo partners with Google to fend off Microsoft. Bad Weather: In the Bad Weather Belt. Long Winter: In Eastern Washington. Burning Issue: Torch hounded through San Francisco. On the Olympics: Dalai Lama supports games but says nobody has the right to tell protesters to “shut up.” On the Ground: More American Airlines planes. On the Trail: : Liz Edwards plugs Clinton's health... Copyright 2008 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:18:34 -0800 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:08:03 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe And then there's this

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c994933 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c994933 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:37:55 -0800 Comment by Dominic Holden @1) Jailing people for homosexuality--because nothing gay ever happens in prisons...

]]> Dominic Holden http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c994937 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c994937 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:42:03 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe With the hi-five, jail becomes your Disneyland.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c994938 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c994938 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:46:24 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty Oh, the debauchery!

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c994939 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c994939 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:46:32 -0800 Comment by Greg Don't pay too much attention to your sons, because then they'll turn out gay. But don't pay too little attention to your sons, because then they'll turn out gay. How's a mother supposed to catch a break?

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c994943 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c994943 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:53:58 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ6GddZbQHE

How I feel about yoooooooou!

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c994947 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c994947 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:58:35 -0800 Comment by NaFun Yeah, send the gay men with AIDS to prison, that's safe.

Prisons being a major vector for the spread of HIV, what with the prison rape and all.

]]> NaFun http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c994981 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c994981 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:33:15 -0800 Comment by COMTE So, is this saying that, if the child turned out to be gay AND hypermasculine (like one of those testosterone-fueled Tom of Norway images), then that would be okay in their eyes?

This is all very confusing - good thing none of it was ever proven to be true, I guess.

Poor Dr. Bieber - must have come as an awful blow to find out his theories were bunk.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c994984 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c994984 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:34:55 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO if my mom ever read that, I think her head would explode. I'd be willing to bet she is already blames herself for "the wayI turned out."

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995004 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995004 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:46:03 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO Also, thank dog I don't live in Egypt. I'd be charged with debauchery in a heartbeat.

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995016 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995016 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:48:58 -0800 Comment by Anon Why's it always gotta be like that? Ha!

]]> Anon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995077 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995077 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:26:22 -0800 Comment by Slim WTF is a Tar Heel?

]]> Slim http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995080 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995080 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:27:30 -0800 Comment by Winston Smith Wasn't it GW who lengthened the military tours from 12 to 15 months in the first place? Most news stories I've seen don't mention that. They go along with the charade that GW is shortening tours, when in fact the tours are the same length as before. It's similar to suspending troop reductions, leaving the troop levels exactly where they were two years ago, before the "surge". It's the illusion of change.

]]> Winston Smith http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995082 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995082 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:29:07 -0800 Comment by Spoogie A Haiku:

Dear Mama, I'm gay.
But that is OK because
it is all your fault.

]]> Spoogie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995099 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995099 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:39:55 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger Overprotective mothers? What a crock of fucking shit!! My mother stood by and watched while my step father beat the shit out me from the time I was 6 years old and I turned out to be gay. Overprotective my ass!!!

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995100 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995100 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:40:43 -0800 Comment by ellarosa hey cato, he covered all the bases: "In other cases he may be underprotected and rejected." so there. oh, and did your mom pluck her eyebrows? that might have had something to do with making you gay too.

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995141 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995141 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:17:00 -0800 Comment by Becky I wonder if they had a special chapter on "raising a lesbian" or if lesbians just "didn't exist" back then?

]]> Becky http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995149 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995149 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:22:55 -0800 Comment by Dominic Holden @17) An excerpt from the chapter on lesbianism was up yesterday. According Mr. and Mrs. Wyden's very scientific book, lesbians are the product of puritanical moms and bullying dads. Nothing else. But there are fewer lesbians because they stay in the closet or something.

]]> Dominic Holden http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995181 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995181 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:42:07 -0800 Comment by KeeKee I like Spoogie!

]]> KeeKee http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995379 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995379 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:37:38 -0800 Comment by Becky Haha, thanks for the link.
"Is lesbianism really much less common than male homosexuality? The best evidence suggests that it is."
I'm sure this all footnoted with the very scientific studies in the bibliography, and so forth.

]]> Becky http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995559 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995559 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:56:50 -0800 Comment by Becky Thanks for the link. Yes, some very interesting scientific theories there.

]]> Becky http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995563 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995563 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:58:03 -0800 Comment by Becky oops. I thought my first post was accidentally posting to yesterday's post, then I got rid of it, or so I thought - this is confusing :)

]]> Becky http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995571 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/the_morning_news_422#c995571 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:08:03 -0800