A couple very good attacks on the dubious arguments for discrimination underlines my sentiment that it is good to put such things to the test. "But, in the everyday business of living, secular or otherwise, these variant aspects of personality find inseparable expression in a thousand ways. They cannot be altogether parted in law more than in life." Just one quote from a 1940s ruling respecting "the private realm of family life" that underlines what is at stake. Cheers to those who underline the specious "reasonableness" of policies that turn out to harm the children deemed their beneficiaries.
Ice Princess is an appealing look at passions, fears, and dreams through a female p.o.v. Add in a bit of wish fulfillment. Kim Cattrall also has a change of pace role that works. The mom has a good line about the daughter's hopes to go into ice skating having a ten year expiration rate. Is that really compelling for a teenager? Ten years! In fact, many adults would appreciate something wherein they can be truly passionate for a decade. Let the rest of the life be somewhat mundane ... those ten years will make a lifetime. For some, it's much less than that.
If Democrats give up the fight against Bolton, it may be because they see he doesn't matter that much. The problems lie with those who make decisions; the problems lie with Bush.
-- Fred Kaplan
The king could do no wrong. So they went after his ministers. This is the point today too. So, this p.o.v., which I read repeatedly about many picks (from Chief Justice down), doesn't hold up. Bolton surely was put in place as a symbolic (at least) placeholder for Bush. Hurting him would therefore mean something.
Clearly, anyone who goes up there will have to follow the official line. But, surely, there is some stopping point. If not, why care about anyone who is sent up there? Any boob will do. It simply doesn't matter. Such nihilism doesn't stand up in the real world. Likewise, sometimes image matters. It surely matters in international relations. Having some flamethrower who even our allies in the U.N. find distasteful is harmful. This is so even if the alternative (while Bolton's nomination was being held up, some perfectly fine professional was filling in) had to promote the very same line.
Key officials are simply not totally fungible. As to Dems soft pedaling Bolton, aren't they due to campaign for Sen. Lieberman?