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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 11:31:13 EST
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- From: todd pukanecz <CCCS@VTVM1.BITNET>
- Subject: Holiday Cheer
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- Hi kids,
- Here's hoping heaps of holiday happiness, gigantic, jingling jars of
- joy, and alarmingly altruistic allocations of alliteration.
- Lemme toss a few pennies around before I go NOMAIL for the holidays.
-
- Homosexuality is a natural phenomenon that has been documented in most
- cultures and in many mammalian species. Homosexuals should have exactly
- the same rights as the rest. The debate, it would seem, should hinge on
- whether opportunities for jobs, housing, serving in the military, etc.
- are *rights* or simply opportunities that are afforded by having rights,
- which can then be limited based on who is offering the opportunity.
- Freedom of speech *is* a right. We all have it and it should be
- exercised freely and often. Howard Stern is as obnoxious about his
- right as Rush Limbaugh, however Stern's sophomoric humor is funnier than
- Limbaugh's sophomoric humor.
- Libertarianism is a fine and consistent philosophy around which to
- base a system of government. However, it is designed for a race of
- humans that doesn't exist, since we are not used to taking responsibility
- for our actions at every turn. Communism is similar in that it is a fine
- ideal, but we aren't comfortable with taking care of all our neighbors
- all the time.
- Left and right are bogus political descriptions. They are an attempt
- to model a multidimensional entity on a one dimensional scale. "Utne
- Reader" had a cool chart last year that had the various political
- stances as a circular cloud of points, with the more radical elements
- being farther from the center.
- Clinton's cabinet *does* look like America: a bunch of old people
- sucking money from the young.
- And remember folks, mistletoe spreads mono. Happy holidays!
- todddddddddddd
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