Kids have been playing with toy guns since we invented guns. There is simply no way to say what - if any - affect playing with toy guns during childhood has on a person in adulthood. But we CAN say that any changes in gun misuse in adults over time is not due to their having played with toy guns as children because toy guns have been a constant for centuries. We used sticks that had an offset 'handle' growing up. I'm pretty sure those have been available for a long, long time.

"...women who work full time either as single or married mothers continue to worry more about their children than men do." This bothers me. 'Worry' does not necessarily translate to better parenting unless we are to believe that the greatest of mothers are all a bunch of hysterics and neurotics. A modicum of benign neglect is something a lot of children are sorely in need of.

Men are dealing with it: they're not marrying. Once women were called 'gold-diggers' - a nasty term for something of a biological imperative: women want to have their children with someone they know will provide well.

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Sleeping is now defined as 'speech' whether you talk in your sleep or not.

Attention confused liberals: Imagine for a moment that DMV workers, in reviewing applications for disabled parking permits, began pulling all the applications made by black people and subjecting them to additional scrutiny. Imagine furthermore that instead of granting permits to black people they sent requests for additional information not at all relevant to their applications and told them they would be able to get their permits more quickly if they agreed not to park in 'white' areas. You'd have no problem calling foul and rightly so. And you wouldn't feel very kindly to someone who said, 'well, if these black people hadn't applied for special parking status, none of this would have happened.' Again, rightly so. But the saddest thing is that you don't seem to realize that if the IRS can be used this way by your guys it can be used that way by our guys. Once more; rightly so. If your side is going to do this then we really would have no choice but to reply in kind. So how about we agree that this is wrong - without these trifling reservations - and clean house?

I wonder if anyone in the Texas government has the authority to make them drop the suit.

I think what she's trying to say is that we tend to sex-segregate children, at least when they are at home or friends' houses and that as they develop sexuality they will masturbate and possibly feel sexual when they wrestle or otherwise do same-sex touching...BUT that none of this is indicative of homosexuality. HOWEVER, goes her argument, if we allow gay sex with younger people, those people will likely end up thinking of themselves as gay after internalizing sexual abuse as their identity. I do not necessarily agree with her point but I do suspect children's sexual identities are more malleable than we think they are.

Plant or not, he had to take it because her organization helped elect him.

My assumption young J F K citing 'Latins' in the '40s would have meant Italians may be wrong. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have meant what we mean today.