Happened in Chicago at several schools last year.

Yes, you understand the meaning of the word. The problem is a lack of choice these new menu options provide combined with the choices unintentionally provided. At the high school where I teach, we see students throwing away more food as they throw away the fruit and vegetables they must take (if they don't, they must pay more money, but they can throw the stuff away for free). This choice and the predictable food waste are the government's fault--moron (your choice of words).

Caveat... What bill was the GOP able to block during Obama' first two years in office? What Democrat budget has the GOP blocked since Obama took office? What part of Obama's stimulus package did the GOP obstruct?

Got to love the unions. They would rather lose everything than make reasonable concessions that would address problems they had a hand creating. Kudos to Moonbeam for finally admitting the truth. When will other Dems reach this point?

Bill Mahr's political views do not make him a misogynist. His treatment of women does.

No. Notice that Kate Hicks uses Catholics to rebut Catholics. She is not urging silence but rather a change of focus. The Catholic Church has a right and obligation to encourage its members to follow Catholic beliefs. Hicks wants the Church to do so consistently and faithfully. That is not pathetic.

Funny, you are scolded for critiquing the Puritans after reading a book written purposefully as a critique of those people. What wonderful teaching.

You are right, you can separate right/wrong, good/bad from understanding different cultures. However, once you make such a judgement about another culture (cannabilsm is bad), you have left the tenets of anti-ethnocentrism. You are right, you can always take things too far, but when you can easily find glaring exceptions to a position that is a given, that position should be rejected.

DHE, regarding your comments, anti-ethnocentrism establishes the absolutes, do not judge others and the study of other groups must be value neutral being two big absolutes driving the concept. What you propose, the inclusion of values (which I believe is completely unavoidable, the point of Mike's article), is antithetical to anti-ethnocentrism. Also, if you have X and Not-X, you have two mutually exclusive groups by definition.

Taken to its fullest logic, yes. Somehow, at sometime, a significant segment of sociologists forgot that their discipline is a problem-solving discipline and turned it into a problem-ignoring exercise.

Better Adelson's ring than Tony Rezko.