The contrast is gargantuan. Both President and Mrs. Bush are everything that the current residents are not. Except "breathing." And both sets are bipeds. Oh, "clothed." That pretty much sums it up. Can't think of anything else they have in common.

Classic. Too bad BHO didn't mention the contrast between the White House as he found it, vs. as Bush found it. You remember - Clinton's bunch doing things like superglueing receivers to the phones and other unbelievably childish and destructive sour grapes actions. No, Bush and his people acted with class, something BHO can't even fake.

The point is not that giant drinks are great and we want everyone to buy them. The point is that it not Government's job to make our food choices for us. Where are they to stop? No more candy bars? Ice cream is sugary and full of fat too - better limit or ban it. Cake has no redeeming value either. Goodbye, cake. Steaks shouldn't be sold at sizes over 10 oz for that matter. Let's limit them! Etc.

Wow. I can abort my baby girl because I want a boy, but I can't supersize my Coke. Just my Diet Coke. Or I can buy a 40 oz beer. (Does this mean The Government feels ok in controlling what I put in my body, just not what I take out of it? Hmmm...) Note: Big Gulps are still legal. Convenience stores are not affected by this law, just restaurants, food carts, and grocery stores, where you will need to buy two smaller drinks if you still want to get your jumbo drink sugar high. Note #2: this is like when parts of Texas banned 2-for-1 happy hours (back in the '80's). So the bars started selling 1 cent drinks when you bought one drink. I don't think that stupidity lasted.

Bubble - Seriously? The counselor tells her how to do it (and in the Austin tape tells her how to commit fraud in order to do it), and you're going to quibble that this is not promoting gendercide per se, therefore there is no story? Streeeeetch......

Although I teach Spanish (and thus am able to clarify the misconception that Che Guevara was really, like, totally cool and helped a lot of people), I sometimes let conversations roll over to other mass killings too. My students are stunned that Stalin killed 20 million of his own people (and I'd heard 80 million attributed to Mao), and then nod their heads when I call foul that we hold Hitler up to be the greatest evil of the last century. "How sad," I say, "that I am saying that 8 million murdered people is small when compared to Stalin and Mao!" "Why don't they tell us this?!" (And some of my students do not believe me - at first - that Che was a cold-blooded murderer, who persecuted homosexuals, blacks, longhairs, jazz-lovers, etc.)

I'm not sure that Dread didn't have that in mind. I interpreted his post as saying since there is inflation now (high school diploma then = college diploma now) - and since there is probably no turning back - we should examine teaching career paths in the pre-college years. This, to me, could include technical training. Most European nations split the kids into tech vs. academic, with the latter getting free college. BUT - the student must pass the test that separates the two groups, usually at around age 14. (Some nations' tests are at age 11, and I recall Japan's test having been at age 5 many years ago, That may have changed now.) But few want to touch this topic. It flies in the face of "I get to go to college 'cause I want to."

So, do you mean "intersex" as in hermaphrodite, you and your son? Born with both sets of genitalia? And you chose which genitalia he/she would have permanently, before letting him/her make that choice (based, I suppose, on the chromosomes of your child)? Or do you mean some PC term that for you means "I feel like I'm A. but my body looks like B, so I'm going to dress and act like I'm A and still try to have sex with other B's"? I can't imagine you mean this definition for your son.

ZB - Please don't equate the struggles of Blacks with the struggles of people who don't like their genitalia. It's really, *really* insulting to Blacks.

ZoeB2 - You honestly want your 18-yr-old daughter changing clothes in the locker room with this guy, also changing clothes - with all his male parts still intact? *Really*? Is that the kind of liberty you think our soldiers fight and die for - so that a man can change clothes in front of your daughter because he feels more comfortable that way??