The Smell of Kerosene in the Twilight ..."I passionately feel that I never want my children to have to understand the horrors of war. I'm not a pacifist in the sense of believing that we should never fight back against an aggressor. I've been through that stage, admittedly, as a naïve teenager, and realize that it's pointless, to say nothing of being an insult to the memory of those who have fought in what they have considered to be just causes."...
Thoughts From Abroad "I've been thinking about gender a lot recently. I grew up a fairly 'hard line' feminist. Since I was a teenager I've always scoffed at the notion that there were any inherent differences between the sexes. I conceded that men were physically stronger than women, but as I didn't want to be a firefighter, it didn't seem to matter." ...
Vlad The Impaler ..."We certainly don't believe that Angus has it, even though the fear of it drove me to surf the Net to find lists of symptoms and neurotically dismiss them. My friend with the ADD daughter, and another friend, have had their hands full recently assuring me over and over again that he is perfectly normal! But I feel that anyone who really does have an ADHD child would be furious that the terminology can be bandied around like that by people who know very little about the condition or about the 'normal' behavior ranges of children."...
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