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joe perez
October 2008 
EQUAL Views for October 20, 2008
Posted on Oct 20th, 2008
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The significance of Shuka's greeting, study says men like Facebook more, Proposition 8 ahead in the polls, and the sad case of the dope-addicted elephant.
| Inquiry: What's Going On? | |
 Priya Devi R tells the Vedantic story of how Shuka's greeting at the palace of Janaka taught him everything he needed to know about truth: the non-identification with the body. ... John McCain's foul mood. A friend tells the New Yorker: "John's personal comfort level is low with everyone right now. He's angry. But it [Palin's pick] was his choice." ... Barack Obama's equanimity. ... David Brooks: No "rage, resentment, fear, anxiety, bitterness, tears, ecstasy, self-pity or impulsiveness." | In China: Animal smugglers got an elephant addicted to heroin, rendering it unable to return to the wild. After three years of rehab, the elephant makes "continuous trumpeting noises", his eyes "streamed with tears". ... Gay sex produces offspring. In beetles. ... First-ever mating photos: gorillas never before seen in face-to-face copulation. Have they been getting ideas by watching us? |
| Another sex difference: men are 13% more likely to value their online communities as much as their off-line ones. ... Chevy Chase: Saturday Night Live's brilliance? They let Sarah Palin go live without a script. Palin's fatal flaw? She can't improvise. ... Terry Mattingly: Affirmative action for evangelical journalists to fight newsroom bias? That will help "only if those evangelicals are real journalists." | Prop. 8: Californians are narrowly pro-bigotry. ... Many gays (including Andrew Sullivan) think Obama should cut an anti-8 ad. ... Me: I'd be happily surprised if he did, but that's just too much to ask. Obama is progressive in many areas, but just "more of the same" on civil rights. ... GOP complains about Obama's "secret $300 million". Silly. Finance laws should focus, as they do, on the big fish. I thought the GOP was for sensible limits on intrusive government regulations? |
| Holon of the Day: The Clock | |
"Every Quadrant Under a Lense" or "EQUAL Views" is a Web column written by Joe Perez, published most weekdays at Joe-Perez.com.
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