Daily Archives: October 9, 2003

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Late Night Reading

This entry was posted in Late Night Reads on October 9, 2003 by Steve

Eve Tushnet has a lengthy series on same sex marriage. The intro is here (then work towards the top). Via Jim Henley.

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Zero Tolerance

This entry was posted in Culture Education Law on October 9, 2003 by Steve

When it is applied to bad things like murder it is ok. We should not tolerate murder.
When it is used to eliminate applying intelligence to the evaluation of a situation it is bad and here is a an example of the bad.
For more examples Balloon Juice points to Losing my Tolerance for Zero Tolerance.

Via Talkleft.

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Sticks and stones may break your bones….

This entry was posted in Health Care on October 9, 2003 by Steve

And those words will hurt as well:

Writing in the journal Science, Lieberman and Eisenberger said the brains of the volunteers lit up when they were rejected in virtually the same way as a person experiencing physical pain.
“It would be odd if social pain looked like the exact same thing as someone-breaking-your-arm pain,” Lieberman said in a telephone interview. “What it does look like is visceral pain.”
In other words — like being punched in the stomach.

Go check it out.

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Does Arnold need practice?

This entry was posted in California on October 9, 2003 by Steve

Brett Marston found this picture of some of Arnold’s fans.
While looking through other Arnold pics at Kurier, an Austrian newspaper, I saw this one and wondered if, perhaps, Arnia and Maria should take some lessons from this pair.

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