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...creatures of pure enlightenment. They read Voltaire and Rousseau. They championed reason and logic long before the surface world did, they took on the scientific method. And they are really the foundational, dare I say grounding, principals upon which our middle class, merchant-based democracy rests. They are the anti-hobos. They have slime dripping from their bodies, sure, and the smell of their saliva is very specific. Yes, they occasionally eat their own young, but they champion knowledge and art, and they possess the ability to create and express the most beautiful thoughts...
...former president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter at Yale, Bush defended the fraternity's practice of branding its pledges with a red-hot coat hanger - deserves more national attention ... On Sunday, Trudeau's cartoon "Doonesbury" featured fictional character Mark Slackmeyer explaining the President's position against current anti-torture legislation by revisiting a series of 1967 Yale Daily News articles that exposed DKE's rush activities, which at the time included brandings and alleged beatings...
...seven bipartisan, statewide polls cited by the Initiative & Referendum Institute at the University of Southern California law school since May, only one gives the advantage to supporters of Prop. 8. But that poll, by SurveyUSA, also happens to be the most recent; released on Oct. 6, it shows the anti-gay-marriage campaign ahead...
...near term than any kind of wholesale reversal of fortune at the ballot boxes, says Kristina Wilfore, executive director of the Washington-based Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, an advocacy organization that specializes in using ballot initiatives to further liberal causes. Wilfore says her group picks its battles in fighting anti-gay-marriage amendments largely because most votes aren't even close. "We would never bring gay marriage up before the voters," she says. "This is [our opponents'] strategy." She admits they've been terribly good...
Thailand's political crisis appeared to deepen on Tuesday when the country's Supreme Court sentenced former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to two years in prison for violating conflict of interest laws while in office. The Supreme Court delivered a victory to the anti-Thaksin protesters that have been camped out in Bangkok for months when it ruled 5 to 4 that the former Thai leader broke Thai law by approving the sale of state-owned Bangkok real estate to his wife for $22.7 million...