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More importantly, however, Coulter (and her faithful minions) gave LGBT organizations a golden opportunity, and they squandered it. There are few occasions when homophobic speech comes from a source that is indisputably further from the mainstream than these organizations themselves. This “incident” (if you can even call it that) had all the makings of one of those occasions. Yet the HRC and GLAAD, in taking Coulter seriously, only diminished their own respectability...
...hard should we push the envelope when it comes to medical progress? Despite what seems like an obvious answer in this case of clavicle fractures - "don't push it that hard" - the question is complex. Mainstream treatments of today were often on the dangerous fringe list 20 years ago. Aggressive advancement is the hallmark of American medicine. Yet there is, somewhere, a line to be drawn. Why? New diagnostic tests often give us more information than we can actually use or even interpret. If you do enough MRIs or blood tests, for example, you're bound to find something that...
...wine drinking grows more mainstream and the NASCAR demographic gets more upscale, the two will inevitably intersect. Ravenswood Winery in Sonoma is banking on it so much that this year they will be the primary sponsor for the No. 27 Ford in three races, which means the car will be painted to look like sloshing wine going 200 miles per hour. The slogan: No Wimpy Wines. To core racing fans who are more partial to beer, that may be hard to believe - and too much to swallow...
Osburn added that the policy reinforces the status imposed on gays by mainstream society and the government...
...Pretty much everyone in mainstream politics, right and left, then condemned her. Coulter is very good at sparking these controversies. She does it once or twice a year, to the great benefit of her fame and book sales (you can read my fuller take on the last Coulter explosion, regarding 9/11 widows here...