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...Richman, despite his incredible influence over more than 26 years of playing music, has had only one hit--"Egyptian Reggae," an instrumental dance number that scraped the bottom of the charts in Europe about 22 years ago. Richman's recording career, among the most varied in rock, is what ought to be garnering all the attention; his first songs were highly influential proto-punk, but he has since refused to play any song that might injure the ears of infants. So it was a little odd to find him stuck in the middle of the intermittently amusing spectacle of immaturity...
Similarly, Liebert argues that gays and lesbians ought to "prove beyond a doubt that homosexual union is a viable, albeit heretofore unexplored, version of virtuous living"-- suggesting that gay families are some kind of questionable new fad, like Viagra or swing dancing. Most gay and lesbian people aren't interested in proving that their relationships are "viable"--they're too busy simply living their lives together. Civil rights and basic legal benefits should not be dependent on offering evidence of our "virtue...
Play, according to some conservative critics, is precisely what four-year-olds ought to be doing--at home with Mom. "It's a transfer of funds away from the mother taking care of the child," says Patrick Fagan, FitzGerald fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. "It's a double taxation on the mother at home. She takes care of her own kids and pays for others...
Maybe this concern for what our fears of domestic terrorism might someday, not too far off, do to our way of life is just a sort of intellectual McGuffin, designed to make us soppy liberals take The Siege more seriously than we ought to. The movie does, after all, present the bruising, intricately staged spectacle of New York City brought to a quaking halt by a series of ever more serious bombings--first a bus, then a crowded theater, then a federal building--mounted by that lately easiest-to-despise of all groups, Arab fanatics. A panicked government institutes martial...
...going to take a lot more than food and medicine to save Central America. For starters, the governments of Honduras and Nicaragua suggested Monday, their combined foreign debt of $10 billion ought to be discounted, and then they'll need a few billion more to rebuild the region in the wake of Hurricane Mitch. "These countries have suffered an infrastructural apocalypse," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim Padgett. "With damage equaling more than 60 percent of the two countries' combined GDP, emergency aid won't be enough -- it will require a long-term commitment from the industrialized world...