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...negatively, and, in fact, I'd sort of be disappointed if they didn't. But when I went through this experience, it was so ... to use the word 'helpful' is ridiculous. It saved my life to know other women who had gone through it. If there's ever a point to the memoir, which is necessarily a narcissistic endeavor, it's to give people a sense that they're not alone...
...What do you think of spanking? I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it. I can completely sympathize with someone who has spanked...
...party routinely sided with corporate lobbyists - promoting tax breaks, subsidies and earmarks for well-wired industries - against ordinary taxpayers as well as basic principles of fiscal restraint. South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint's Republican alternative to the stimulus included tax cuts skewed toward the wealthy; at this point, the GOP's reflexes are almost involuntary...
...With oil refineries targeted as the point of control for vehicular sources of warming gases, Texans are fighting for the same concessions as other energy-intensive industries. A proposal that renewable resources account for 25% of electricity by 2025 has upset Southerners, who lack the solar and geothermal energy of other regions. They are seeking credit for nuclear and hydroelectric power more plentiful in their part of the country...
...bombing in Farah is a case in point. Abdulkarim Sharifi, a resident of the province, says locals have already lost faith in the government because militants are visible "everywhere," sometimes traveling in convoys of 10 to 15 vehicles in plain view of Afghan security forces who dare not leave their walled compounds. "They are so free to move around that some actually think the U.S. is helping them," he said by phone. Roshan, the councilwoman, insists the U.S. forces have done just that by killing people they were sent to protect. "The Taliban are murderers, but when...