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5.14.08 @ 12:01AM

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As for Mr. Mytty, the idea that Obama's interaction with Jews and Palestinians in Chicago (for Pete's sake!) somehow makes him fit to deal with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is laughable! I don't recall any Jewish neighborhoods in Chicago being shelled by their Palestinian neighbors lately, so there is absolutely no comparison there. If you honestly think that Obama having seen how Palestinians and Jews interact with one another in Chicago is a qualifier for his presidential ambitions shows me just how much of the "Obamania" you actually have.
-- Eric Edwards
Walnut Cove, North Carolina

BIG FAT FICTION
Re: Judah Friedman's In Defense of Miley Cyrus:

The reaction to Miley Cyrus having her pictures in Vanity Fair has been absolutely ludicrous. I am a little older than Judah Friedman having been 13 when the astronauts landed on the moon (that was July of 1969), and she is right the skirts were shorter and the magazines racier. It is a big fat fiction that people keep telling themselves that sex is more pervasive in society today than it was forty years ago.

Magazines like Newsweek, Time, Life, and Look regularly published articles involving photographs of nude people. Playboy was on the checkout lines at the grocery stores and while where I grew up in the Bible belt and didn't have exposure to the coasts the see through fashions and the no underwear fads hit the year after the school system dropped the dress code. Looking back on my fifteenth year now I think the school administrators probably wished that they had allowed girls to switch to wearing jeans to school years earlier so that dresses and skirts were a little less popular and the girls considerably more covered when that fad arrived. Those who believe that my experiences of the 1960s and early 1970's was not typical are right...in my town the police shot streakers in 1974 when that fad was sweeping the country. I lived in one of the most repressive regions of the country.

From 1966 to 1976 the media promoted every nutty fad there was until Jimmy Carter's election ushered in the age of repression. That is something of a joke since the media quit their decade long riotous celebration of transient heterosexual relations to take up feminist and homosexual agendas in the mid-1970's. We came very close to the ERA sweeping the support for normal families from the county's basic law. I don't know what the answer is but I doubt that boys not looking at girls "that way" has anything to do with it.
-- Gregory Franke

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