Weekend Opinion Roundup
Weekend and Monday Opinion from the LA Times:
W. Hodding Carter: Why we're flush with success
It's difficult to plumb the depths of the debt the civilized world owes to the brains behind our drains.
Niall Ferguson: Young, Desperate and Hot -- It's a Volatile Mix
Forget the '60s and 'Make Love, Not War.' Today's world is facing a Summer of Rage, especially in the Middle East.
David P. Barash: When Man Mated Monkey
Icky as it sounds, we mingled across species in the past, which could help us win evolution wars in the future.
Dave Fratello: Jail Won't Cure Drug Users
Proposition 36 mandated treatment to overcome addiction. A new law turns that notion on its head.
Editorials
Middle East: Response and Responsibility
Hezbollah, along with its Syrian and Iranian backers, bear the blame for the Israel-Lebanon crisis.
Hooray for Media Consolidation
It might sound counterintuitive, but Time Warner controlling 98% of L.A.'s cable market is good for consumers.
Doha's Hope for Africa
Lowering tariffs on medicine could save millions.
Selected Weekend Commentary:
William Powers: Breaking news
Shrinking circulation! Fact-checking goofs! Partisan reporting! Despite the scare headlines, journalism's sob story may still have a happy ending.
Kyle Pope: The Critics Hated 'Pirates of the Caribbean.' So What?
In movies, books, TV and theater, audiences know what they like, no matter what mainstream critics say.
Constance L. Rice: The LAPD: Back From Scandal
Police and city leaders are on the right track to changing the department's image.
Charles L. Linder: Arrest Immigrants, Flood the Courts
Congress is blind to what a border crackdown would do to the overworked judiciary.
Morton H. Halperin: Bush: Worse Than Nixon
The writer was on Richard Nixon's "enemies list," but Bush's power grab has him really worried.
Michael Skube: We're Not Soccer Suckers
Media scolds want Americans to join the global party, but we're not buying it.
Gary Hufbauer: Confronting the 'Dear Leader'
Economic sanctions coupled with offers of aid aren't much, but they're all we have in our standoff with North Korea.
Meghan Daum: Behind Batwoman's Gayness
Today's women are pigeonholed as either girly girls or lesbians.
Ms. Daum,
There are real women out here who teach their daughters to circumnavigate a lot of the propaganda and silliness they are subjected to about what it means to be a woman. We raise our daughters with an eye to financial security and emotional independence. We teach them to cherish their beauty and not feel a need to flaunt it. We teach them that having a child means raising a child without making the vulnerable child compete for their time and energy. We teach them the selflessness needed to attend an aging parent rather then a large home or skiing vacations. Our daughters grow to be intelligent, selfless and selfish. And they don’t need to deify lesbians or condemn them. They do not need to apologize for wanting a man to hold the door that they know they are perfectly capable of holding themselves because they are gracious and love being female and enjoy male nurturance and respect male strength and male differences as a wonder of Mother Nature and not a conspiracy against women or a result of socailization. Our daughters are women of character, not stereotypes who need to convince the world of their competency. They assume it. They need only to respect themselves because they do not fail the people who so very much need them no matter the changing social tides of the times. We women are the same throughout history because these are some of the attributes of real women.
Joan Z. Greiner
Posted by: Joan Z. Greiner | July 17, 2006 at 01:34 PM