Top Stories Monday 25 Nov
Ruminate This still wants you to undertake
action about the whole Eli Lilly/Thimerosal mess:
Why not pick up the phone and dial up that toll-free congressional switchboard at 1-800-839-5276, and tell your representatives precisely what you think about politicians…Dems and Reps, who vote for screwing over the families of autism, while crushing American privacy, civil liberties and worker protection…all so they can pander to the special interests, and by extension, save their political skin? We have the power to make a difference. Call them.
Body and Soul publishes a long
thoughful and impressive e-mail exchange with a reader about tolerance, cultural sensitivity, Islam and the left:
Over the past week or so I’ve had an interesting e-mail conversation with a reader about how politics, religion, women’s rights, business, cultural values (and sensitivity) and a lot of other things all weave together. At some point I realized that a lot of the issues we were talking about were things I hadn’t seen much conversation about between people with basically liberal values. Mostly the “conversation” (if you want to call it that) has consisted of liberals defending themselves against attacks by conservatives — attacks that have been outrageous and irrelevant. That the right wing use of the issues has been stupid and opportunistic, however, doesn’t mean there aren’t issues here to discuss. Are liberals too culturally sensitive, too “politically correct”? Is there a conflict between standing up for women’s rights and refusing to demonize people who don’t value those rights? How do you separate encouraging democracy from creating a corporate-friendly (and exploitative) environment? Those are just a few of the questions that arose.