Jun 2, 2008

Different

Stanley Fish has a fascinating column in this morning's N.Y. Times about differences. He talks about folks who believe autistic children should be allowed to remain as they are...that autism is the same as eye color or height, and that no "cure" is needed. If that sounds rather "X-Men" to you, he draws the same analogy. When are differences too different?


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Today is a state holiday...the 200th anniversary of the birth of Jefferson Davis. As the 2011 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War appraoches, prepare for a tidal wave of programs re-examining America's most deadly war and why caused it.

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