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Remains of the Day, 12/7/07


1. Family Research Council supports the fear and use of corporal punishment as an acceptable way to motivate children to behave. Don’t buy it for a second. Fear should be used only when it is actually present (i.e., when a child is about to put his or her finger in an outlet). The use of fear as a way to motivate your child – to peform well or to avoid certain behavior, will have consequences that parents can never redress. Trust me on this one.

2. “Play office politics without getting dirty” – I receive Ask Annie but I don’t read it all, all that often. This was a good one.

3. Quote from Political Wire:

“What exactly would it take for the president to conclude Musharraf has crossed the line? Suspend the constitution? Impose emergency law? Beat and jail his political opponents and human rights activists? He’s already done all that. If the president sees Musharraf as a democrat, he must be wearing the same glasses he had on when he looked in Vladimir Putin’s soul.”

– Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE), quoted by the Washington Post.

4. Phrom Pho, I learned that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. has purchased Beliefnet.com. My eyebrows are starting to get stuck in a raised position. A good post about it is here on BlogHer.

5. Italian city councilman suggests using SS tactic of killing 10 of theirs if they kill one of his in regard to punishing immigrants who break the law. Objectively outrageous? Requiring an apology?

6. Syrians blame Israelis for why they must block access to Facebook.

7. If you are serious about criticizing or lauding our county board of elections, then you won’t get any credibility unless you keep up with Adele Eisner’s blog, which contains great information to help you keep up.

8. Kids like this aren’t rare if you work at a children and family mental health agency. If you’ve never worked with the kind of child described in this article, you might want to reserve judgement, or at least ask some hard questions about life and what we owe one another just because we’re human before you decide who to condemn and what you think needs to change – if you think we can change anything that will lead to fewer lives ending like Robert Hawkins’ did.

9. Remember Pearl Harbor Day.

10. Look at this amazing work on an Ohio City home. Hattip to realNEO.

11. Some great Chanuka links from Roland.

12. Gloria Ferris on what we do.

13. Scott Bakalar at the Wom Blog and Jeff Hess on something I anticipated here.

14. Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use blog.

15. Again, I wish someone would bribe me and make me have to think about this problem.

Good shabbos and Chappy Chanuka, the fourth night.

By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:30 pm December 7th, 2007 in Politics, Remains of the Day 

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