Washington or Oregon are the most politically polarized states. And, red and blue talk past each other on sex: Social liberals in the country’s “blue states” tend to support sex education and are not particularly troubled by the idea that many teen-agers have sex before marriage, but would regard a teen-age daughter’s pregnancy as devastating…
Month: October 2008
Shoe, meet other foot (part 2)
Olyforum notices the original post, and responds: Here, all opinions are welcome, despite whether you agree or not and are never shut down. The ONE thread that did get shut but was never deleted because the poster verbally abused others. It wasn’t just MY decision, it was put to a collective vote and ultimately, the…
Re: Sonics fans can turn south
NEVER! Its bad enough that the Olympian carries the Jailblazers in their daily game calendar now. If all I cared about was the geographic proximity of a major league sports team when there wasn’t one in that league nearer, I’d be a Canucks fan too. And, why support a league that would take away the…
Olympia is a city, a community, not a metonymic device
Randy Neatherlin’s new newspaper insert: Randy says that Olympia is to blame. Well, not literally “Olympia,” as in the city I live in, but rather the place as it represents some other out there for citizens in the 35th LD. Yes, I understand the point of metonymy: the press is not literally a printing press,…