Today's Token Attempt at Normality: Dan Savage has responded to people writing about Seth Watkins, the HIV-positive AIDS educator who talked about having unsafe sex in his column. He pretty much takes no prisoners in his response to the one negative (what a peculiar word in that context) letter he received. Not that I disagree, necessarily. (Although he's wrong on one thing: you do hear straight people talk about "birth control fatigue", although it's not phrased quite that way; it somehow seems to come out as, "I'm sick and tired of taking the pill/being responsible for everything! If YOU don't want babies, then YOU do something about it!" Granted, that's usually only heard in longterm relationships. But you do hear single women talking about being tired of taking whatever precautions it is that they use.)
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12/18/2001: shame on winn dixie, indeed
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12/17/2001: a victim of the attack ... yeah, right
12/17/2001: polluters ho!