Archive for April, 2008




Gottleib on Steinbeck

“The extraordinary thing about John Steinbeck is how good he can be when so much of the time he’s so bad.” (See also.)

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Because when you can’t get information about abortion, unwanted pregnancy rates drop!

Building, perhaps, on the resounding success of abstinence-only sex education, a government-funded health database has reprogrammed its software to prevent users from searching for information about abortion. The term has been reclassified as a “stop word,” meaning that it is treated as the functional equivalent of “a,” “an,” and “the” (terms automatically omitted from searches under the assumption that they . . .

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