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Someday

I’m strong I’m sure
I’m in control
A man with a plan
Believing that life
Is a neat little package
I hold in my hand
I’ve got it together
They call me the guy
Who knows just what to say and do
Still I stumble and fall
Run into the wall
‘Cause when it comes to you
I’m just another fella in love
A kid out of school
A [...]

Oh, gimme a break!

Today in the Washington Post:

…Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba attributed the [Abu Ghraib] scandal to the willful actions of a small group of soldiers and to “a failure of leadership” and supervision by brigade and lower-level commanders. …
But several senators challenged the notion that low-ranking soldiers could have devised the particularly humiliating measures on [...]

Unbelievable, Outrageous, Criminal

I read today about David Reimer, a man who had been raised as a girl after doctors botched his circumcision and then convinced his parents to simply cut the rest of it off and raise him as a girl, claiming that gender and sexual identity is determined by environmental factors. He committed suicide last week [...]