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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Poet who wrote (32662)	10/14/2001 10:17:09 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

LOL back atcha. I declared victory and quit reading as soon as the piece gave me the opportunity. All I care about is that I and the people around me behave themselves and that the religious among us respect the fact that I am not inherently less able to do that than they are. I couldn't care less about the ontological considerations. Karen

To: Poet who wrote (32662)	10/14/2001 10:37:40 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I heard something disconcerting on CNN this morning before I switched to Sunday Morning. They were interviewing a woman named Gross who had interviewed 800 women in Afghanistan not long ago. She said that some women in the south hadn't had a bath in years. The Taliban closed the public baths so they couldn't bathe unless they had a male family member who carried water into their house, which many women don't have. She also said that all women must take a bath after their periods before they are clean enough to pray. So these unbathes women are unable to pray. It just gets weirder and weirder. Speaking of surveys, I was listening yesterday to someone who had done a survey for Newsweek this last week. There's an article on it at the Newsweek site but the article didn't mention this tidbit--six percent of respondents said they had purchased precautions for biological attacks, either gas masks or antibiotics. I was surprised that the number was so high. It seems pointless. The newscaster who anchored the segment rather giddily said that she had her stash of antibiotics in her purse just in case. Unprofessional of her I thought. We live in interesting times. Karen