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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Janice Shell who wrote (6583)	2/13/1998 10:25:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Respond to of 20981

Janice, Here I go carbon-dating myself again but when I was in school we didn't have afternoon anything! Classes started at the crack of dawn in California, which was primarily an agricultural state back then, and it was everybody up with the chickens (sorry TLC). During the height of the Cold War, I remember wondering on my way to school one morning whether or not we should suspend diplomatic relations with Balboa Island. I think that forced early rising and having to think and make sense can really warp a kid. Such early childhood and adolescent mental and physical trauma could very well account for why I now spend so much time on the Boink thread. Holly

To: Janice Shell who wrote (6583)	2/13/1998 10:26:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Janice, just reading that link I provided you and this part caught my eye. The State Board of Teaching never has taken any disciplinary action against Pannier. And because of the state's Data Practices Act, officials say, they can't even say whether they've ever received any complaints regarding Pannier's conduct. And it occurs to me that a theme in this whole Monica thing is privacy. Our society is really confused about this concept. It pops up in the most amazing places. You can't reveal anything in a rapist's records because it might abuse his privacy. Abortion is legal because laws against it interfere with a woman's right to privacy. And yet the IRS can strip search you every year and probe and examine every financial crevice. You go to a doctor for help and the information he collects about your body doesn't belong to you, it's the insurance company's ( and of course the govn't gets to peek at it if it wants). Privacy is a political football, a emotional time bomb, and of course, an illusion.