Apt quote

From one of fayanora's tweets:

I think part of the reason we have trouble drawing the line “it’s not okay to force someone into sexual activity” is that in many ways, forcing people to do things is part of our culture in general. Cut that shit out of your life. If someone doesn’t want to go to a party, try a new food, get up and dance, make small talk at the lunchtable—that’s their right. Stop the “aww c’mon” and “just this once” and the games where you playfully force someone to play along. Accept that no means no—all the time.

The Afghanistan mess

The question that no one has addressed is why on earth were they burning *any* books?

If they'd just hauled off the books to be donated or something, things would have been fine.

Oh god. On NBC news they just had a general (possibly retired) calling Afghanistan a "primitive society".

Gee whiz, no wonder they aren't buying our apologies. We *aren't* showing them any respect, so there's no reason to buy the apologies.