Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 8:53AM | by Otter These same parents pay for programs for their own autistic spectrum kids, children born with brains that are out of the normal run. I know for a fact that they tolerate girls with autistic spectrum disorders in the Girl Scouts. But only some such abnormalities merit their toleration: the compassion has a limit.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 11:46PM | by Otter Dull, but informative...
Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 10:08PM | by Otter From the Mailbag:
Do you subscribe to Helen Thomas's view that the Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine"?
No.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 5:38PM | by Otter
Updated on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 11:58AM by
Otter
I've been asked lately in the mailbag (and Twitter) why I haven't responded to the BP hostile takeover of the Gulf of Mexico.
Really, it's because I can't write about BP without profanity.
BP, Environment, Louisiana, Oil Spill in Environment Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 3:04PM | by Otter 
You Did Not Die In Vain: We Have Cheaper Gas
I've (provisionally) defined love pretty broadly here: the energy for creating and sustaining life-giving relationships. The costs are high, there's no doubt about that. And it's interesting to see love's basic justice when our lifestyle is so out of balance.
