Let's be reactionary about it.  Let's go back to the not-so-distant past (150, 200 years ago?) when most folks lived in one-room houses, often with parents reproducing in the same bed that their children slept in.  Or back a little farther, before there were one-room houses, and parents just did it out in the open, as did the neighbors.  We build modern civilization on this foundation. 

Therefore, I'm not too worried about kids finding out about sex at an early age, as this has been the norm for most of history.

"In the past, women were mostly objectified. Now, they are denigrated, humiliated and abused. "

You're kidding, right?  Women, and men, have been ill-treated for all of recorded history.  Rape of the Sabine Woman, anyone, for starters?  That founded Rome...

"Reminds me of Prop 8 supporters who were harassed."

Yeah, I suspect it's by design.  A lot of people would support things anonymously that they wouldn't support publicly, especially if they know that people will show up on their front lawn and protest, or audit them.

Whittling down the number of people who participate is good for the Left, bad for the Republic.

"Rationing is only for the little people."

DocJay: "So are smaller cars or public transit. So are smaller apartments and they don't shop at whole foods."

There's a big difference between "can't afford" and "sorry, but the rationing board has decided you can't have it."  The former can be chalked up to bad luck or poor planning.  The latter gets us to death panels and the current IRS scandal.  Bureaucrats running our lives.

I'd rather take my chances.

Or this:

"The report doesn’t say what, if anything, the IRS did with donor information, but it is hard to see what purpose the request could have other than to allow harassment of donors to conservative groups, as, for example, through audits."

"The Latest on the IRS Scandal"

Can conservatives please stop being patsies to the Left's schemes?  Assume they're operating in bad faith.  You won't often be disappointed.

"Professor Hasen thinks that the thing to do in response is to strengthen disclosure laws. I have no problem with that..."

You've both got to be kidding...

Disclosure needs to go too, as the Left just uses it to find targets to attack.

"Romney donor bashed by Obama campaign now target of two federal audits."

"Rationing is coming folks, make no mistake of that."

But folks like Ms. Jolie will get their care, elective or not, in-country or not.  Rationing is only for the little people.

I think it's a bit crazy to have this surgery as a preventative measure...  But then again I don't have to live with the risk looming over my head.

The odds are not 87%, they're quite a bit lower, and they do not "cluster" in families: the fact that her mother had it doesn't affect her risk, other than being predisposed to it because of the gene.

Breast and ovarian cancer incidence in BRCA1-mutation carriers.

But her risk also does not go to "almost nothing", it's still 2%... Although 90% is a big reduction in absolute risk.

Bilateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Reduces Breast Cancer Risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers

Plus, as a movie-goer, it's a disappointment, although I'm sure Hollywood will solve that problem!

In other news, sun rises in East, dog bites man. 

Why do we care what Friedman writes?  Why read him? (I sure don't.)

"Forget the Unemployment Rate: The Alarming Stat Is the Number of 'Missing Workers'"

http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/forget-the-unemployment-rate-the-alarming-stat-is-the-number-of-missing-workers-20130503

If the military is going PC, we need to shut it down.  Makes me happy those sequester cuts went through...

“A standing army is one of the greatest mischiefs that can possibly happen.” -- James Madison

I understood that a lot of the people who are dropping out of the unemployment statistics were going on the Social Security Disability rolls, which is why those rolls have skyrocketed.

“...since the economy began its slow, slow recovery in late 2009, we’ve been averaging about 150,000 jobs created per month. In that same period every month, almost 250,000 people have been applying for disability.”

http://lfb.org/today/hiding-the-unemployed-disability-and-the-politics-of-stats/

He's wrong about the first part...

There are zero traditional cultures that do not have a native religion, including heros.  Only modern socialist cultures have even attempted this, and it's not going well so far.

So why do we love superheroes (Enterprise wasn't that bad, btw!)?  Because it's our modern, secular substitute for religion, answering a deep, but ill-understood need for a supernatural.

"...these people are a perfect "wedge"..."

It's a little late to be worried about a wedge.  The door's wide open, and has been for decades.

The primary problem with Judith's post is that everything the Left does is secular.  They've careful defined it that way.  That doesn't mean it's innocuous... And that doesn't mean we should be fooled by their definitions, or accept them, as she's done.

"The harm would be the "advancement" of the narrative that the Republicans are racist to oppose our First Black President."

Sticks and stones... The left thinks Republicans are racist, regardless.  It's an article of faith.  Stop worrying about that, and do the right thing.  If you make a stink, and you're clearly not racist, the truth will out, eventually.

"Germany is not out to smother any particular religious group or even all religious groups—its goal is a shared experience."

That's a bit obtuse, I think.  The goal is in fact to smother the transmission of values that the state does not share from parent to child.  And the children will be taken away from the parents if they don't comply.  The "shared experience" they're trying to promote is a servile attitude.

How one can think that's not "oppression" mystifies me, unless, like the American leftists, you share the goal...

So how is this case any different from that of the Pennsylvania Dutch, many of whom also fled Germany because they could not freely practice their religion,  for whom the American government offers all sorts of accomodations?