Homocon

4. "Bottom line: Cindy Sheehan has taken her personal grief and turned it into a public crusade, complete with TV commercials. Which means she’s taken her personal grief and politicized it—at which point, because she is now using it to try to affect policy, it would be anti-democratic to suggest that those who disagree with the political changes she desires are somehow not allowed to speak up, or to shrink from pointing out that the force of her particular policy prescriptions come not from some special knowledge she possesses of foreign policy or Arab culture, but rather from the emotional sympathy we have for the death of her son."

5. "Never heard of Plumpy'nut? Come to Maradi, a bustling crossroads where the number of malnourished children exceeds even the flocks of motor scooters flitting down its dirt streets. At this epicenter of Niger's latest hunger crisis, Plumpy'nut is saving lives . . . "

6. "If the multitude of Chinese blogs facing official censorship instead became hosted on a multitude of independent servers around the world, the Chinese government would end up having to block a significant portion of the net to shut them out -- and that portion would grow and grow as the blogs found new adoptive hosts."

7. "Iran was also among the delegates hoping to inject the United Nations into the process of overseeing Internet protocols, domain names and network stability. Before taking these folks too seriously, though, let's recall that Iran ranks in the bottom few percent of the 2004 Index of Economic Freedom, bans more than 10,000 "immoral" Web sites and jailed Iranian journalist and Web logger Sina Motallebi last year. All this raises the question whether these are nations that should decide the rules for a worldwide Internet."

8. "We did not choose war for the sake of war itself and we didn't sacrifice a million lives for fun! We could've accepted our jailor and kept living in our chains for the rest of our lives but it's freedom ma'am. Freedom is not an American thing and it's not an Iraqi thing, it's what unites us as human beings . . . We are in need for every hand that can offer some help; Your son (Casey Sheehan)sacrificed his life for a very noble cause . . . for the most precious value in this existence; that is freedom."

9. "It was a scene that would be constantly repeated throughout the first weeks of the Bush retreat; dozens of panicked media professionals wandering the streets of Crawford, searching in vain for alternative weeklies, gallery openings and Peruvian-Vietnamese tapa parlors, only to be met with blank stares and offers of free beer. The experience stunned many."

10. "Scientists have uncovered the genetic sequence for one of the strongest silks that spiders produce, a discovery that could one day be used to make super spider-silk products for humans . . . It would be incredibly strong, flexible and ultimately, biodegradable.”

ADDENDUM:
Sexual-Identity obsessed, gay-lefty Dan Savage guest blogs for Andrew Sullivan? What a lousy disservice to Sullivan's conservative readers. Ha Ha Ha . . . *snort*! Like Andrew Sullivan has any "conservative readers" left . . .