Womyn's Hystery Watch

Ruth Rosen, our favorite womyn's hystery professor turned hysteroid newspaper columnist and human rights (for genocidal dictators) activist, has this in her column in today's San Francisco Chronicle.

These are times that test our character. Al Qaeda threatens terrorist acts; North Korea risks going ballistic. Our government presses for war with Iraq, condemns our traditional allies, considers using tactical nuclear weapons, curtails our civil liberties, shreds our social services and offers the rich even more of the nation's wealth.

Actually, Ruth, Al Qaeda commits terrorist acts, it doesn't just threaten them. That is a little different from considering the use of certain weapons in unlikely hypothetical combat situations. North Korea already has gone ballistic. Reducing the amount of income that the government confiscates from its citizens is not the same as handing over more of the "nation's wealth". Unless you're a Maoist who thinks that private property is a crime. Well, maybe you are.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at February 17, 2003 07:14 AM