by mod lang » 07 Feb 2004, 14:09
<img src="http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2004/02/07/arts/gay.1842.jpg">
>Squawk and Milou, male chinstrap penguins, are among several homosexual pairs at the Central Park Zoo in Manhattan. Homosexual behavior has been documented in some 450 animal species, one researcher says.
<a target=new href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/07/arts/07GAY.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1076134041-BWXGnzhirAfStnb5eFSPCA">Love That Dare Not Squeak Its Name</a>
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who do not have it."
-- George Bernard Shaw
Show me a cultural relativist at thirty thousand feet and I'll show you a hypocrite. Airplanes are built according to scientific principles and they work. They stay aloft and they get you to a chosen destination. Airplanes built to tribal or mythological specifications such as the dummy planes of the Cargo cults in jungle clearings or the bees-waxed wings of Icarus don't.