Last week I wrote an item about the recent court decision in Oregon on whether or not a 12 year old Olympia boy should be circumcised. The court ruled the lad should have a say in the matter. My concern was whether the dispute itself--public litigation between his divorced parents--could itself be psychologically damaging to the boy. My brief post quickly went to the top of the Crosscut charts. One reason: men arguing the pros and cons of the procedure. Emotions ran high: some men liken the experience to being raped. Now the debate has spilled over into feminist circles. That right, a girl fight over penises.
Last week, cars and passengers disembarking the San Juan Islands route at Anacortes were met by feds who inquired about everyone's citizenship. Normally, no big deal. But this checkpoint was for a boat that had not been to Canada. The government isn't saying much about it, but islanders are buzzing.
Thursday's New York Times broke a fascinating story about the connections between Bill Clinton and the dapper Vancouver mining mogul, Frank Giustra.
The story, reporting how Clinton accompanied Giustra on a trip to Kazakhstan which resulted in both a uranium concession for Giustra and a $31.3 million contribution from Giustra to the William J. Clinton Foundation, capped a bad week for the ex-president, who's now drawing hostile media scrutiny once again after injecting himself into the presidential race.
Random notes and links on the Microsoft bid for Yahoo ...
... As the day unfolds, Phase 2 of coverage will kick in for tomorrow morning's news cycle, and the focus will be on how this deal would actually work. Wait. It's already begun. Writes a BusinessWeek blogger:
But what a messy combination this will be, for months and even years to come. Maybe Yahoo is just too compelling a property for Microsoft, perennially struggling to stem the Google tide, to pass up. Clearly, Yahoo hasn't managed to get its act together fast enough. But neither has Microsoft – even less so vs. Google than Yahoo.
A blue-ribbon panel on police accountability buries some significant proposals for reform in a bland-seeming report. But some new political conditions, and public pressure, could produce actual change.
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