It's time someone praised and defended reckless teenage girls and young women who behave badly, dress provocatively, engage in risky sex, and get pregnant.

They are the normal ones. The rest of us are the deviants. They are behaving in the most natural way. The rest of us are mutants.

There is nothing wrong with pelvic display, push-up bras, Gosford miniskirts, spray-on jeans, low-cut tops, bare legs, bare arms, bare ankles, G-strings or even buttock cleavage, providing the displayer is young enough to get away with it.

A woman's body is at its fertility peak between the ages of 17 and 23. So when young women advertise or flaunt their sexuality they are being driven by a force far stronger than the Judeo-Christian ethic.   more »

On September 4, 2007, the New York Times reported, "The number of American children and adolescents treated for bipolar disorder increased 40-fold from 1994 to 2003 ... Drug makers and company-sponsored psychiatrists have been encouraging doctors to look for the disorder."

Not too long ago, a child who was irritable, moody, and distractible and who at times sounded grandiose or acted without regard for consequences was considered a "handful."

In the U.S. by the 1980s, that child was labeled with a "behavioral disorder" and today that child is being diagnosed as "bipolar" and "psychotic" -- and prescribed expensive antipsychotic drugs.

Bloomberg News, also on September 4, 2007, reported, "The expanded use of bipolar as a pediatric diagnosis has made children the fastest-growing part of the $11.5 billion U.S. market for anti-psychotic drugs."   more »

Here comes the news that you, your ravaged and saddened heart, and the world at large have all just awarded Bush's disastrous, embarrassing, profoundly disgusting occupation of Iraq "War of the Year," for the fourth consecutive year.

"On behalf of myself and my boss who will both go down in history as two of the most insipid and deleterious world leaders you will ever have the displeasure of miserably recalling all your sad and pathetic days, I can only say, who the fuck are you people and how did you get past security?" snarled Vice President Dick Cheney, from the side of his mouth, appearing in a ragged black bathrobe with little pink hand grenades stitched all over it, and carrying a shotgun. "Get off my lawn!"

"It is high honor to be even nominated," said the clearly touched, bullet-riddled and violently hemorrhaging nation of Iraq, upon barely hearing the news over the sounds of raging gunfire and explosions and all the screaming.

"To win once more, to now officially take place among most unnecessary, vile and costly wars of all time, to permanently etch name of our tiny, underwhelming nation into mind and heart and history of most powerful country in world.   more »

I have personal reasons to fear the danger that Ms. Bhutto's presence in Pakistan brings, but I am not alone. The Islamists are waiting at the gate.

They have been waiting for confirmation that the reforms for which the Pakistani people have been struggling have been a farce, propped up by the White House.

Since Musharraf seized power in 1999, there has been an earnest grass-roots movement for democratic reform. The last thing we need is to be tied to a neocon agenda through a puppet "democrat" like Ms. Bhutto.

By supporting Ms. Bhutto, who talks of democracy while asking to be brought to power by a military dictator, the only thing that will be accomplished is the death of the nascent secular democratic movement in my country.   more »

Hillary Clinton regained her front runner status in the Democratic race during a two-hour debate in Las Vegas tonight marked by renewed personal squabbling.

Clinton needed a good performance to make up the ground she lost in the last debate on October 30 when her main rivals, Barack Obama and John Edwards, ganged up on her.

Obama and Edwards again renewed the personal attacks on Clinton and the three engaged in the biggest row since the 2008 presidential campaign got underway in earnest earlier this year.

They swapped jibes in a quickfire, 10 minute burst, at the start of the debate.   more »