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To escape biopolitics, access to holes has to be much more politicized than what gay activists and polygamists think.

In 1991, Olive Watson adopted her same-sex partner, Patricia Spado. By doing so, Olive made Patricia her "child" so that she would be able to inherit from her upon Olive's death. In 2004, Olive's father's widow died triggering trusts which provide distributions to Olive's father's grandchildren. Patricia, as an adopted grandchild, is claiming that she is entitled to a share of the trust. However, the relationship between Olive and Patricia is no longer harmonious and Olive's family is attempting to set aside the adoption by claiming that the proceeding was somehow fraudulent, e.g., that Patricia lied about her state of residence or that she deceived the court about the adoption by not telling the court about her sexual relationship with Olive. This case is receiving national attention because the family consists of the descendants of Thomas J. Watson, Sr., the founder of I.B.M. On April 24, 2008, a probate judge granted the family's request to annul the adoption on the residency issue. The ruling was sealed and was just recently revealed. Spado has filed an appeal with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. She is arguing that the adoption should not be annulled because the adoption existed for over 14 years without dispute. The court may hear the case as early as this fall. http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/trusts_es...-watson-up.html

Gay marriage is not about kissing it is about two intimately related matters. 1) Forming unions that will allow individuals to shelter their wealth away from the public purse and 2) having access to fewer types of holes. To fully understand, you have to witness the link in between having live through a traumatic anal stage and compulsive behavior to collect things.

Capitalist societies (that is, liberal democracies) legalize every social practice that is unstable enough to generate more business activities. If same-sex marriage is being legalized more rapidly than polygamy, it is because SSM is clearly more socially destabilizing.

Capitalism concentrates wealth by using human (which are formal and individualistic) rights to get mobility from us. In other words, allowing (barely, minimally, for the form only) "consenting" individuals to do whatever they want has become the most powerful marketing tools.

Careful! Global capitalism creates minorities, as its main strategy, to thrive.

You are getting very close to Marxism with its infrastructure (material wealth) and superstructure (ideological indoctrination). Accumulating wives (the best ones) as an extension of wealth accumulation can only operate if the male bachelors have been indoctrinated to see themselves as an underclass.

For a lot of Muslims, women's emancipation, gay rights, etc., are nothing but the decadent moral aspect of Western imperialism. And indeed, we have to argue that the events of '68, that produced gay rights, feminism, essentially have only helped to give a new push to capitalism. At a more general level, pseudo-naturalized ethno-religious conflicts are the form of struggle which best suits global capitalism. In the age of 'post-politics', when politics proper is progressively replaced by expert social administration, the sole remaining legitimate sources of conflict are cultural (religious) or natural (ethnic) tensions. To get rid of capitalist exploitation, we have now to be against human rights. Politics has to become a politics of subtraction. http://libcom.org/library/against-human-rights-zizek

No. A secret thought.

Is it an unfair advantage to someone if he gets no religious content from public education or is it rather an unfair disadvantage? I really would like to know.

Who is too proud to wait for his turn!?

It is much worse than that: a lot of Conservatives have evolved to the point where they are valuing sun burns (their rednecks) more than anything else.

But if you are good like Jesus, you can, after your death, inspire people to make chastity vows.

"They (the workers) have nothing else than their children to contribute to society" was the reasoning of the ruling class in Rome.

The age difference at the time of marriage in between males and females has been explained by the fact that marriage is a kind of waiting game.

Think at dual citizenship as a coping arrangement when one citizenship falters.

"There is just not enough good men to go around" was how one of the (female) spouses legitimizes the polygamy of her husband.

Indeed, the word "proletariat" comes from the Latin proles which means "offspring" or "child".

Uncle Tom is dead.

Delaware-registered corporations: http://www.city-data.com/states/Delaware-Taxation.html

Remember I told you that speculation is very powerful to a point that it can even cure paranoia. Indeed, because most animals aren't able of reflexivity, when they look at themselves in a mirror, they attack it like if it was an enemy.

Sudan's security agencies say the initial recommendations for Mr. Abdelrazik detention emerged from CSIS. CSIS denies that. Canadians would obviously need another supra-secret agency to spy on the activities of CSIS.

Also, Mr. Abdelrazik prayed at Montreal's Assuna Annabawiah mosque, widely regarded as a hotbed of Islamic extremism.

It may be enough, time (and statistics) will tell when we'll see how the young come to deal with death. The main point to me is that, leaving to parents alone all the leeway to introduce religion to their kids is unfair.

Sudan's security agencies say the initial recommendations for Mr. Abdelrazik detention emerged from CSIS. CSIS denies that.