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Why is it illegal to make political comments in Amethi? Surely this is not a sign of Amethi's enlightenment.
Oh, actually--this is an interesting thing. The Indian Supreme Court is about to issue a ruling in the Ayudhiya Mosque case. This is the kind of thing that can readily give rise to communal violence. That's no joke in India.
Should speech on Twitter be suppressed in light of this?

I'm not actually sure that I feel confident in the Enlightenment where this kind of thing is concerned.
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This is true, and this also makes me wonder if my brain is just wired up differently. I respond very, very strongly (and adversely, obviously) to news and video images of war, even when it's happening far away from me. I'd guess it's *not* because I'm more compassionate,
but because I've spent a lot of time in places that are "half way 'round the world," so they've acquired a vivid reality to me, as has the smallness of the world. But I can absolutely understand why these places could seem far away as Mars--
if you hadn't had the experience of getting on a plane and being in a "far away place" 12 hours later. The human mind naturally works at the scale of the village, not the globe.
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But he couldn't actually believe that Russia will play this role and Europe will nonetheless remain sovereign. Or that France would That would be delusional. He's not that nuts.
Sorry, typo. "But he couldn't actually believe that Russia will play this role and Europe will nonetheless remain sovereign. Or that France would [remain sovereign]. That would be delusional. He's not that nuts."
He's not, as a rule, nuts at all. He thinks coherently. I've been at a loss to understand the Putin bid, though. This interview is a very big deal.
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Claire Berlinski
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Why such a huge variance between North and South Dakota?
South Dakota Grounds for divorce:
No-Fault:
1) Irreconcilable differences.
Fault:
1) Adultery;
2) Extreme cruelty;
3) Willful desertion;
4) Willful neglect;
5) Habitual intemperance;
6) Conviction of felony;
North Dakota grounds for divorce"
No fault:
1. Irreconcilable differences
Fault:
1) adultery;
2, extreme cruelty
3. willful desertion,
4. willful neglect
5; abuse of alcohol or controlled substances
6. felony conviction.

So the laws can't be the reason, right? They're same.
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