  From urlLink Lew Rockwell : urlLink The Myth of Animal Rights - Tibor R. Machan explains to PETA. Saying that animals don't have rights doesn't mean approving of animal torture or ignoring their pain. "My point was, in essence, that rights are just not the sort of things animals other than people could have.
Could animals have guilt, be blamed, feel regret and remorse, or apologize or anything on that order? No, and why so, that was the gist of my thesis: they are not moral agents like us, not even the great apes. " urlLink G-Strings and Baggy Pants - Linda Schrock Taylor on the public schools' youth culture. What's particularly amusing is what she says about the baggy pants that seem so popular with youth today, especially those who like rap and hip-hop. "I suspect that if more of our teen boys were told the original meaning behind the baggy pants, the fad would end soon enough.
At a teacher in-service on gangs, a specialist who works with such groups informed us that the fad came straight out of the prisons. The speaker explained that in prison those baggy pants are the trademark of a prison prostitute and thus advertise availability. I find it so sad that our boys are unknowingly lured into dressing in such ways, and that those boys lack parents with the wisdom, and the stamina, to say, "Absolutely NOT! "" 
