Brain Fertilizer

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Most of the Post in Blockquotes:

[From a local newspaper's] letters to the editor:
On Mother's Day, when I saw the photo of the young woman soldier with the leash around the neck of the naked Iraqi prisoner, I thought that this was not something she learned at her mother's knee but was part of her indoctrination into the military, where the enemy is dehumanized.

Ah yes, glorious womanhood. One of the advantages of practicing family medicine is that you get a front row seat in the circus of life, and I can assure you that it is far more common for bad behaviors to be learned at a mother's knee than elsewhere.

...and good behaviors, too. I'm not anti-Mom or anything. But it is time we started exposing the inaccuracy our society's belief in the perfectness of mothers.