An article on Janusz Korczak

In Orphans’ Twilight, Memories of a Doomed Utopia

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Wikipedia's article is enough to make you cry.

An article on the politics of non-human social animals

It's pretty interesting, even though it sounds a bit watered-down.

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Periodically, people call me judgmental.

And then other people rush to say I'm *not* judgmental.

Frankly, it doesn't bother me one way or another. Maybe I judge people unfairly. Maybe I don't. I figure that other people's views of how judgmental I am or am not say a lot more about them than they do about me anyway.

I'm saying this for a reason.

The reason?

_{I'm watching Wife Swap right now.}

This is my super secret guilty pleasure that nobody knows about at all. Even you. You don't know this! You'll forget as soon as you're done reading!

And the reason I like watching this show? Probably the same reason as a lot of folks - these people don't know me or what I think of them, and they've chosen to put themselves up for public discussion, so I think it's fine time for judge-a-rama over here.

Woohoo! Totally guilt free!

And here's my first judgment - the people who make this show? They're totally prejudiced against strict families. Ye gods. It's not even subtle.