Opinion: In today’s pages
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Ralph James Savarese answers all the insensitive questions about his decision to adopt an autistic child:
To this day, I can’t believe how callous people were; the strange anxiety that adopting a child with a disability provoked. And the anxiety just kept coming. ‘Healthy white infants must be tough to get,’ a neighbor commented. No paragons of racial sensitivity, we were nevertheless appalled by the idea that we’d do anything to avoid adopting, say, a black child or a Latino one....The last eight years have been devoted almost exclusively to my son’s welfare: literacy training, occupational therapy, relationship building, counseling for post-traumatic stress — the list goes on and on. But what strides he has made.
The World Policy Institute’s Frida Berrigan names the U.S. the world’s number one arms pusher. Columnist Niall Ferguson says global politics is a lot like Shakespearean tragedy, and we’re at the start of Act V. And columnist Gregory Rodriguez interviews ‘M. Butterfly’ playwright David Henry Hwang in what may be his ‘post-multicultural phase’.
The editorial board berates the county for failing to put its campaign finance data in a searchable online database. It urges the House of Representatives not to go easy on lobby reform, and tells the FCC it went too far in censuring XM shock jocks Opie and Anthony.
Letter writers aren’t too keen on the Senate immigration plan. In the words of Sierra Madre’s Rosemary Hagerott, ‘it’s 1986 again.’