Plus, porn is ubiquitous now and to turn a blind eye to it, or allow it to be discussed only behind closed doors, or just according to approved standards of discourse does everyone, especially our students, a disservice.
By Andy Borowitz October 17, 2012 For years, historians have held up the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 as the gold standard of political discourse.
Sure, it all makes for good bumper stickers... but is this really the kind of standard of political discourse that we want our presidential candidates set for the rest of the nation?
He adds: "We can all raise the standards of political discourse".
This might not be good for the standards of public discourse, but it's good for his ego – and it distracts from his ignorance.
And Chinese science has taken a step towards the standards of civilised discourse that Westerners like to think prevail in their own countries.
Although some conservatives criticized him for failing to attack President Bill Clinton on moral issues that night, Mr. Kemp and his opponent, Vice President Al Gore, raised the standards of political discourse by engaging in one of the most substantive and civil national debates in our history.
At pains to preserve the standards of civil discourse, he repeatedly reassures her of his respect, while she turns her responses into digs at him and CNN.
At that stage, nationalism and national communism became standards of official discourse, and intellectuals such as Edgar Papu were allowed to reinterpret Romanian culture on the basis of nationalist tenets: Papu's controversial theory, known as "Protochronism", claimed that Romanians as a group were at the source of any innovative movement in world culture.
For instance, once a scrambled gene has evolved, the capacity for unscrambling is no longer a side effect but— by the normal standards of biological discourse— a "function", conserved by negative selection against mutations that would compromise it.
