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Rick Santorum, Senator from Pennsylvania, has upped the ante in his criticism of Boston. No longer just blaming Harvard and MIT for the Catholic pedophilia scandals, it turns out that the problem is...
"alternative sexual freedom."

From the Boston Globe today,

"Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, refused yesterday to back off on his earlier statements connecting Boston's ''liberalism" with the Roman Catholic Church pedophile scandal, saying that the city's ''sexual license" and ''sexual freedom" nurtured an environment where sexual abuse would occur.

''The basic liberal attitude in that area . . . has an impact on people's behavior," Santorum said in an interview yesterday at the Capitol.

''If you have a world view that I'm describing [about Boston] . . . that affirms alternative views of sexuality, that can lead to a lot of people taking it the wrong way," Santorum said.'

I'm not sure you can _get_ more offensive than claiming that gay or poly lifestyles lead to child abuse. I'm not sure I want to know, if you can. Please, Pennsylvania folk, vote this guy back into the, oh, I don't know, early 19th century or something. Preferably in Russia. In winter.

With 17 days left to go on the final draft, here are the stats of the dissertation as it stands:

Text: 271 pages.
Bibliography: 13 pages, 206 entries of secondary sources. (Will increase.)
Images: Much of the next two weeks, I think there's about 35 of them.
Footnotes: 570. (Just about two per page.)
Words: 73, 397
K Size: 1 MB.

Yes, in fact, it will clearly be longer than my senior essay.
It appears to be a bit short for dissertations, but I hope that will be okay.