AlterNet: Movie Mix: The Penguin Wars

AlterNet: Movie Mix: The Penguin Wars: "So we have sex with up to 20 partners in a lifetime, tolerance toward gay couplings, and males who take 'Go ahead and work late, honey, I'll watch the kids' to a whole a new level. Again, we'd bet these aren't the family values the Christian Right had in mind. But paid paternity leave? We'll take it."

Not a particularly extraordinary piece of writing, but Sheerni Avni summarizes well the absurdness of the right's claim on emperor penguins as well as the irritation I feel regarding the co-optation.