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Salutations, those who believe that alcohol is the cause of and solution to many of life’s problems. As a warning, though, attempting to make that philosophy work too well might mean you end up as part of the warning to posterity about the dangers of drinking. Or as a side note in the paper because you attempted to revivie a dead opossum.
For those who realize that the dream of the post-X society still needs work to achieve, a conversational piece about how fighting for feminism against the Patriarchy does not necessarily excuse someone from race privilege, after Newsweek ran an article about women in the newsroom in their past - and all the people talking from that time are all white. To generate the equal society, one must be able to be nondiscriminatory on all unimportant issues. So it’s going to take a while, becuase we’re really good about categorizing and then generalizing and in the process, discriminating. It’s what we do. It takes retraining to know which parts are important and which ones aren’t.
But for those who seek to make change through the application of logic and facts, well, let's just say that facts aren't very persuasive, even if they are, well, factual. Not to mention that science’s compmlexities engender an inherent distrust, one increased by the one part of the scientific method people seem to agree with - trust after verifying. For an example of how this distrust of science plays out, Mr. Sowell steps in to fill the breach with as many pedestrian arguments as he can muster about climate change, only one of which has anything to do with the conclusions of the science. The rest are aimed at removing the credibility of climate change scientists.
Out in the world, unsurprisingly, new sanctions threatened for Iran from the United States and France if Iran does not come clean about all of its nuclear ambitions.
Additionally, the Stonewall organization in the United Kingdom has released a new information pamphlet detailing what homosexuals should do if they are the victims of a hate or bias crime.
In the realm of the United States, the opinion and viewpoint of the consumer has shifted away from money-driven success to sustainable careers and enjoyable lives. Which, I suspect, is what happens when you get drilled with an economic crash and a lack of a rebound at all. Interestingly enough, though, we’re still blaming someone else for the problem, so people looking to measure the SEP field will probably find it still registering some terraAdams.
The Central Intelligence Agency feels covert agents may be exposed to retaliation from al-Qarda because the ACLU showed Guantanamo Bay detainees pictures of thsoe interrogators in an attempt to get them identified. It seems rather Rube Goldbergian to me. Agent A, interrogates Detanee B... but then again, the CIA also has to worry about whether or not someone will actually prosecute them for their violations of the conventions of war. The ACLU, for their part, claims they were working within rules set by a military judge.
For those wondering how IED became WMD in terms of the Hutaree charges, the Explainer does Exactly What It Says On The Tin.
A private group of doctors has sued the government over the health care bill, claiming it is illegal for the government to coerce people to purchase private insurance coverage. Well, one could fix the problem by going single-payer, but considering the “socialism!” outrage over something that wasn’t even close, one only wonders what would happen if something that actually was socialist appears.
Last, but certainly not least, a homosexual student settled with his school district after suing and alleging the school did nothing to stop a relentless campaign of bullying against him because he was different. Actually, that could probably have read the same with just about any sort of “different” - and hopefuly with the same results.
In the realms of technology, and the ability to fool it - war paint may be helpful in evading current face-recognition technology, by confusing the computer about what is a face pixel and what is not. Elsewhere, delayed gratification and the ability to engage in it looks to have finally found a brain home - the left prefrontal cortex.
In opinions, Mr. Lind suggests that the United States' economic and military policies reflect that they still believe the Cold War is on, and such backward thinking is hurting their economy and everyone else’s as well.
On the matter of health care, The Heritage Foundation objects to the President using their research to advance his points, claiming that everything they support is totally different than what the President put in the bill. And also, he’s a radical leftist attempting to make the government in control of one-sixth of the economy, instead of truly opening up The Market (All Praise To Its Name) to real competition, which means “unregulated, unfettered, no government anywhere across all the states” to them. If only we heard the President’s agenda articulated truly, instead of disguised as being centrist in nature, we would intantly reject him and want to go back to the good old days. Excepting, of course, that bby most reasonable standards, the President is a centrist, perhaps even a center-rightist. Only in America does the center get painted as the fringe left. I suspect, however, that all sorts of places have columnists accusing their opponents of gloating instead of seeing sense and apologizing for the grievous wrong they inflicted on the people, and owning up to the tricks they pulled to get things passed when they knew full well it was going to be none of what they promised.
And then, of course, there is the requisite part of "liberals said just as much hateful stuff when the conservative was in power, and nobody in the media or elected officials called them on it, and see, see, we've got quotes, too!". Fair enough. A lot of people sling around stupid phrases when pissed off about something. The difference here, though, is that they didn’t have elected officials egging them on, and as far as I know, none of those incidences of foul language resulted in actual directed violence. (Or if they did, it took a lot more time than this incident has.) It is an apples and apples comparison, sure, but the apples on the liberal side are just sour - the apples on the conservative side have rotted.
Thankfully, we also have significantly more sane questions about how the penalties threatened will be enforced.
Elsewhere in opinions, Ms. Schlafly insists there should be a veteran of the armed services on the Supreme Court at all times so that cases involving the military aren't decided by a completely civilian court. Ms. Schlafly also takes graituitous political shots at the possible Supreme Court nominees from the President if/when Justice Stevens retires in addition to her main point about the needs of veterans. Actually, without those, her column would be reducable to a paragraph.
Mr. Kudlow is unimpressed by the latest possible mortgage-modification scheme, considering it to be a special break for the upper class people who have been irresponsible with their credit, and that we need more foreclosures and the like instead of less to correct the housing problem, because Market Forces Are Inhreently Superior, All Praise To Its Name, etc. Maybe I need to shorten this into some sort of symbol graphic that means that particular phrase. I’d probably save a few bytes every time.
Mr. Stephens reminds us that moralists who hate skin and sin are still more numerous in other regions of the world than people who hate other people forcefully expanding themselves onto their land, despite what common wisdom says, so anybody thinking problems will resolve if we just stopped fighting land wars in Asia and went after Israel to curb their practices is delusional. They will still hate us for our...culture?
And last out, on lighter fare, Margaret Atwood's experience with Twitter.
Last for tonight, try and figure out which type of person you are. And, if you like, check out the story about a story supposedly so scary that hearing it results in death.
For those who realize that the dream of the post-X society still needs work to achieve, a conversational piece about how fighting for feminism against the Patriarchy does not necessarily excuse someone from race privilege, after Newsweek ran an article about women in the newsroom in their past - and all the people talking from that time are all white. To generate the equal society, one must be able to be nondiscriminatory on all unimportant issues. So it’s going to take a while, becuase we’re really good about categorizing and then generalizing and in the process, discriminating. It’s what we do. It takes retraining to know which parts are important and which ones aren’t.
But for those who seek to make change through the application of logic and facts, well, let's just say that facts aren't very persuasive, even if they are, well, factual. Not to mention that science’s compmlexities engender an inherent distrust, one increased by the one part of the scientific method people seem to agree with - trust after verifying. For an example of how this distrust of science plays out, Mr. Sowell steps in to fill the breach with as many pedestrian arguments as he can muster about climate change, only one of which has anything to do with the conclusions of the science. The rest are aimed at removing the credibility of climate change scientists.
Out in the world, unsurprisingly, new sanctions threatened for Iran from the United States and France if Iran does not come clean about all of its nuclear ambitions.
Additionally, the Stonewall organization in the United Kingdom has released a new information pamphlet detailing what homosexuals should do if they are the victims of a hate or bias crime.
In the realm of the United States, the opinion and viewpoint of the consumer has shifted away from money-driven success to sustainable careers and enjoyable lives. Which, I suspect, is what happens when you get drilled with an economic crash and a lack of a rebound at all. Interestingly enough, though, we’re still blaming someone else for the problem, so people looking to measure the SEP field will probably find it still registering some terraAdams.
The Central Intelligence Agency feels covert agents may be exposed to retaliation from al-Qarda because the ACLU showed Guantanamo Bay detainees pictures of thsoe interrogators in an attempt to get them identified. It seems rather Rube Goldbergian to me. Agent A, interrogates Detanee B... but then again, the CIA also has to worry about whether or not someone will actually prosecute them for their violations of the conventions of war. The ACLU, for their part, claims they were working within rules set by a military judge.
For those wondering how IED became WMD in terms of the Hutaree charges, the Explainer does Exactly What It Says On The Tin.
A private group of doctors has sued the government over the health care bill, claiming it is illegal for the government to coerce people to purchase private insurance coverage. Well, one could fix the problem by going single-payer, but considering the “socialism!” outrage over something that wasn’t even close, one only wonders what would happen if something that actually was socialist appears.
Last, but certainly not least, a homosexual student settled with his school district after suing and alleging the school did nothing to stop a relentless campaign of bullying against him because he was different. Actually, that could probably have read the same with just about any sort of “different” - and hopefuly with the same results.
In the realms of technology, and the ability to fool it - war paint may be helpful in evading current face-recognition technology, by confusing the computer about what is a face pixel and what is not. Elsewhere, delayed gratification and the ability to engage in it looks to have finally found a brain home - the left prefrontal cortex.
In opinions, Mr. Lind suggests that the United States' economic and military policies reflect that they still believe the Cold War is on, and such backward thinking is hurting their economy and everyone else’s as well.
On the matter of health care, The Heritage Foundation objects to the President using their research to advance his points, claiming that everything they support is totally different than what the President put in the bill. And also, he’s a radical leftist attempting to make the government in control of one-sixth of the economy, instead of truly opening up The Market (All Praise To Its Name) to real competition, which means “unregulated, unfettered, no government anywhere across all the states” to them. If only we heard the President’s agenda articulated truly, instead of disguised as being centrist in nature, we would intantly reject him and want to go back to the good old days. Excepting, of course, that bby most reasonable standards, the President is a centrist, perhaps even a center-rightist. Only in America does the center get painted as the fringe left. I suspect, however, that all sorts of places have columnists accusing their opponents of gloating instead of seeing sense and apologizing for the grievous wrong they inflicted on the people, and owning up to the tricks they pulled to get things passed when they knew full well it was going to be none of what they promised.
And then, of course, there is the requisite part of "liberals said just as much hateful stuff when the conservative was in power, and nobody in the media or elected officials called them on it, and see, see, we've got quotes, too!". Fair enough. A lot of people sling around stupid phrases when pissed off about something. The difference here, though, is that they didn’t have elected officials egging them on, and as far as I know, none of those incidences of foul language resulted in actual directed violence. (Or if they did, it took a lot more time than this incident has.) It is an apples and apples comparison, sure, but the apples on the liberal side are just sour - the apples on the conservative side have rotted.
Thankfully, we also have significantly more sane questions about how the penalties threatened will be enforced.
Elsewhere in opinions, Ms. Schlafly insists there should be a veteran of the armed services on the Supreme Court at all times so that cases involving the military aren't decided by a completely civilian court. Ms. Schlafly also takes graituitous political shots at the possible Supreme Court nominees from the President if/when Justice Stevens retires in addition to her main point about the needs of veterans. Actually, without those, her column would be reducable to a paragraph.
Mr. Kudlow is unimpressed by the latest possible mortgage-modification scheme, considering it to be a special break for the upper class people who have been irresponsible with their credit, and that we need more foreclosures and the like instead of less to correct the housing problem, because Market Forces Are Inhreently Superior, All Praise To Its Name, etc. Maybe I need to shorten this into some sort of symbol graphic that means that particular phrase. I’d probably save a few bytes every time.
Mr. Stephens reminds us that moralists who hate skin and sin are still more numerous in other regions of the world than people who hate other people forcefully expanding themselves onto their land, despite what common wisdom says, so anybody thinking problems will resolve if we just stopped fighting land wars in Asia and went after Israel to curb their practices is delusional. They will still hate us for our...culture?
And last out, on lighter fare, Margaret Atwood's experience with Twitter.
Last for tonight, try and figure out which type of person you are. And, if you like, check out the story about a story supposedly so scary that hearing it results in death.
