Category: Ignorance & Chutzpah
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Here is a series of links to stories in the news recently. Americans are afraid of people who "look" like Muslims and even more afraid of "looking" like a Muslim. Obama avoids visiting Sikh Temple in India for fear of looking like a Muslim. Juan Williams gets fired by NPR for saying, "people in Muslim garb on airplanes make him…
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Really, really far, it seems.
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Another one of Stanley Fish's superior sounding fatuous essays appeared in the NYT's Opinionator blog. It is Law & Order he is criticizing this time. And why? For having a "law and order" agenda and for being unkind to the rich and the exceptional. Heck, the characters that Jack McCoy and his band of justice seekers go after…
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Some relief from the ‘Hollow and vapid charade‘ that Kagan once considered the proceeds of a Supreme Court justice confirmation hearing, I presume.
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I hope the FDA stops this drug approval process in its tracks. The birth control pill was something women needed. This one they don't. Making up a malady where one does not exist, is the game the pharmaceutical companies like to play. But will the FDA go along? Will women? Ever since Viagra met blockbuster success in 1998, the…
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President Obama's "BP Speech"from the Oval Office on Tuesday night disappointed on several levels. To put it mildly, Obama spoke without focus, conviction or determination. In a vapid speech full of generalities about making BP pay, changes in our energy habits and the strength of Americans to deal with adversities, we heard very little that was new. We…
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Bad Bro vis a vis Big Bro : the perils of the Intertube Age. (Note: the first link is to a humorous situation that I found myself in. I had thoughts about contacting my cell phone carrier to ask about number blocks and such, a genuflection of sorts at the altar of Big Bro, but…
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The oil spill caused by oil giant British Petroleum off Lousiana's gulf coast killed eleven people and it is on its way to becoming the worst ecological diaster in US history. The oil company has been inept at containing the damage so far. Despite the severe damage to its reputation and the focus on its incompetence, BP tried to get legal waivers meant to immunize the company from future…
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Could it be that mullahs and other fundamentalist religious leaders know more about meteorology and geology than we suspect? Earlier this year Pat Robertson blamed the Haitian temblor on voodoo and a pact with the devil. An Iranian mullah recently blamed scantily dressed women for earthquakes. A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously…
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I recently explained why the overheated rhetoric of the Tea Party wing of American politics is making me increasingly uncomfortable. Right wing protestations that it is just vigorous but legitimate political disagreement is being questioned by many others, including one ex-president who was in office during the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Here is a sampling of some of the cautionary voices: …
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