Category: Ignorance & Chutzpah
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(Alt. title: your eco-rant for the week) I wonder, only half-facetiously, whether Verlyn Klinkenborg is one of those “US Americans” who don’t have maps, and don’t know there’s almost a whole planet outside it. Here he is from a few years ago, on mining in Wyoming: The mining laws, which assume that mining is the…
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Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is the biggest piece of garbage I'm proud to say I've never read. Well, apparently they're making it into a movie. Or a miniseries, I'm not sure. But definitely starring Charlize Theron, or else some other beautiful blonde actress who can't act. Anyway, in advance, the Onion's A.V. Club has a…
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Over at Faculty Lounge, Calvin Massey somehow manages to conclude (1) that Gates acted stupidly and (2) that the police officer did not act stupidly. How? By twisting the facts — beyond even those stated in the official police report. A pedestrian out for a walk notices two men wearing backpacks jimmying open the front…
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What is the problem with Israeli made commercials? A few months ago we featured this ridiculously tasteless spectacle and now a friend points me to another ad from Israel whose makers seem equally oblivious to the implications of the imagery they present. So, some Israeli soldiers are gleefully playing a game of soccer with invisible Palestinians on the other side of the "wall." What does that signify? That the wall has…
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I happened to catch parts of Tuesday's Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor. The most fascinating exchange of the day took place when Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) questioned the judge. Sessions, a southern right winger, whose own nomination to federal judgeship was blocked in 1986 partially because of his attitude towards racial issues,interrogated Sotomayor about her opinions on race…
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I don't doubt that some of the "Judge Sotomayor just isn't smart enough to be a justice" criticism is racially tinged. It's probably sexist, too. But I'm not writing to defend Sonia Sotomayor — I'm writing to defend Clarence Thomas (who I am distinctly not a fan of). Because, of course, on the left —…
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No, this is not a trip down the memory lane to West Side Story but an instance of another irate Republican putting his foot in the mouth regarding Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's pick for the US Supreme Court. Mike Huckabee, one of the GOP presidential contenders of 2008, railed that Maria Sotomayor, coming from the "far left" would turn the Supreme…
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The loudest support for the unjust Iraq war came from right wing draft dodgers and armchair warriors. Now that Bush-Cheney's torture memos are under scrutiny, some supporters of illegal methods of interrogation are declaring that the decision to define the nature and the morality of torture should be left to non-combatant bureaucrats and not those who have faced the ordeal themselves. Boggles the rational mind but here is a conversation…
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Can't wait to see this happen. But given the physical and moral cowardice of right wing blowhards, it probably won't.
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Texas governor Rick "Good Hair" Perry's latest political stunt.
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