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The mountains will be in labour; an absurd mouse will be born. -- Horace So many meetings of the war council! So much intense deliberation over so many months! So many knowledgeable experts training their finely honed minds on the problem of Afghanistan and Pakistan! So many challenges to ...
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Part I: Bad-Faith Arguments and Highly Questionable Actors I'll be addressing additional issues related to the discussion in Part I , as well as analyzing one very significant problem raised by the global warming debate, a problem that comes up in many different contexts. Before getting to all ...
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Global Warming
As mentioned toward the conclusion of the previous post , I feel completely lousy these days. I'm very grateful for the donations that have come in -- thank you, kind people! -- but I don't yet have any kind of financial cushion for the coming month, let alone any of the money needed for even ...
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This morning, I looked over the articles I've published between mid-October and today. I will be immodest and say that the output is...not bad. It includes nine or ten essays that I would call "major," by which I mean they deal with issues that won't be out of date in a week or a month, but will ...
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I've followed all the debatifying about the decision to prosecute five (ALLEGED!) 9/11 co-conspirators in federal court with weary, muffled resignation. Yes, I know "debatifying" isn't, like, a real word. Since almost everyone else is making shit up, I don't see any reason why I shouldn't. Thank ...
World
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The time is long past due for certain
writers to go into temporary retirement at a minimum,...
to engage in the process of rigorous self-assessment and of regaining perspective, and to find a new approach for commentary on current events. Perhaps ...
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Palin Derangement Syndrome: When It's Time for a Long, ...
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Dissecting Leftism
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The mother said, "Go ahead and torture my ten-year-old daughter!" And the police officer did. I offer the following words of caution for those who may be all too eager to congratulate themselves for their outrage in reaction to this incident. Yes, this is profoundly sickening and disgusting. ...
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Don Young
I've been thinking further about my post from last evening , and reflecting on one particular aspect of that entry: the refusal to take responsibility for one's actions, and a person's demand that others solve the problems that he has created. You see this mechanism in the comment at Corrente ...
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powerofnarrative.blogspot.com - 11 days ago
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A comment at Corrente caused me to laugh
heartily (it wasn't the first such comment there in...
recent days), in large part because it contains a rather significant element of truth (about a lot of men generally, that is, not necessarily about a ...
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Following Behind with the Bucket
Several days ago, I wrote about an especially despicable example of the tragic and destructive process of demonization of "the other." As is true of all peoples throughout history, we prefer to think of ourselves as having significantly advanced and as being more self-aware, of being more ...
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Foreign Policy
From a review of Jackson Lears's Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 : The book’s title — a play on D. W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” — suggests two of Lears’s greatest revisionist concerns: the lasting influence of Civil War violence and “the rising ...
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In a recent post about the "health care reform" horror show, I offered this observation about almost all national politicians : With very few exceptions, and the exceptions are so few in number that they cannot alter the general direction of events, these are corrupt individuals operating in a ...
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Here . I refuse to publish the two words of that article's title on this blog. I provide the link so that those of you still capable of minimally rational, coherent and decent thought can see the depths to which many people eagerly descend. I will observe that if one chooses to engage in this ...
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powerofnarrative.blogspot.com - 20 days ago
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The lies begin with the name itself. The
bill is titled: Affordable Health Care for America Act...
. In fact, the bill's primary purpose has absolutely to do with providing "affordable health care." The purpose is to extract as much money as possible ...
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The Fuck You Act
powerofnarrative.blogspot.com - 21 days ago
Tribalism and the Destructive Politics of Demonization (I): The Largely Unrecognized Possibility ...
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I. Introductory Remarks My general title indicates that
this group of essays easily could appear in my...
ongoing Tribalism series . While the subject of these essays might argue for including them there, my focus in the Tribalism essays is on the ...
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Tribalism and the Destructive Politics of Demonization ...
Via Corrente , I was directed to this perceptive and highly interesting account of a meeting between a group of economics bloggers and "senior Treasury officials." A list of the invited bloggers can be found here . From the latter post, we learn what can and cannot be discussed about this ...
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Hey, relax. It's not going to be the end of the world -- but in time it may be, as the headline says, the end of the internet as you know it. Cory Doctorow : The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to ...
White House
powerofnarrative.blogspot.com - 26 days ago
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WIth regard to the "health care reform" debate,
there is a single issue that must always be...
kept in the forefront of one's mind. I recently described that issue as follows : I point you again to Chris Floyd's wonderfully brief and entirely accurate ...
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The "Triumph" of the Progressives
In just a moment, I'll get to the typically repellent utterance that has won for Mr. Joseph Biden the honorific in my title. (That particular formulation is affectionately taken from Tootsie , certainly among the finest hours Dustin Hoffman has spent on screen, at least when he was playing ...
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Joe Biden
I. Kill That Woman! -- Again, Still, Always "Kill that woman!," is the order given by Herod to his soldiers, and the last line of Oscar Wilde's play, Salome. I took that line as the title of this essay . After first excerpting the final scene of Wilde's work, I wrote: You need to understand ...
