Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have been enjoying the take down of Trent Lott this week. In particular, the Washington Post and a weblogger, Eschaton have done an excellent job of roasting this man’s chestnuts over an open fire. What really caught my focus about this whole thing was Trent Lott’s statement, and his talk about a color-blind […]
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Learned terrorism
Michael sent me a link to an editorial that talks about Learned Helplessness and its association with the current ‘war on terror’. The author. Kriselda Jarnsaxa, writes: The experience of the last 15 months here in America seems to be producing a nation suffering from learned helplessness. Fear is induced through the constant, but oh-so-vague, warnings emanating from […]
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We didn’t start the fire
I don’t normally link to these types of things, but I thought this Flash animation of We Didn’t Start the Fire was extremely well done. I like Billy Joel, and have always liked this song. Hearing it now, though, I find myself nostalgic for the days when all we were worried about was the Soviet Union. Whatever […]
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Clean sweep cleans forests
The first environmental impact from November’s Clean Sweep is the Bush Administration’s proposal to: … give managers of the nation’s 155 national forests greater leeway to approve logging and commercial activities with less examination of potential environmental damages. Regional managers are easily influenced by timber interests, who tend to have as much interest in the good of […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Imagine my delight when I woke up this morning and found the following comment attached to one of my old postings, Blast them all and let God sort them out.: I don’t expect Arabs to be humiliated. . .I expect them to be dead, deader than dead. God doesn’t need to […]