Month: August 2010
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My Political Source
I like to get my politics from engineers. Engineers are schooled in: “What can possibly go wrong? In truth just about everything.” While the general electorate dreams of: “Laws? We just pass them and the words (and government guns) will give us what we are dreaming of.” You can’t bust that kind of thinking with…
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the bigoted nature of identitarianism makes me want to find a “tribe”
What is bigotry? Let’s start with a common definition of bigot. a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance. We typically think of bigotry as prejudice which…
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Who gets to elect our “cultural” representatives?
Sometimes I don’t know what to do with what I guess should be called “news.” Like this um “book” um “review” that was linked on Drudge. Something about Angelina Jolie putting urine in a Mountain Dew bottle intended for her dad Jon Voight’s girlfriend, and how her mom helped her lose her virginity at age…