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Myanmar: This Is What Courage Really Looks Like
Protester in Myanmar (from here) I don’t have much to add about the situation in Myanmar; maha has some good posts about it, along with AmericaBlog. But the above picture is a study in contrasts. The...
View ArticleMaha Speaks (About Burma)…
…and you listen. maha writes why the U.S. won’t do anything to aid the saffron revolution in Burma (italics mine): …the West flaps about, issuing statements and maybe sending an envoy or two. Please...
View ArticleIt’s Not Called Management, It’s Called Lying
Welcome to the world of Potemkin press conferences. FEMA held a press conference…with itself (italics mine): Reporters were given only 15 minutes’ notice of the briefing, making it unlikely many could...
View ArticleWhat David Horowitz’s Academic Freedom Might Look Like
Rightwing nut David Horowitz just finished celebrating Islamofascist Awareness Week. One of the goals of Horowitz’s exercise is to intimidate faculty and students into political correctness*. A while...
View ArticleAbortion, Stem Cells, In Vitro Fertilization, and Tribalism
Michael Kinsley sums up the ethical inconsistency of the Blastocyst Liberationists: Third, although the political dilemma that stem cells pose for politicians is real enough, the moral dilemma is not...
View ArticleIf You Live in Chicago, Help Driftglass Take on Michael Savage
Driftglass is organizing a letter writing campaign to the advertisers on Chicago’s hate radio station WIND. If you live in the area, help him out. Here’s why: Remember, if you choose to contact any or...
View ArticleThree New Deals: The Book Jonah Goldberg Would Have Written…
…if he weren’t a fucking moron. One of the books that has gone missing in all of the criticisms of Jonah Goldberg’s ridiculous Democrat-bashing screed Liberal Fascism is Wolfgang’s Schivelbusch’s Three...
View ArticleNo, Maha, It Isn’t Weird at All
In a very good post about elitism and Republicans, Maha asks: John McCain’s recent mangling of Barack Obama’s famous “bitter” remark is also illustrative: “We’re going to go to the small towns in...
View Article“There. Are. Four. Lights”: How Torture Became Mainstream
In his weekend roundup, driftglass reminds us that there was a time when our mainstream pop culture villified torture and praised those who attempted to resist it: And then Fox TV’s Torture Porn Show,...
View ArticleA Question for Conservatives: How Many ‘Lone Wolves’ Does It Take to Make a...
Whenever some right-wing associated nut shoots someone, we always hear it described as the actions of a ‘lone wolf.’ Well, if that’s the case then them wolves have formed themselves a pack: – July...
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