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Boortz on Ad Hominems

Monday, 8 February 2010
Thought I know it's not good for my blood pressure, I continue to listen to right-wing talk show host Neal Boortz, as part of my campaign of monitoring what the other side thinks.Recently, he talked about a tasteless comment made by Keith Olberma

Mark Sanford: A Promise Not Made

Saturday, 6 February 2010
Yesterday,Jenny Sanford's tell-all memoir was published.  Sanford is the soon-to-be former wife of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who was recently outed as having gone AWOL from his post to visit his Argentinian mistress.In the book s

Thoughts on the John Edwards Fiasco

Sunday, 31 January 2010
When I first heard of the John Edwards affair, my first instinct as a libertine was to yawn and tell people that his marriage was none of their business and that he wasn't running for the office of upholding monogamy.But as the months have passed

Odd Associations

Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Sometimes I make the oddest associations between two completely unrelated phenomena.  What follows below is one such example.I use Firefox as my browser, combined with slow-ass dialup.  Frequently, after I've clicked on a page, the task
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Conservatives and "Big Government"

Thursday, 21 January 2010
I often hear conservatives banging on about the evils of big government; that they believe a small government is a better government, blah, blah, blah.  Most recently, many conservatives have stated that they're against health care reform be

Polyandry: The Obvious Solution to China's Sex-Ratio Imbalance

Monday, 18 January 2010
In a recent report from Chinese state media, it was announced that 24 million "surplus" Chinese men of marriageable age will likely have trouble finding wives by 2020.   The study specifically blamed sex-specific abortion as a major cu

Sarah Palin: Part of the Dumbing Down of America

Thursday, 14 January 2010
I think the rise of Sarah Palin is one of the manifestations of the dumbing down of America.  I didn't think it was possible to find a politician on the national stage less intelligent than George Bush.  But we have.  It used to be

Candidate For 2011 Banned Words List

Saturday, 9 January 2010
I was listening to the radio today and an advertisement came on that used the phrase "we've got your back" several times. This phrase means "we're behind you", "we support you", "we stand behind you."&n
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An Observation

Monday, 4 January 2010
While out driving today, I tuned into yet another conservative talk radio show (there aren't any other kind in my listening area, unfortunately).   The host was ranting and raving about Janet Napolitano, whom he sneeringly called &

Banned Words For 2010

Friday, 1 January 2010
Lake Superior State University has released its annual list of "banished words"; words they consider trite, overused, annoying, or a combination of all three.  Following below is the list, with my comments in italics:SHOVEL-READY "
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