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Sunday, March 02, 2008

POLITICAL ENTHUSIASM AS RELIGION?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL BAER IN THE GUARDIAN Daniel Baer, "The Church of Obama" is just a dumb article. Enthusiasm o...

RACISM IN AN UGLY VIDEO FROM SOUTH AFRICA?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL This is a terrible situation. No one can accept the acts that were on the video. B...

FURTHER TO PSYCHOLOGY'S SELF-SERVING CRAP ABOUT INNER HEROES

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY PHIL SHINER IN THE GUARDIAN Oh please, Philip Zimbardo's piece was self-serving rubbish, reflecting no ge...
Friday, February 29, 2008

INNER HEROES AND PSYCHOLOGY'S INTELLECTUAL CRAP

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY PHILIP ZIMBARDO IN THE GUARDIAN Philip Zimbardo invites us to dine and offers a plate of steaming intellectua...

MUSHARRAF AND TERRORISTS IN PAKISTAN AND BUSH-SPEAK

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY ANITA INDER SINGH IN THE GUARDIAN Did Ms Singh write this under a grant from the Pentagon? Pakistan is the ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

REFLECTION ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES Buckley was an articulate and rather disingenuous man, one who truly was a bi...

THE REAL IMPORTANCE OF PEOPLE ABROAD KEEPING UP WITH AMERICAN POLITICS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKLESTEIN IN THE TIMES The importance of U.S. politics to Britain and others is not for techniques o...

ANTI-DEPRESSANT STUDY AND A COLUMN ADVOCATING PEOPLE REFUSING TO USE THEM

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN Both the study and this writer miss something very important. Depression comes in many varied fo...

ON ISRAEL'S KILLING SIX MORE "MILITANTS"

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL I love these reports about Israel killing "militants." This one, about...

BRITISH WRITER MARTIN AMIS AND SUPPORTING BOMBERS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MICHAEL WHITE IN THE GUARDIAN Amis is a boring ass, but with this he goes even further down in my considerati...

ARCHITECT LIBESKIND ANNOUNCES HE WON'T WORK FOR TYRANT REGIME LIKE CHINA

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TIMES Well, I've always questioned Daniel Libeskind's work, brutal and jagged, monumental and impractica...

LAURA BUSH SAYS SHE AND GEORGE TAKE DEMOCRATIC CRITICISM WITH A GRAIN OF SALT

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE Well, I don't think anyone expects Laura and George to take anything serious seriousl...

FROM THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH: ISRAEL CALLS IRAN "TICKING BOMB"

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE Iran has attacked no one in the modern era, although it has been attacked brutally, much ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

MUSLIM VEILS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES Why are you asking the general public a question of this personal and religious nature? Do...

SOVIET SPY KOVAL AND THE ATOMIC BOMB

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES It is fascinating to learn of yet another important Soviet spy, Koval, against American in...

VIRGINIA CAMPUS MURDER AND AMERICAN VIOLENCE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES It does seem to me that all the "our thoughts go out" and "our prayers are ...

SCRIPTURE AND SCIENCE COMPATIBLE?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES I sincerely doubt it, unless there already was an underlying conflict concerning the truth...

FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANS AND POLITICS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES The Pilgrims were not escaping religious persecution. That is a myth. The various Puritan ...

PAKISTAN AND MUSHARRAF AND BUSH'S REAL INTENTIONS IN CRITICIZING HIM

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES Well, anything which causes grief to the gang of criminals in the White House must have so...

LIFE OF THE MIND - WOLFOWITZ AND THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES The American Enterprise Institute? Oh please, this outfit is a propaganda mill posing as a...

INTERNET EDUCATION

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES Yes, I'm sure they can, so long as there are good, responsive people at the other end ...

HIP HOP, FOUL SPEECH, AND HATE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES This really is a drink-or-the-drinker argument. It can't be decided. What we can say i...

THOUGHTS ON GERALD FORD'S DEATH

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES Ford enjoyed a brief moment of genuine popularity as the world breathed a sigh of relief o...

THOUGHTS ON CASTRO RETIRING

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES I don't defend dictators, but there are qualities about Castro every open-minded perso...

BUSH SPEECH ON WITHDRAWAL

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES What an utterly dishonest speech, truly bordering on delusion. Note Bush’s absurd words ab...

AMERICAN COLLEGES AND EDUCATION

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES The answer is simple: behave like colleges and universities in the first place. Higher edu...

AMERICAN IGNORANCE OF OTHER LANDS - EXPLANATIONS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES Because Americans have a large and complex society, they take less interest in others. But...

DE-SENSITIZED TO VIOLENCE AND THE KILLER AT NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO COLUMN IN THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR Desensitized to violence? Good Lord, look at the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. A million...

ISRAEL AND THE FALSE NOTION OF PALESTINIANS USING NON-VIOLENT RESISTANCE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JONATHON FREEDLAND IN THE GUARDIAN I don't know whether Mr Freedland is naive or dishonest. He offers up ...

VISION AND BRITAIN'S PRIME MINISTER BROWN

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JONATHON FREEDLAND IN THE GUARDIAN Oh please, Jonathon Freedland, if you knew how tiresome it is to go on abo...

ESSAY WRITING AND UNIVERSITIES

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JOHN MULLAN IN THE GUARDIAN John Mullan makes a very weak argument here, trying to bolster it by dropping the...

SCIENCE AND RELIGION

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN Science indeed has been a remarkable success at explaining our world. The progress in the last 5...

THE UNIVERSE'S MEANING

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN Explain the Cosmos? True meaning? The universe just is. Science, by the way, gave up the 19th ce...

BHUTTO AND MUSHARRAF AND ELECTIONS NOW

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN It is a simple fact that Bhutto was following, at least to a considerable extent, an "Ameri...

CHERIE BLAIR AND RETIREMENT

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY YVONNE ROBERTS IN THE GUARDIAN Cherie Blair is a national embarrassment. Great gaping yawns in public, photog...

J.S. MILL AND LIBERTY AND THE NEW WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY ROY HATTERSLEY IN THE GUARDIAN I might not agree with all Roy Hattersley concludes from his general propositi...

LITVENENKO, PUTIN, AND THE USE OF ASSASSINATION BY AMERICA AND ISRAEL

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN It is a platitude to say that we must take such murders seriously. In fact, we don't. If Lit...

ISRAEL AND HIZBOLLAH

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JONATHON FREEDLAND IN THE GUARDIAN Jonathon Freedland is right, although I think some of his points need re-w...

CHANGING JEWISH OPINION ON ISRAEL

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN It's about time. Jews have always been leaders in political and social criticism. They'v...

IRAN, ISRAEL, AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN Talk about the destruction of Israel is absolutely paranoid fantasy nonsense. For years Israel c...

IS BUSH THE WORST PRESIDENT?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN Does it matter whether he is THE worst? It seems to me this kind of thing only matters to people...
Monday, February 25, 2008

GAZA TROUBLES

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JONATHON SPYER IN THE GUARDIAN And who created the situation in Gaza? Good God, Israel has reduced 1.4 millio...

ISRAEL AND HAMAS SHOULD TALK

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MOUSA MARZOOK IN THE GUARDIAN There is no more realistic opportunity for peace than Israel's talking to H...

HAMAS AND ISRAEL NEGOTIATING

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY ZVI HEIFETZ IN THE GUARDIAN What an utterly disingenuous piece of writing Mr Heifetz offers. "Israel has...

GENOCIDE AND DARFUR

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN Mr. Reynolds truly doesn't understand what he's talking about. Few words are more abused...

HIROSHIMA

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY OLIVER KAMM IN THE GUARDIAN Mr Kamm makes a thoughtless and dangerous argument. You might say that the atomic...

GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AND THE U.S.

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN MICHAEL BOYLE IN THE GUARDIAN Oh please, global leadership and the United States make an oxymoron expression. Th...

HIROSHIMA AND IRAN - FURTHER CONSIDERATION

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POSTED FURTHER RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY EDALAT AND SHAHABI IN THE GUARDIAN Auximinies... Again a poster too timid to use a name. But I suppos...

HIROSHIMA AND IRAN

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY EDALAT AND SHAHABI IN THE GUARDIAN The savage and truly ignorant comments are piling up on this topic. It is ...

ETHICAL FOREIGN POLICY?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JEREMY BRADSHAW IN THE GUARDIAN I have a difficult time thinking of a solid example of foreign policy based o...

DIVORCE, DAVID CAMERON AND INCENTIVES IN BRITAIN

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY SONIA SODHA IN THE GUARDIAN David Cameron, indeed, does not understand what drives the changes in marriage, o...

DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN Does any sensible person really believe America understands what democracy is? Hugo Chavez was e...

ATHEISM AND THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY AND THE AGE OF SCIENCE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY NIGEL WILLMOTT IN THE GUARDIAN The analogy is not uninteresting, but in the final analysis, it fails. What we...

DARFUR AND THE SPECTACLE OF SPIELBERG AND MIA FARROW

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN Of course, Spielberg is ridiculous, just like his movies. As for Mia Farrow, she is a pathetic f...

BLACK CRIME IN BRITAIN

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY ANGELA LAWRENCE IN THE GUARDIAN Regarding the incarceration rates cited above, everywhere there are detailed ...

DAWKINS AND ATHEISM AND THE REAL AGE OF SCIENCE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A CULUMN BY GORDON LYNCH IN THE GUARDIAN Gordon Lynch's piece is vapid puff. You can call any passionate advocate of ...