“The more you talk about a person as a social construction, or as a confluence of forces, or as being fragmented or marginalized, what you do is you open up a whole new world of excuses. And when Sartre talks about responsibility, he’s not talking about something abstract. He’s not talking about the [...]
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If you’re wondering why the Bush Administration is so incredibly screwed up, it appears that a great deal of the blame can be laid at the feet of Dick Cheney and his commando tactics within his own administration. An example:
Cheney, says [Larry Wilkerson, formerly a top aide to Secretary of State Colin Powell], “set [...]
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ABC News:
ABC News
April 26, 2006
Wounded Soldiers Fight Off Bill Collectors at Home
Hundreds of soldiers wounded in battle in Iraq have found themselves fighting off bill collectors on the home front, according to a report to be released tomorrow. The draft report by the Government Accountability Office, which ABC News obtained, said that hundreds of wounded [...]
Hey … VD is for everybody!
(Courtesy of Neil Gaiman.)
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One of the children’s hymns that many, many Christian congregations teach their children goes like this:
Jesus loves
the little children
all the children
of the world …
Of course, we very rarely actually think about what our children are singing.
This 15-year-old girl did.
Watch that link. And think that it really does answer the question of where the Jesus [...]
Strike one up for a scarily prescient Deep Space Nine episode, as described by chi_third_rail:
Keiko, the wife of the station’s chief Engineer (both human characters carried over from The Next Generation series), is teaching in the small school she started on the station, and is explaining the theories behind the wormhole. A Bajoran religious leader, [...]
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If you ever want to request that Apple carry a particular artist, song, or soundtrack on the iTunes Music Store, this is where you ask for it.
Pardon the moment of bribery-based shillery, but if I didn’t like the idea behind this piece of software, I honestly wouldn’t do this. I think.
I follow MacZot, and they run this thing called BlogZot. The idea behind BlogZot is basically a publicity fest — if enough people blog about something, [...]
“I feel I’ve tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max.”
— George W. Bush
No doubt neocons will charge that we bleeding-heart terrorism-soft liberals are taking the quote out of context. To short-circuit that, let me reprint President Bush’s quote unedited and in full here:
“Like, I feel, like, that I’ve tried to solve the [...]
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