The year that’s fading away strikes me as an especially rich one for dubious causes, so they ought to be memorialized in some way. These in particular struck me as super-weird:
1. Cindy Sheehan’s vigil in Crawford on behalf of a dead son who wouldn’t have approved for a meeting with the President she’d already had.
2. [...]
I hope you get everything you want, and I’m sorry your birthday is on Christmas ’cause you get rooked out half your presents every year. No wonder you’re so angry with us.
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New home sales declined 11.3% last month, the biggest drop in more than a decade:
WASHINGTON — New-home sales posted the biggest fall in nearly 12 years last month, while a strong surge in the volatile aircraft sector boosted demand for expensive manufactured goods.
Amid mounting interest rates, sales of single-family homes decreased 11.3% to a seasonally [...]
The court’s ruling that Intelligent Design is nothing more than a sham was better than I’d expected:
A “hypothetical reasonable observer,” adult or child, who is “aware of the history and context of the community and forum” is also presumed to know that ID is a form of creationism. Child Evangelism, 386 F.3d at 531 (citations [...]
I’m opposed to the death penalty and have been for quite some time. While there are several good reasons to oppose the death penalty, the one that I find most compelling is the sloppiness of the criminal justice system. Eye-witness testimony is notoriously inaccurate, and it’s the gold standard of evidence, and physical evidence is [...]
Christine Maggiore is getting downright ridiculous:
On November 17, almost a month after its completion and the multiple reviews—and with the enthusiastic blessing of Dr Al-Bayati—we gave the analysis to David Crowe of the Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society with instructions to post it on the internet along with an invitation for professional comment. In this way [...]
Tony Pierce has written an amusing post speculating that Open Pajamas Media is funded by the White House as some sort of Gannon-like propaganda tool, eliciting some interesting reactions. Jeff Goldstein and John Cole, the two OPM bloggers I read, embarrass themselves by playing the race card. Jeff wrote this in Tony’s comments:
Surprised you didn’t [...]
Stereotypes, stereotypes, I’ve got all the stereotypes. The reason that stereotypes are with us is that each tends to contain a kernel of truth: blacks commit more crime per capita than others, so we have the “blacks are criminals” stereotype. Asians do better in school than others, so we have the “Asians are studious” stereotype. [...]
Moneyball author Michael Lewis has written an excellent piece on Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach. You don’t have to like football to enjoy the piece and it actually kind of helps if you don’t.
H/T Mumsie.
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I’ve been tagged by Mumsie with the Seven x Seven deal.
This is going to take some time.
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