Archive | April 30, 2009

The GOP and KKK retool their selling pitches

by on April 30, 2009 in Business & Finance

While the Republican Party is closing its ranks and entrenching itself in their ideology, the White Power movement wants you to ‘come see the lighter side’ of racism.

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Author Orson Scott Card: Gays not "acceptable, equal citizens"; "I will act to destroy that government and bring it down"

by on April 30, 2009 in Freedom & Privacy, LGBT, Religion

Orson Scott Card is a barking fascist asshat. Let me illustrate. I always marveled at how some of my friends worshiped the writing of Orson Scott Card. Maybe, I thought, it’s because we’re North Carolinians and he’s from Greensboro. From my perspective he was nothing special, at best, and has in the last couple of […]

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NYT Public Editor dances around 'Brutal Truth' of torture

by on April 30, 2009 in Freedom & Privacy, Journalism, Media & Entertainment, Politics, Law & Government, War & Security, World

Clark Hoyt’s New York Times public editor column on Monday, “Telling the Brutal Truth,” brings the ongoing “debate” over whether waterboarding is torture to brave new heights of absurdity.

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Republicans are "rebranding": round up the usual suspects

by on April 30, 2009 in Business & Finance, Media & Entertainment, Politics, Law & Government

You have to love the headline: GOP set to launch rebranding effort WASHINGTON (CNN) – Coming soon to a battleground state near you: a new effort to revive the image of the Republican Party and to counter President Obama’s characterization of Republicans as “the party of ‘no.’” CNN has learned that the new initiative, called […]

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The profound effects of redefining success—Review: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

by on April 30, 2009 in Arts & Literature, Scholars & Rogues

It sits at the core of the American Dream: the idea that, through pluck and hard work, anyone can succeed. Horatio Alger called that kind of person the “self-made man.” And according to Malcom Gladwell, it’s all a bunch of malarkey.  In his latest book, Outliers: The Story of Success, Gladwell explodes the myth of the […]

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