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Author Archives: John Casey
A Harvard Ph.D. should have been able to figure out what was going on
Jason Richwine, Heritage Foundation scholar and Harvard School of Public Policy PhD, was forced to resign last week after people actually read some of his work. Here’s conservative commentator Byron York: On Friday morning, the 31 year-old scholar resigned from … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron York, Jason Richwine, Racism, scientific racism
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Here’s the skinny
Putzing around the internets the other day I ran across an example of an interesting and very common kind of downplayer. Some context, the CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch (see above), a clothing retailer, has claimed he only wants to sell clothes to thin, … Continue reading
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Tagged Downplayers, Mike Jeffries, Shana Lebowitz, Straw Man
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Fun with Cartoons
Here’s a cartoon that expresses a sentiment I’ve heard a lot of lately (pulled it off of Reddit): I’m sad that this needs commentary. Of the five or so things wrong with this, I think the worst is the implication … Continue reading
I don’t have evidence to back that up
The FBI and I don’t know who planted the bombs in Boston. Nor does Susan Collins, Senator from Maine. She, however, is willing to speculate (from Dave Weigel at Slate): “Whenever we have an attack like this it’s difficult not to … Continue reading
The old ball and chain
A playground loser may save his ego with the following: I didn’t want to win anyway. Here’s Yale Professor David Brooks’ latest version. But last week saw a setback for the forces of maximum freedom. A representative of millions of gays and … Continue reading
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Tagged David Brooks, David Brooks Yale Professor, Freedom, Gay Marriage, Incomprehensible bullshit
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El milagro de los milagros
A viewer of televangelist Pat Robertson’s 700 Club asked an obvious but important question about Miracles. Here it is (via Raw Story via Reddit): On Monday’s episode of CBN’s The 700 Club, Robertson responded to a viewer who wanted to know why “amazing miracles (people … Continue reading
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Tagged 700 Club, Jesus is a jerk, Miracles, Pat Robertson, Reddit
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Don’t try this at home
Hunter, writing at the The Daily Kos makes a salient point about iron manning. Speaking of Ralph Reed, invited just this Sunday to NBC’s Meet the Press to comment on the subject of gay marriage (he commented on the science!), he … Continue reading
Slippery coke
Check out this Brian McFaden Comic (at the Daily Kos):* Seems like your standard slippery slope argument to me (in addition to some poignant commentary on how wasteful this particular argument is). We’ve talked about this a lot here–here’s one by … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian McFaden, Mayor Bloomberg, New York City, Slippery Slope, soft drink ban
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