Politics
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Why I’m Moving to Vancouver….
I was walking the other day, listening to a podcast on my beloved iPod. The podcast was of an NPR show, To the Best of our Knowledge, and it was about Canada. One of the segments was with a sociologist, Michael Adams, who wrote this book. It’s all about how the values of the United States are not the same as the values of Canada, and how that is becomming more and more the case as time goes by. For example: In the mid-1950’s, 60% of Canadians told pollsters they went to church each Sunday: the proportion in the U.S. was only 50%. Today, only 22% of Canadians claim weekly…
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My Thoughts, Exactly.
Or, close, since I didn’t know about the dinner. But there’s a pattern here. Anyway, Echidne of the Snakes, a lovely liberal blogger, has a great post about the Hunting Accident, which sums it up pretty well, I think.
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Maybe it’s time to stop with the jokes?
The second story, when combined with the first, make for some pretty bad timing, wouldn’t you say? Hunter Shot by Cheney Has Heart Attack White House Finds Humor in Hunting Mishap
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I Miss Bill Clinton
I was in the car listening to Talk of the Nation on NPR, and there was a segment on the funeral services for Coretta Scott King. They played the speaches of President Bush and President Clinton one after the other, and the difference was amazing. Bush sounded so forced and uncomfortable…Clinton sounded so relaxed, like he was at home. I don’t think it’s because Bush doesn’t respect King or her legacy. I just don’t think he’s a good speaker. And Clinton is a gifted speaker, able to sound like a regular person without ‘dumbing himself down’ or anything like that. I don’t know if Bush dumbs himself down, or if…
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Teaching Intelligent Design
Hot off the presses, the L.A. Times is reporting that a small school in Lebec, CA has begun teaching Intelligent Design in the guise of a Philosophy class. They’re getting sued by a small group of parents, represented by the Americans United for Separation of Church and State. This is kind of a murky issue…my first reaction is that Intelligent Design belongs in Church, not in school. Then I read that it’s not a Biology class, or any kind of Science class…it’s a Philosophy class. That makes it murky. If you can’t talk about this kind of thing in PHILOSOPHY CLASS, where CAN you discuss it? But wait, there’s more.…
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Sick and Tired…
Of reading about crap like this. Remember how we went to Afghanistan and threw out the Taliban? How women were freed of their burquas and girls were again allowed to go to school, how we then mostly left to go to Iraq and free the people there, which is going SO WELL. Well, I don’t think we had a right to bomb Afghanistan, (most people disagree with me on that one, I know), but I was THRILLED to see the Taliban leave (except that the reason they came into power in the first place was because the war lords who were in power before were so incredibly horrible, and seems…