Category: 11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
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U.S. troops accused of damaging Babylon's ancient wonder – CNN.com
The site of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon was converted into Camp Alpha shortly after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. The troops and their contractors caused “major damage” by digging, cutting, scraping and leveling while they were revamping the site to meet military standards, the U.N. cultural agency, UNESCO, said in a report. […]
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Shining Shithole on the Hill
The good thing about being an INFJ is you see patterns in everything all the time but stay quiet and introverted enough that you pack down your suspicions labeled as paranoia. I don’t blog much lately because everything I’m feeling is so hopeless. I guess that is a bit extreme. Things locally are wonderful. Ron […]
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Chris Matthews Nails Kevin James to the Wall
Sometime Tweety gets it right. This is a perfect example of a media-whore parking on a buzzword and parroting it with no context. Matthews pressed James at least 19 times over five minutes to simply explain what Chamberlain had done in 1938 and 1939 to make him an “appeaser.” James could only shout his talking […]
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An Actuarial Nightmare: GAO Comptroller on 60 Minutes
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Like, You Know
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Pawleys Island Youngster Complete Idiot
We used to go to Pawleys Island, South Carolina every summer for vacation when we were kids. One week at a quiet rustic island. Then there’s the science fair at the local Christian Academy: [A]n eighth-grade student who won first place in the Life Science/Biology category for his project “Creation Wins!!!,” says he disproved part […]
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Blitzer Gives Cheney's Heart a Stress Test
Yeek. Blitzer still held back a bit too much.
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The Other Martin Luther King, Jr
Every year the media enshrines Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and always conveniently forgets the last several years of his life where he moved from race relations to class structure and poverty. In the early 1960s, when King focused his challenge on legalized racial discrimination in the South, most major media were his allies. But […]