As the Worm Turns

For all my hard-hearted cynicism, there is something about Michel Gondry that just makes me laugh.

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Michel Gondry, television, parody

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The title of the post is “Why Liberals Loathe ‘The People’“, but for the life of me I can’t find an explanation of why liberals hate ‘The People.” At most, this McCullough guy produces some feeble evidence that liberals hate the people, leaving any explanation as to why to some unsupported, blanket assertions:
Regardless of partisan […]

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So, for any one of my thirty or so readers who thinks that my reduction of politics to psychology seems odd, take a look at this article about a study linking feelings of pleasure to giving money.
Knowing your money is going to a good cause can activate some of the same pleasure centers in your […]

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Let’s look at these two sentences:
What can even be said about that? And nobody really seems to find this odd or disturbing or objectionable at all — that night after night, one of the featured “journalists” of a major news network goes on television and, with some of our most prestigious […]

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I’ve posted claiming that political affiliation should be seen as a function of psychology and not belief. That’s a crazy thing to say. Assertions that absurd need to be defended.
So I’ll back-track: I am exaggerating for rhetorical effect. Of course there is more to it than just an individual’s psychology and worldview. There’s also the […]

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Let’s take this tidbit by Don Boudreaux of Cafe Hayek:
I don’t recycle my trash because my time is too precious for me to spend it sorting such items into different containers. I never criticize those who do recycle, but environmentalists point accusing fingers at us nonrecyclers. In environmentalists’ eyes, those who unquestioningly disregard the value […]

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Three things.
First, updated RSS feeds:
I have changed over to Feedburner to burn my feeds. The little orange doohicky on the right of the navigation bar now says “Feedburner” instead of “RSS”, and it points to a different url. You can subscribe to comments, also. I changed over just because it’s what the cool kids are […]

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Earlier I mentioned the importance of distinguishing between relativism and pluralism without ever getting around to defining pluralism; an oversight due to laziness on my part.
Luckily, a recent skerfuffle between Damon Linker and Matthew Yglesias over the late Richard Rorty can act as a nice little primer on pluralism and its grounds. Linker claims that […]

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Being religious is incompatible with belief in Darwinism or modern biology. That’s the lesson of this Gallup poll. It’s big news and is filtering through all the atheist blogs. Starting with Pharyngula, of course.
For those too lazy to click through to the source material, what we have is this:

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. In fact, it […]

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I like bad arguments. I like them the same way “American Idol” fans like the contestants who can’t sing. The way NASCAR fans secretly like crashes. You’re not supposed to, but you do.
If you’re looking for bad arguments, the internet is the place to be. And on the internet, Human Events and Townhall.com are two […]

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