23 days ago
deusx : The GOP ticket's appalling contempt for science and learning. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine - "This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are moral
Rod Begbie : The GOP ticket's appalling contempt for science and learning. - By Christopher Hitchens - "This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus." I love Hitchens. [via] #
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2 month ago
deusx : Sam Harris on Sarah Palin and Elitism | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com - "Ask yourself: how has "elitism" become a bad word in American politics? There is simply no other walk of life in which extraordinary talent and rigorous training are denigrated. We want elite pilots to fly our planes, elite troops to under
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Sam Harris on Sarah Palin and Elitism | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com - A noted provocateur rips Sarah Palin
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7 month ago
deusx : Why the great British breakfast is a killer - Times Online - "You never see anyone with a degree eating a fry-up; they're too intelligent to consume it, says Times restaurant critic"
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7 month ago
deusx : Commentary: An 'average' American will never be president - CNN.com - "The narrative about our presidential candidates being just regular folks is a tired myth that gets repeated each and every day. And their efforts to show that they are "just like us" are really pathetic." Nor *should* an "averag
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