The Best Hraka Around
Lemme know.
Sadr-day night’s alright for flighting.
Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has fled Iraq for Iran ahead of a security crackdown in Baghdad and President Bush’s announced influx of 21,500 U.S. troops, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday.
Watching the latest episode now, courtesy the DVR. It’s odd. We like all the characters, but the show itself is kinda dull. Sports Night was never dull.
Not that there’s any coverage of it. I wonder why that is?
The News & Observer’s omission of race is laughable:
The man is described as being in his late teens or early 20s, about 6-foot-1 and wearing a black do-rag, a gray sweatshirt and blue jeans, according to a police news release.
Why laughable? Because the same story appeared in the Charlotte Observer, written by the same reporter, with “black” included, since it was part of the original police report. It was clearly removed in the Raleigh edition:
Police had not charged anyone late Sunday in connection with the allegations but released a description of a suspect: a black male, in his late teens or early 20s, about 6-feet-1-inch tall and wearing a black do-rag, a gray sweat shirt and blue jeans, according to the news release.
The N&O’s overtly PC editing is exactly why I canceled my subscription, even though I’d been reading it for a quarter of a century. If they can’t call a terrorist a terrorist, they don’t get any of my money.
Nor should you care. But for the tiny percentage of our audience who are up-to-date on the various blogospheric controversies….
I think we should all let bygones be bygones, and send Amanda Marcotte some nice parting gifts. Something fun, just to let her know there’s no hard feelings.
I’m thinking Glamour Shots. Chicks really dig the Glamour Shots.
Just wrap it up in some new green clothes.
This is not to say that fearing for the future of the planet is irrational in the way supernatural belief arguably is, just that — in its myths of the Fall and the Apocalypse, its saints and heretics, its iconography and tithing, its reliance on prophecy, even its schisms — the green movement now exhibits the same psychology of compliance as religion.
Dr. Orrell is no climate-change denier. He calls himself green. But he understands the unjustified faith that arises from the psychological need to make predictions.
“The track record of any kind of long-distance prediction is really bad, but everyone’s still really interested in it. It’s sort of a way of picturing the future. But we can’t make long-term predictions of the economy, and we can’t make long-term predictions of the climate,” Dr. Orrell said in an interview. After all, he said, scientists cannot even write the equation of a cloud, let alone make a workable model of the climate.
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“If you go back to the oracles of ancient Greece, prediction has always been one function of religion,” he said. “This role is coveted, and so there’s not very much work done at questioning the prediction, because it’s almost as if you were going to the priest and saying, ‘Look, I’m not sure about the Second Coming of Christ.’ ”
Via Al Fin
This here’s the wattle, the emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle, you can drink it like a man. Amen!
