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Archive for April, 2007

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

It All Makes Perfect Sense Now!

Camile Paglia suggests a very provocative and compelling reason for the recent shooting rampage by a student at Virgina Tech:
The pervasive hook-up culture at college, where girls are prepared to sleep with boys they barely know or fancy, can be a source of seething resentment and alienation for those who are left out.
Young women now [...]

3 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Dorothy

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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

What’s the Big Deal, Anyway?

Matthew of Defective Yeti  has written up a primer on the US Attorney purge. Several pundits are pushing the talking points that US attorneys are political appointments, so firing them for partisan political advantage shouldn’t raise any eyebrows at all.
The technical term for this is bullshit. 
While it’s true that the appointments themselves are political and raise no eyebrows, once in office, [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Crimes Against Sanity, We The Sheeple by Dorothy

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Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Zero Sums and Mondays always get me down

I was reading this post over at Pandagon on the problems with thinking of Feminism as a zero-sum game, and it occurred to me that most of the issues I know of could probably be tied to zero-sum thinking.
Once you have the belief that you can’t gain unless someone else loses, you have an excuse [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Crimes Against Sanity by Dorothy

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