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Journal Journal: Fool me once, shame on me

"We have to publicize our vision of what the movie should have portrayed. We have to make it clear, for example, that the proper response to Saruman and the Orcs was for Gandalf and his followers to go to the negotiating table, not the battlefield. And if only the Middle Earth had a United Nations and a World Court, no unilateral war against Mordor would ever have been waged.:

That's from a Dennis Prager column which had me fooled. It makes Jimmy Carter sound like the staff of The Onion are scripting his answers - but it's fictional. And it completely fooled me. Shame on me. And for that matter, shame on him for the dang thing - convincing or not, he hasn't made a point that I can see with the column. Perhaps I'm too near-sighted.

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Journal Journal: Krugman's writing a textbook!

http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/krugman_awl/

Paul Krugman's writing an economics textbook! I know I'm late on the news, but - woo! Go Paul! Paul, we love you!

But I'm not going to buy the Paul Krugman skate video. That'd be going a little far.

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Journal Journal: Reading about politics

And it's bloody depressing. You barely have to start looking before you come up with people with positive evidence that they're all schmucks - the Administration, that is.

http://www.beanmag.com/index.php
http://www.awolbush.com/
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/
http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/opensource/greenscan/
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=htdig&restrict=&exclude=&method=and&format=builtin-long&sort=time&words=Paul+Krugman

I want a revolution.

-K

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Journal Journal: dante's inferno test that's been going around

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | High
Level 1 - Limbo | Low
Level 2 | High
Level 3 | Low
Level 4 | Low
Level 5 | High
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very Low
Level 7 | Very High
Level 8- the Malebolge | High
Level 9 - Cocytus | Low
Level descriptions:
http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-information.html
Take the test:
http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv
So I guess that puts me in the "take me to the river" category.
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Journal Journal: Sampling

Good and bad at the same time that uniqueness is hard to come by - but would we know it when we saw it?

Is it too much to hope for one sentance's worth of profound thought per day ?

If it was real insight, would it slip away ? It happened to RSA, it could happen to little old me.

Thoughts.

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