http://www.thoughtcops.com politics & culture / U.S. & the World Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:11:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm working now blogging with AOL'sCriando toques para telemovel para o seu Celular. new Political Machine blog site. The idea is to eventually transfer traffic back to card credit debt debt relief stop,credit card debt relief,credit card debt relief nonprofitapplication card credit instantapplication canadian card credit line,credit ... http://www.thoughtcops.com/2007/09/28/whats-up/ I shouldn't have to think this hard, and it makes me suspicious. Juan Williams begs the question in his analysis of "Little Rock 50 years later." He laments Supreme Court decisions that reigned in busing and housing patterns have led to de facto segregation, decades after de jure discrimination was ... http://www.thoughtcops.com/2007/09/25/juan-williams-begs-the-busing-question/ Sign in the crowd at the Ahmadinejad speech at Columbia: "We refuse to choose between Islamic fundamentalism and American imperialism." Yep, we'll just sit here until all of you go home. Have your war. Bomb Israel. Kill all the Jews. Execute the gays and the adulterers. Immolate ... http://www.thoughtcops.com/2007/09/24/refuse-to-choose/ I always teach my kids the diff between an accident and negligence. When they break something and say, oh, it was an accident, I say, well, accidents happen, but negligence is avoidable. But then there is a whole nuther category: malfeasance. It's not a mistake when you meant to ... http://www.thoughtcops.com/2007/09/24/thats-not-a-mistake-its-malfeasance/ Does this sound plausible? Arctic sea ice melted to its lowest level ever this week, shattering a record set in 2005 and continuing a trend spurred by human-caused global warming, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado said Thursday. Compared to 2005, the previous record-low year for Arctic sea ... http://www.thoughtcops.com/2007/09/22/lowest-level-ever/ LA Times engages the freaky dowry crimes in India, which, oddly enough, seem to involve an awful lot of woman on woman violence. This one involves women who beat and even kill their daughters-in-law to extort dowry or to punish them for inadequate dowry: Yet Devi, 27, is one of ... http://www.thoughtcops.com/2007/09/22/more-sick-cultures-in-rehab/ This sophomore MIT electrical engineering student is one crazy gal: According to an MIT Web site, Simpson is from Kihei, Hawaii, and a sprinter on the school's swim team. A personal website that purports to be hers includes this description: "In a sentence, I'm an inventor, artist, engineer, and student, I ... http://www.thoughtcops.com/2007/09/22/thats-kids-for-ya/ —“You mean there was no steak, no cream pies, no deep fat, no hot fudge?”—“Those were thought to be unhealthy, exactly the opposite of what we now know to be true.” Sleeper, 1973 The heyday of ethanol may be soon over, if anyone is willing to forgo the ample political benefits of ... http://www.thoughtcops.com/2007/09/22/a-crisis-for-iowa/ In my mind, the gun issue for Giuliani is -- like Romney's abortion stance -- about authenticity, not policy: At one point, he came close to disavowing a lawsuit against gunmakers that he initiated while mayor of New York. The 2000 lawsuit sought to hold gunmakers liable for shootings with illegal ... http://www.thoughtcops.com/2007/09/21/giuliani-on-guns-unconvincing-but-irrelevant/ We've found the WMDs ... in Syria ... surrounded by Iranian engineers, many of whom are now dead. Iran wasn't kidding the other day when it said that its escalating investments in Syria were "strategic." Jane's Defense Weekly said the July 26 explosion took place at the site of ... http://www.thoughtcops.com/2007/09/20/weve-found-the-wmds-in-syria/