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Culture of Corpulence — American innovations in food, transportation, and technology are threatening to supersize us all.
Giant meat-eating plants prefer to eat tree shrew poo — The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo. You couldn’t make this shit up.
Bryan Clift sees a 10 foot penis — Probably it was only six feet.
We Wouldn’t Want To Be Simplistic And Naive, Now, Would We? — Daniel Larison on nuance in politics and media, specifically with respect to the Iraq War.
“Jesus was a Nazi. So’s your preacher” — Roger Ebert on Glenn Beck. I’ve always assumed Rush Limbaugh was a rank opportunist who didn’t care what damage he did to politics and society so long as he mae his bucks. I am starting to think Beck believes his own crazy, and wants to poison the well of American culture.
?otD: How green is your valley?
3/15/2010
Writing time yesterday: 0 minutes (infusion day)
Body movement: 45 minute suburban walk
Hours slept: 6.0 (solid)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a (forgot)
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 5/10
Currently reading: [between books]
Posted: 4:14 am Mon March 15 2010 |
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John Ginsberg-Stevens
March 15th, 2010 at 4:28 amI believe “mad dog” describes Beck perfectly. He is the Nervous, Foaming Chihuahua of conservatism.
He has riled a lot of religious folk, including this gentleman: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/03/12/beck.boycott/index.html?hpt=C1 . I think a debate between them would be awesome.
Stephen Watkins
March 15th, 2010 at 10:52 amOh, I absolutely believe Beck has drank draughts of his own koolaid long and deep. The man is vile, racist, and bigoted, but he absolutely believes that these traits are admirable qualities (though he would be unable to figure out how these words are actually apt descriptions of the qualities he is exhibiting).
What embarrasses me is that many good friends, particularly those at church, also think he’s an admirable person and frequently agree with him. I just don’t understand what’s admirable about hate-speech.
In the end though, I’m pretty sure that Beck reallly believes he’s crusading to better America – it’s just that his vision of America is white-washed, has a state-imposed religion (with nominal “freedom” of religion to excercise alternate variations on a general “christian” theme), and a brutal state police that enforces his vision with extra-judicial tenacity (to name but a few of the ideas he espouses).
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