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Water Wheel at Columbia Springs turns back years — Replica installed at environmental education center is a legacy to lumbering.
New Aircraft Flies Without Wings or Helicopter Blades
The Giant Drill Underneath Park Avenue
Unraveling the Mystery of Murderous Minds — Prison psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple asks why we feel compelled to understand monsters like Anders Breivik, but no need to explain others’ righteous behavior.
McCain erupts: Conservatives are lying to America — And already he’s walking it back.
Evangelicals Without Blowhards — Yeah, well. A lot of those mild-mannered, big-hearted Evangelicals have gone along with the Christianist political agenda for years, enabling the madness in name of one or two single issues. Being an enabler of political poison isn’t much better than being a perpetrator.
Tempest in a Tea Party — Consider what the towel-snapping Tea Party crazies have already accomplished. They’ve changed the entire discussion. They’ve neutralized the White House. They’ve whipped their leadership into submission. They’ve taken taxes and revenues off the table. They’ve withered the stock and bond markets. They’ve made journalists speak to them as though they’re John Calhoun and Alexander Hamilton.
?otD: Whilom?
7/31/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (post-op recovery)
Body movement: 30 minutes stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 8.5 hours (solid)
Weight: 224.6
Currently reading: The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
Posted: 7:24 am Sun July 31 2011 |
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Cora
July 31st, 2011 at 10:47 amRegarding the Theodore Dalrymple interview, I don’t know if you are aware that Theodore Dalrymple is a very conservative rightwing person. He writes a regular column for the very rightwing City Journal, despises the multicultural British welfare state of today and wishes Britain would return to some mix of the Victorian era and the stiff-upper-lip attitudes of WWII. He seems to lament the decline of Christian religion, though I don’t think he’s religious himself. His columns also drip with contempt for the working and lower class people who are the subjects of his psychiatric practice.
In short, he’s the sort of person you pretty much have nothing in common with politically and tend to rail against, if they are American Republicans. That doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have anything useful to say on occasion – I quoted Dalrymple myself in my MA thesis. I was simply very surprised to see you of all people linking to this ultra-conservative person without the sort of caveat that the Eunomia guy gets. So I wondered if you were aware where he stands politically.