It’s the condescension, stupid: the curse of the progressives
This excellent Slate article can be summarized as follows: if you look down on people, it’s unlikely that they’ll start looking up to you.
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Attacking Jello mold
Not for the squeamish—especially the squeamish who love jello molds (although perhaps that’s an oxymoron). Consider yourself warned.
Continue reading →Sanity Squad at 8 PM tonight
Click here to listen as Dr. Sanity, Siggy, Shrinkwrapped, and I discuss the Arab Mind, based on Shrink’s series of the same name.
Continue reading →All you conservatives who don’t plan to vote for McCain—listen up!
This sort of thing is one of the reasons it’s in your interest to vote for him anyway, if you care about the future of the Supreme Court. Or the future of voter fraud. Do you think for one moment … Continue reading →
It must be silly season…
…if I find myself in general agreement with Paul Krugman.
Continue reading →No money from oil…
…companies, says Obama. Just their executives, family members, and employees. Which of course leaves him free from any taint of oil influence—as opposed to all the other candidates who also do not take money from oil companies, because it’s illegal. … Continue reading →
Podcast today: the Sanity Squad
At 8 PM Eastern time tonight, the Sanity Squad will be discussing Hillary’s future after tomorrow’s primary, and dear old ex-President Jimmy Carter and his recent Middle East shenanigans. Join Dr. Sanity, Shrink, Siggy, and me.
Continue reading →I’ve got it—Jimmy Carter sees himself as the Mr. Rogers of the world
See this.
Continue reading →Little Brother is watching you
It seems a person can’t say a word these days without someone recording it or writing about it. For example, the San Francisco fundraiser at which Obama described the bitter clingers of Pennsylvania was meant to be a very private … Continue reading →
Italian food—for thought
Is the Italian election a portent of things to come in our own? The Obamalike candidate defeated by a 71-year-old on the right? Hmmm. The Italian political scene and ours are very different, to be sure. But there are also … Continue reading →
Rhetoric unmasked
Dr. Sanity deconstructs (love that word!) the emphasis of the postmodern Left—and its current well-known incarnation, Obama—on rhetoric. That’s postmodern rhetoric, as in, “[P]ersuasion in the absence of cognition… truth or falsity is not the issue: what matters primarily is … Continue reading →
Sanity Squad: see you next week
Due to a “bunch of stuff,” (channeling Barack Obama here) on the part of the Sanity Squad members, there will be no podcast this week. We plan to be back next Monday, same time, same station.
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