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Quotes, Politics, Media
The People get it, why can’t the Pols?
“You people are really nuts,” she told a reporter during a phone interview. “There’s kids dying in the war, the price of oil right now — there’s better things in this world to be thinking about than who served Hillary Clinton at Maid-Rite and who got a tip and who didn’t get a tip.”
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Culture 3, Technology, Media
Progress, Technology and the Abolition of Humanity
09.06.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsC. S. Lewis’s now-classic Abolition of Man explores how modernist trends in education could lead to the destruction of humanity. The book is shocking in several respects, not least in its evocation of this year, today, right now. I caught myself checking the copyright page more than once, because I couldn’t really believe that Lewis’s […]
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Culture 2, Media
Full-Court Press from Rutgers Player
“He’s come out smelling like quite the rose. But what about these young women? How does Imus’ victory affect their self-esteem? Where do they go to get their reputations back?”
I am not an Imus fan. He’s always been a mean man, a pseudo-cowboy who dealt meanness like movie cowboys deal lead. But the above quote […]
