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  Gah . . .

  Right-wing talking points . . . too many of them at once . . . brain . . . turning to . . . mush ....On Republican platform acknowledges climate change but spurns 'no-growth' radicalism posted 1 year, 2 months ago 25 Responses

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  Wow, sounds disturbingly similar to . . .

  the Paris Hilton energy plan.

  There's just gotta be some obscure phrase or foreign word for this . . . when the simulacrum is just as real as the thing itself or even moreso . . .On T. Boone Pickens airs his first television ad posted 1 year, 2 months ago 5 Responses

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  Well I guess celebrity is only a bad thing...

  . . . if you're a Democrat. It certainly didn't stop Reagan, Schwarzenegger, or Fred Thompson from achieving high office. On McCain compares Obama to Britney and Paris in new energy ad posted 1 year, 3 months ago 9 Responses

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  With apologies to PT Barnum . . .

  . . . you'll never go broke underestimating the prejudices of the American public. Then again, it might be worthwhile to mine this ad for best practices regarding how to talk about environmental issues to red-staters. For example, note that the word "environment" does not appear once in the ad copy. Instead the emphasis is on "population," "infrastructure," "resources," "gridlock," and "traffic," all concerns that average Americans can grasp easily. When it comes to proselytizing the unwashed, the less we invoke hippies and eco-asceticism (though I personally endorse both) in our language, the wider we'll be heard. On Anti-immigrant groups hide agenda behind environmental concerns posted 1 year, 5 months ago 17 Responses

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  The instinct to classify . . .

  . . . is fundamental to the human mind, which means that as long as our eyes can distinguish between earth tones, race will continue to be salient. It's unfortunate, but if you look at the fates of recent black electoral candidates (Lynn Swann, Michael Steele, and Harold Ford Jr. come to mind), there does seem to be a bit of a colored-glass ceiling in this country. So CR is probably right, but right now I'd settle for a reality-based president only slightly less in hock to corporate interests than the one we have now.On Al Gore: Not retarded posted 2 years, 8 months ago 2 Responses