What's wrong with calling an openly gay person gay? Imagine if Bush had talked about how traumatic divorce is and talked about how hard it must have been on Kerrys' daughters when Kerry left their mother Andrew Sullivan, a gay Republican (though not a Bush fan) and also my favorite blogger, wri
While I have nothing against "Jesus Day" in principle, we already have Christmas and Easter, both of which commemorate Jesus. I'm not sure what Jesus Day would do for us that isn't done by one of those days. My opinion of "Jesus Day" depends on what exactly the government is going to do for this day. If government funded a Jesus March using tax dollars, or spent tax dollars promoting Jesus, then I'd actively object. But it doesn't look like th
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07. Be international. Or just have an international address where you can mail your application from. I've had admissions officers tell me that this is a *disadvantage.* You can't properly judge the application of someone from another country--you don't know anything about the grading system, the tests,
Just curious as to what set off this outburst? What was the class talking about that prompted her to yell this?
I don't know how the system works in the US, but in Australia to qualify for the Masters and PhD programs you have to a) have worked in the area for a significant amount of time and be able to demonstrate knowledge or b) qualify in the top 10% of students in your Bachelor's program
TW, I was using the generic "you should" as in "people should" not the specific "you, TW, should." Hope that clears things up.
I'm going to second Madine. You shouldn't vote because you feel it will somehow make a difference, because it won't. I would guess that you're more likely to get struck by lightning on the way to the polling place than you are to cast the deciding vote in a presidential election, no matter where you live. Rather, you should vote because it's the right thing to do. Btw, Hawaii is not a swing state. It's one of the most Democratic states in the
The most important thing about good debate is to carefully and openmindedly read what your opponent says. The most frustrating thing about debating online is when your opponent decides that you're saying something completely different from what you actually intended to say. I tend to think this is usually unintentional, rather than deliberate straw-man abuse--and of course sometimes it's the writer's fault--but it's still annoying as hell when
What about the remote interview thing? I think most of us haven't ever done one.
Am I alone in thinking that Nixon did more to undermine people's faith in the presidency than Clinton? I only ask that when you newspeak these lies into "innocent misunderstandings" or "liberal spin" you test your alleged "Kerry Lies" with the same bulls**t detector Exactly. People are more for
I'm sure the text is vetted, but the delivery isn't. And telling Chris Matthews that he wished he could shoot him was definitely not in the script.
One reason people don't vote is that their individual vote doesn't matter. People make a purely rational decision that their individual vote makes no difference in the outcome, and therefore don't bother to--even though they may be well-informed. This is harmful for society. If voting was mandatory this wouldn't be such an issue.
The thing I resent about *targeted* tax cuts is that they undermine free markets. Government's job should be to ensure fair competition between businesses. If different businesses are paying different tax rates, that's not fair competition. It biases the market toward larger firms, who have more power to negotiate and/or lobby for tax breaks. It means that the most efficient producers won't necessarily be the most profitable. It means that gov
According to those sites, non-farm employment shows a net loss under Bush. Are we becoming an agrarian nation?? Hmm. There are two types of unemployment surveys. The "establishment data" shows a net loss. Household data shows a net gain. I know that most economists, including Greenspan, consider the establishment data (based on payroll surveys) to be much more reliable but there's a pretty big disc
It was a damn good speech. The only problem with it is that the Republican party he praised--the party of limited spending, "get the government off my back" libertarianism, pro-immigrant, party of personal responsibility and entrepreneurship bears no relationship to the *actual* budget-busting, holier-than-thou, xenophobic pork-dispenser that is the modern Republican party.
I think the level of competition is the problem here. Everyone thinks, "if we don't print it, our competitors will, and steal our business." So everyone prints everything they find out.
Anyone figured out what the quiz writer means by "Anarcho-syndicalist?" I mean, we don't all want to violently overthrow the government, do we?
Hmm 1: Libertarian (100%) 2: New Labour (98%) 3: Anarcho-syndicalist (92%) 4: Liberal (87%) 5: Conservative (43%) 6: Traditional Societies (42%) 7: Authoritarian (40%) 8: Totalitarian (33%) I'm certainly libertarian, new labour, and liberal. Then I went to dictionary.com and found out that syndicalism is "a radical political movement that advocates bringing industry and government under th
I would argue that deforestation is at least as much of a reason for CO2 to increase than emissions and I don't think CO2 is the reason the temperature is growing No offense, but if you sat down, found out how much coal and oil we've burned over the past cen
Obesity is much worse among the poor. I've read that the obesity statistics relate to the fact that healthy foods are often more expensive (potato chips give you way more calories per dollar than fruits and vegetables), and that the poor don't have time/money/environment for exercise.
The fact that poverty has *increased* really does reflect badly on Bush though. It's a legitimate thing for Kerry to discuss. Every statistic has its flaws. For example, the "unemployment rate" is too optimistic: it is lower than "true" unemployment, since it does not count people who feel they have no chance of getting work and thus have given up trying to find it. This is a significant effect, though it's been a while since I took econ so I
Getting back to the politicizinig of this issue, the problem is that this number grows each year and it's not merely adjusted for inflation I'm pretty sure it *is* merely adjusted for inflation... or at least so says this week's Economist: http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=31
The govornments claim is that the Yucca mountain site will provide worry free safe storage for 10,000 years. I find that claim hard to believe, there isnt alot of sceizmic activity at the site, but no chance of an event that would trigger a container-breaching cave in in 10,000 years? Thats tough to believe. I support the effort to move the waste to a centralized location but I would be happier if we could find a risk free way to fire it into the sun.<
My one gripe about this quiz is that it doesn't have anything specifically about free trade versus protectionisism, which is a pretty major component of anyone's view of how nations should relate to each other. I'm a realist, as I expected to be.
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