Andrew Breitbart, Cocaine and Hypocrisy
http://moronwatch.net/2012/03/andrew-breitbart-cocaine-and-hypocrisy.html
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You know you lack credibility when no one believes you died because
your own site reported it.
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Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.
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Ayn Rand was a writer of no value whatsoever, whether aesthetic or
intellectual. The Tea Party deserves her, but the rest of us do not.
It is not less than obscene that any educational institution that
relies even in part on public funds should ask students to consider
her work. We are threatened these days by vicious mindlessness and
this is one of its manifestations."
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The average child does not come from the average family.
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In fact a certain strain of stylish smut was always one of Grove's
specialties, the proverbial "books written to be read with one hand."
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Santorum's own choice of faith over empirical knowledge provides perhaps the best example of why blindly accepting faith as virtue is misplaced. When decrying colleges as indoctrination mills, he also described how hard he had to resist the pressures in college to question his faith. In so doing, he also resisted the opportunity to learn about how the world actually works.
As a politician on our national stage, his professed ignorance about the natural world is almost unprecedented. His statements on issues ranging from evolution to the evidence for human induced global warming, and most recently about contraception and birth control only serve to demonstrate that a worldview based on closed-minded faith rather than empirical evidence can result in nonsense as a basis of public policy.
---SPSmithAnd there were changes. During the three days of inactivity, volunteers' blood sugar levels spiked significantly after meals, with the peaks increasing by about 26 percent compared with when the volunteers were exercising and moving more. What's more, the peaks grew slightly with each successive day.
The finding that global temperatures are rising over the last century-plus is one of the most robust findings of climate science and statistics.
The most common errors included not using condoms throughout sex, not
leaving space at the tip, not squeezing air from the tip, putting the
condom on upside down, not using water-based lubricants and incorrect
withdrawal. Frequent problems included breakage, slippage, leakage,
condom-associated erection problems, and difficulties with fit and
feel
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But it gets worse. Like an unnaturally iridescent convalescent-home
maraschino cherry atop this Sisyphean slag heap of woe, what actually
appears to take the greatest toll on caregivers is the sheer emotional
burden of this (formless, thankless, seemingly endless) project. For
one thing, unresolved family dynamics will probably begin to play out:
"Every study I have seen on the subject of adult children as
caregivers finds the greatest source of stress, by far, to be not the
ailing parent but sibling disagreements,"
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3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
If you believe that contraception is immoral and any sex except conjugal attempts to procreate is sinful, he's your guy. | ||||
7. If you are given a choice, you believe you have acted freely. This is one of the darkest of all psychological secrets. I'll explain it by incorporating it (and the other six secrets you've just learned) into a card trick worthy of the most annoying uncle.
THE EFFECT I cut a deck of cards a couple of times, and you glimpse flashes of several different cards. I turn the cards facedown and invite you to choose one, memorize it and return it. Now I ask you to name your card. You say (for example), "The queen of hearts." I take the deck in my mouth, bite down and groan and wiggle to suggest that your card is going down my throat, through my intestines, into my bloodstream and finally into my right foot. I lift that foot and invite you to pull off my shoe and look inside. You find the queen of hearts. You're amazed. If you happen to pick up the deck later, you'll find it's missing the queen of hearts.
THE SECRET(S) First, the preparation: I slip a queen of hearts in my right shoe, an ace of spades in my left and a three of clubs in my wallet. Then I manufacture an entire deck out of duplicates of those three cards. That takes 18 decks, which is costly and tedious (No. 2—More trouble than it's worth).
When I cut the cards, I let you glimpse a few different faces. You conclude the deck contains 52 different cards (No. 1—Pattern recognition). You think you've made a choice, just as when you choose between two candidates preselected by entrenched political parties (No. 7—Choice is not freedom).
---SPSmiththese studies suggest that those with very high incomes are more responsive to changes in tax rates than those with less-high incomes, as we would expect.2
Perhaps there are grounds for supposing that the universe was created by an intelligent being. But, at this point in time, the suggestion that this being is omnipotent, omniscient, and maximally good seems to me hardly more reasonable than the suggestion that he is omnipotent, omniscient, and maximally evil.
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