the art of writing is discovering what you believe
Quiz – Alabama Literacy Test circa 1965 ():
Take this quiz to see whether you would have been able to vote
before 1965 if you were not white. The Federal Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965, made tests such as this one illegal.
I didn’t know some of this and some of the questions confused me. See how you do.
This is who CNN feels is acceptable to host programs:
Think Progress » AUDIO: Laura Ingraham Tells Listeners To Jam Voter Protection Hotline:
Laura Ingraham today urged her listeners to obstruct efforts to protect voting rights by jamming a free voter protection hotline.
After playing a recording of DNC Chairman Howard Dean promoting the line to voters, Ingraham suggested her listeners call en masse:
Tell me if you think I’m crazy. This is what I’m thinking. I think we all need to call 1 888 DEM VOTE all at the same time.
Continue reading “new CNN show host’s history of dirty tricks”
Do Not Underestimate the Power of the Dark Side:
In this movie, Sauron lasers Sam and Frodo before they get to Mount Doom. Darth Vader doesn’t help Luke out in the end. Megatron wins. Wile E. catches the Roadrunner. Elizabeth Bennet learns that Darcy is a loser. Etc. Etc.
If you don’t publish your findings, you’re not doing science, you’re doing alchemy, and every alchemist had to discover for himself, the hard way, that drinking mercury was a bad idea.
There is a total lunar eclipse in about a month. It seems that this would be a good place to go see it.
There are other options, but that might be interesting.
Talking Points Memo | Data Mining:
But, again, it doesn’t fit. The intensity of the covering up doesn’t match the alleged secret.
The old adage about unraveling a scandal by following the money might need an update: in the new way of thinking, you need to follow the lies and try to work out what the lies are intended to obscure. What illegal acts, perhaps unconstitutional acts, are being lied about? It sounds like we’re not really sure what they have been up to, but they are willing to lie quite freely to keep it from us.
How bad can it be? And will we ever know?
[I]n the darkest depths of their minds, almost all [fundamentalists] harbor deep, unspoken doubts about their belief system. In fact, for all their protestations about truth and certainty, doubt is perhaps the main wellspring of their zeal: only people who live in a perpetual state of guilty unbelief can be strung along for a lifetime in such a desperate, grasping quest for assurance that their faith is sufficient for a God who offers grace, but demands constant efforts at perfection in return.