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2003-07-24 Fifth Column

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Posted by Secret Master 2003-07-24 12:16:16 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Elegantly meta!

Posted by Lucky 2003-7-24 12:26:47 PM|| 2003-7-24 12:26:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow! Those are some really big words! They fit right in with my current study, "Why People Understood Ronald Reagan But Don't Have a Clue About Berkeley Perfessers."

Posted by Matt 2003-7-24 12:32:51 PM|| 2003-7-24 12:32:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Leftist thinking: Qusay and Uday were victims of their father. They were brought up to be sadists and had no choice. They were victims of their father just as much as the people they tortured and killed themselves. We have their blood on our hands and that makes us just as bestial as them. We should dwell on this for days and feel terribly guilty. I think I'll cry now.

Conservative thinking: They're animals and they're dead. The world is a better place. Let's get the power going, the government in place, clean out the rest of the cockroaches and move on. We'll contemplate our navels later.

Put me in that latter group!

Posted by Dar 2003-7-24 12:41:42 PM|| 2003-7-24 12:41:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Lucky: I picked up on that "meta" reference, too. Translated, the tortuous sentence which precedes it means: "We didn't do a lick of original research. We read a bunch of other studies and used them to support our hypothesis." So tell me, how do you calculate a confidence interval for "meta-analysis?" Variance? Minimum sample size? How do you determine if your axes are independent? This is junk science at its absolute worst. Classical civilization became lost when it wandered into the wasteland of neo-Platonism. Instead of metaphysics we have meta-analysis. This just makes me ill.

Posted by 11A5S 2003-7-24 1:21:41 PM|| 2003-7-24 1:21:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Why is Bush,then,an agent of change in Iraq while the Liberals wanted to keep Saddam in power?

Posted by El Id 2003-7-24 2:49:29 PM|| 2003-7-24 2:49:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Add. To paraphrase P.J. O'Rourke:By Liberals I don't mean open-minded,permissive people or even big-government Democrats.I mean people who think Ben&Jerry giving 1% of their profits to world peace is absolutely fabulous.

Posted by El Id 2003-7-24 2:55:24 PM|| 2003-7-24 2:55:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 So so happy that someone has done a study on this!
Why they did it, I have no idea. I remember a line in Blazing Saddles "For crissakes, we've GOT to protect our phoney baloney jobs!"
Why don't they do a study on Useless Academic Studies and Their Costs to the Taxpayer? That I'd be interested in.

Posted by tu3031 2003-7-24 3:51:24 PM|| 2003-7-24 3:51:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I can't wait for the liberal version. Expect comparisons with Joan of Arc, Mother Teresa, Gandhi, and my ass.

Posted by Paul 2003-7-24 4:59:41 PM|| 2003-7-24 4:59:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 It's a psychological condition? Like an illness?

Cool.

I do believe I'm going to call in conservative tomorrow morning.

And the ADA will apply. Gosh darn it, I'm in a protected class now!!!

Posted by BJD (The Dignified Rant) 2003-7-24 5:20:07 PM|| [www.geocities.com/brianjamesdunn/TDRhome.html] 2003-7-24 5:20:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 "They are more comfortable seeing and stating things in black and white in ways that would make liberals squirm," Glaser explained. (I like it when they squrim,feels great)

Wrong,stupid!

Had a similar discussion with a vegitarian, pacifist lady friend awhile back.
All the"Bovine Scatology"in this article is just that"Bovine Scatology"(Gen.Swarzcoff)
It has nothing to due with black,white,gray or any other color.
It is a matter of right and wrong.
What a bunch of dumb-asses!

Posted by raptor 2003-7-24 6:10:56 PM|| 2003-7-24 6:10:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Lucky: You mean elegantly mental, right? These beauzeaux must have fried their brains on all sorts of funny chemicals.

Posted by Ri'Neref 2003-7-24 6:14:54 PM|| 2003-7-24 6:14:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 So conservatives like certainty and liberals like nuance? Then I guess we have to rewrite a famous liberal's most famous speech:

"December 7 is a day that might, or might not, live in infamy. We simply don't have the historical perspective to judge the event at this point in time. We need to examine the root causes of what appears at first to be an act of aggressive violence, and I'm confident that those men trapped in the Oklahoma would want us to do so."

Posted by Matt 2003-7-24 7:11:48 PM|| 2003-7-24 7:11:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Matt: ROTFLMGMO!

Posted by Korora 2003-7-24 7:18:50 PM|| 2003-7-24 7:18:50 PM|| Front Page Top

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