This week's collection of carnivals:
Anyone else feel that it's a shame CoE hasn't hit #66 yet?
Otherwise, you got your open thread right here.
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We've harvested a fine collection of links this week:
Circus of the Spineless #25 (there's a tattoo parlor I want to visit!)
I and the Bird #33
Carnival of Education #86
Skeptics' Circle #44
Friday Ark #106
Carnival of the Liberals #22
Comment on whatever you will!
Oy, I have so much catching up to do…
Humanist Symposium #4
Circus of the Spineless #22
Carnival of the Blue #2
Encephalon #26
Skeptics' Circle #64
Carnival of the Liberals—July 4th edition
Friday Ark #146
All right, tell me what else is new in the universe outside the Pacific…
A friend of mine emailed me that he scored a 21 out of 107 on the full list of Stuff White People Like. I thought it was a little tedious to count, so I wrote up a small script which counts it up for you via the checks you make. Below the fold....
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#107 Self Aware Hip Hop References
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We have a fine, meaty collection of carnivals today, and a couple of requests for submissions.
Carnival of the Liberals #33
Skeptics' Circle #55
Friday Ark #128
Philosophia Naturalis #7
Scientiæ Carnival #1 (this is a new carnival for women in science, technology, engineering, and math)…
Ha! Numerology!
Squidtoons!
"...the Senate, as an institution, remains remarkably similar to the body created at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. It retains all of its original powers, including providing advice and consent--yes. You said it. You better read that again in the Constitution. It retains all of its original powers, including providing advice and consent to Presidents on nominations and on treaties, serving as a court of impeachment--you better believe it, Mr. President. The Senate can send you home. You better believe that."
-Senator Robert Byrd on the Senate floor
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r109:S24AP6-0011:
Huh?
Right now Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) is on C-SPAN, filibustering until the Senate agrees to vote on his amendment which would end all subsidies to the oil industry when oil price is over $55 a barrel.
According to a recent Zogby poll, 90% of U.S. troops fighting in Iraq believe that it is retaliation for Saddam's role in 9/11.
http://www.zogby.com/NEWS/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1075
Since it has been demonstrated that Saddam had no role in 9/11, why do you suppose they are believing this?
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Charlie
"Demonstrating" or "proving" or similar ideas are barely operable terms in mass decision-making and mass communication in the U.S. "Demonstrated" to whom? How so "demonstrated" originally?
You're confusing thinking and reality with politics. A few weeks ago I wrote a bit on how Dub and Vee-Dub originally convinced a third of Americans there was a connection.
I posted it in response to an observation similar to yours.
Charlie
"Demonstrating" or "proving" or similar ideas are barely operable terms in mass decision-making and mass communication in the U.S. "Demonstrated" to whom? How so "demonstrated" originally?
You're confusing thinking and reality with politics. A few weeks ago I wrote a bit on how Dub and Vee-Dub originally convinced a third of Americans there was a connection.
I posted it in response to an observation similar to yours.