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Inability to relate facts to each other (none / 0) (#4)
by chemoelectric on Sat Nov 17, 2007 at 03:21:35 PM EST
Lots of people have a striking inability to tie together the facts they actually know. A more humorous example is liberal radio hosts such as Randi Rhodes and Jon Elliot making big, ugly noise and jokes about Fred Thompson having a somewhat younger wife, neatly severing this fact from the other fact, that the difference in age between their colleague Mike Malloy and his wife (and producer) Kathy Bay is greater still. So what?

The consequences are greater than might be expected: if Rhodes or Elliot (who are just examples of a very general problem in our society) had the ability to correlate these facts, they would have realized that late-middle-aged Fred Thompson having an early-middle-aged wife isn't even remarkable, and that they were making fools of themselves.

Personally I think we do need cloture and filibuster as a way to hinder rash action, to which the United States is prone. Sometimes, as the late bird, we are going to miss the worm; it is necessary to tie that fact to the warning about rash action. No surprise, a lot of people have trouble doing that.

village sell outs are setting us up for more (none / 0) (#6)
by seabos84 on Sat Nov 17, 2007 at 05:13:54 PM EST
clintonian not getting too much done, cuz

yawn ...

how many excuses have I heard in 47 years of the complete spinelessness, incompetence or corruption from my

ha ha ha

'champions'?

So what excuses are they brewing up now ... the 60 vote thing? ha ha ha. what happened to going nuuuk-lee-ur?  whatever.

I struggled for years not cancelling my "atlantic' subscription ---

I remember lying in my bunk bed reading it, during some crappy stormy new england weather, while at boarding school as a high school junior '76-'77.  My favorite section for years was phoebe lou adams (sp?) and her book reviews.  --

oh well, good riddance to it and matt the village idiot.

I really like that term 'the village' that I see digby use - what a bunch of freaking synchophants and sell outs.

rmm.

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