Comments on: links for 2008-05-05 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/05/05/links-for-2008-05-05/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:00:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Porlock Hussein Junior http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/05/05/links-for-2008-05-05/#comment-93620 Porlock Hussein Junior Tue, 06 May 2008 04:26:42 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/05/links-for-2008-05-05/#comment-93620 How odd, and stupid, and really funny, to ask Dawkins if he'd like to live in a society run on Darwinian principles. Several years ago I heard him say, clearly and voluntarily, that such a society would be awful. It's probably not the only time he's said it. Was Berlinski that ignorant? Not hard to believe. Or did he think he was cleverly maneuvring Dawkins into an unpopular answer. Not too hard to believe, since that's a pretty stupid idea. In other news, the Slate piece was really informative. It's a funny thing: we all knew that Obama did not at all have a grip on the Black vote last year, and there was plenty of coverage of it. Then suddenly the votes were in his pocket (BTW, thanks, guys! You may save us all yet) and the change doesn't seem to have been newsworthy. I hadn't thought about the "not qualified to be President" gambit and its effects. Gee, ya think some people might take that sort of personally and be easily offended by it? (Though I'm not sure why women should be <i>in</i>sensitive to that sort of thing, either.) But in fact, it hadn't occurred to me that way -- just that it was a nasty approach and a pro-Republican one -- and it doesn't seem to have got much press. And after all, if it didn't occur to me, then you can't expect the Clintons' professional experts to have thought of it! Is that compaign going to be written up as "Fear and Loathing" or as "Dumb and Dumber"? How odd, and stupid, and really funny, to ask Dawkins if he’d like to live in a society run on Darwinian principles. Several years ago I heard him say, clearly and voluntarily, that such a society would be awful. It’s probably not the only time he’s said it. Was Berlinski that ignorant? Not hard to believe. Or did he think he was cleverly maneuvring Dawkins into an unpopular answer. Not too hard to believe, since that’s a pretty stupid idea.

In other news, the Slate piece was really informative. It’s a funny thing: we all knew that Obama did not at all have a grip on the Black vote last year, and there was plenty of coverage of it. Then suddenly the votes were in his pocket (BTW, thanks, guys! You may save us all yet) and the change doesn’t seem to have been newsworthy.

I hadn’t thought about the “not qualified to be President” gambit and its effects. Gee, ya think some people might take that sort of personally and be easily offended by it? (Though I’m not sure why women should be insensitive to that sort of thing, either.) But in fact, it hadn’t occurred to me that way — just that it was a nasty approach and a pro-Republican one — and it doesn’t seem to have got much press. And after all, if it didn’t occur to me, then you can’t expect the Clintons’ professional experts to have thought of it! Is that compaign going to be written up as “Fear and Loathing” or as “Dumb and Dumber”?

]]> By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/05/05/links-for-2008-05-05/#comment-93518 Duros62 Mon, 05 May 2008 16:12:54 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/05/links-for-2008-05-05/#comment-93518 August nails it once again. I tip my hat, sir. August nails it once again. I tip my hat, sir.

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