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Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Mommy, what's a euphemism?

Discussion of the contemporary evangelical movement in the US currently on NPR produced this gem:

"Evangelicals have a complicated relationship with science."

Yes. Complicated.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Some common ground

"You can find that book everywhere and the risk is that many people who read it believe that those fairy tales are real . . . I think I have the responsibility to clear things up to unmask the cheap lies contained in books like that."
--Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, on The Da Vinci Code

"You can find that book everywhere and the risk is that many people who read it believe that those fairy tales are real . . . I think I have the responsibility to clear things up to unmask the cheap lies contained in books like that."
--Me, on The Bible
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Monday, March 14, 2005

Is this news? No.

Report #4635927 concluding that Fox News is the most biased major news source comes as no surprise to the sentient, but you might want to read about it anyway.

Choice quote:

In an interview, Fox's executive daytime producer, Jerry Burke, says: "I encourage the anchors to be themselves. I'm certainly not going to step in and censor an anchor on any issue. . . . You don't want to look at a cookie-cutter, force-feeding of the same items hour after hour. I think that's part of the success of the channel, not treating our anchors like drones. They're, number one, Americans, and number two, human beings, as well as journalists."