Either/or

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Either/or

Mary Anne — 12/9/2006 12:50:30 PM (archived)

Show me the way in which the dictators and "presidents for life" the US has supported over the years, especially those in the Middle East and Latin America, are or have been "leftists" and you might have a point.

Meanwhile, I know gay-bashing evolution-denying fundamentalists. It's been an interesting life, explaining diplomatically why there are no creationist books in the science section, why there even are two books on Hinduism in the collection (heathens!), why we retain that one copy of And Tango Makes Three. One good thing has come of this: I wrote a pamphlet for parents that outlines available tools to select books for children. Alas, this has not satisfied the people who mounted the book challenge. The object, you see, is not to hold people responsible for choosing their children's materials, but to make sure that only materials acceptable to them are available to choose.

These are the people who voted for your guy.

Personally, after years of close observation, I have concluded that fundamentalism is an ideology. If it looks like a duck, and it walks like a duck...

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"Diversity and dissent" (from Community) - TB - 12/8/2006 10:15:25 PM
- Laughable as always - azstrummer - 12/9/2006 5:03:46 PM
  - Choices - Bowser - 12/11/2006 5:27:40 AM
- "Liberal-tarianism" - Fox - 12/9/2006 3:55:46 AM
  - Link - TB - 12/9/2006 7:01:48 AM
    - Quote - Fox - 12/9/2006 9:23:12 PM
- re: "Diversity and dissent" (from Community) - Robert - 12/9/2006 2:07:48 AM
  - So let me get this straight... - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/9/2006 6:49:35 AM
    - That'd be novel - Robert - 12/10/2006 6:05:48 PM
      - "You and your invisible Robert have a lovely time. " - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/12/2006 6:28:33 PM
    - Either/or - Mary Anne - 12/9/2006 12:50:30 PM
      - It ain't the Republicans trying to get "Huckleberry Finn" out of the schools. - TB - 12/9/2006 11:07:23 PM
        
        No. They're working on "Macbeth". - Mary Anne - 12/10/2006 3:39:12 PM
        
        Correction: - Mary Anne - 12/10/2006 4:15:51 PM
        
        Statistics - TB - 12/10/2006 11:05:05 PM
        
        Thanks for looking. - Mary Anne - 12/10/2006 11:48:56 PM
        
        re: Thanks for looking. - TB - 12/11/2006 4:56:46 AM
        
        When I was in 5th grade... - R.L. - 12/11/2006 11:51:18 PM
        
        Where's Waldo? - Mary Anne - 12/11/2006 1:27:47 PM
      - You know... - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/9/2006 10:56:09 PM
        
        Hmmm. You made sense. - Mary Anne - 12/10/2006 6:07:24 PM
        
        Everybody has to draw their own lines. - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/12/2006 2:52:49 AM
        
        re: Hmmm. You made sense. - M.A.E. - 12/11/2006 3:19:54 AM
        
        The war against religion is a war of demographics and population surges - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/12/2006 7:03:52 PM
        
        run your stats again and compare urban vs. agrarian and middle-class vs. poor - alcaray - 12/13/2006 5:00:58 PM
        
        B i r t h C o n t r o l... - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/14/2006 12:07:51 AM
        
        C h i l d M o r t a l i t y... - Mary Anne - 12/14/2006 3:04:36 AM
        
        I agree... - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/14/2006 4:27:11 AM
  - A short refresher - TB - 12/9/2006 6:46:17 AM
    - A short reframing - Robert - 12/10/2006 5:59:30 PM
      - Naivete thy champion is Robert. - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/14/2006 2:13:31 AM
        
        Something something, thy poster boy is SDAI-Tech1 - Robert - 12/14/2006 3:35:20 AM
        
        Whatchamacallit Conservatism - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/14/2006 4:17:51 AM
        
        For those of us who don't believe in reincarnation... - Mary Anne - 12/14/2006 3:43:00 PM
        
        Reincarnation or not... - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/14/2006 6:18:30 PM
        
        Thingamajig theology - Robert - 12/14/2006 5:09:46 AM
      - re: reframing, and some new ideas. - TB - 12/10/2006 11:46:07 PM
        
        some new ideas. - Robert - 12/11/2006 5:48:44 PM
        
        re: some new ideas. - TB - 12/11/2006 7:27:57 PM
        
        new ideas, summary, new ramblings - Robert - 12/11/2006 10:32:30 PM
        
        I really think you're working too hard on this. - TB - 12/11/2006 11:57:35 PM
        
        I overlooked an axis - Robert - 12/13/2006 6:02:46 PM
        
        re: I overlooked an axis - TB - 12/13/2006 11:33:51 PM
        
        re: I overlooked an axis - Robert - 12/14/2006 3:14:57 AM
        
        Correction: - TB - 12/11/2006 7:28:57 PM
  - bla bla blablabla bla blaaaaa bla blabla - M.A.E. - 12/9/2006 4:04:18 AM

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