Tag: iconoclasm
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October 02, 2006 10:00 PM EDT --
Once upon a time, there was a group of people who felt that their society was going downhill in a hurry. These people loved their society and were very sincere and earnest in their desire to correct the . . .
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September 23, 2006 03:25 PM EDT --
All,
Bob J has decided to support the Home for Wayward Slander group by becoming a member. Let's make him feel welcome.
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October 04, 2006 10:30 PM EDT --
Thesis: Dying for for something you believe in is stupid.
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September 22, 2006 08:01 PM EDT --
This is so funny. Bob J wrote this about me:
/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976799390.
He thinks he is funny, and all his conservative gang pals think they are funny too.
I am trying to . . .
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August 18, 2007 02:43 PM EDT --
Time published an article this week by John Cloud entitled Are We Failing Our Geniuses.
In the article he follows a young woman with high intelligence from her held-back life in Texas to a pioneering . . .
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April 20, 2007 01:19 PM EDT --
Liviu Librescu was only a kid when his family was deported from his native Romania to a labor camp in Transnistria, so he was only 78 years old -- young for a holocaust survivor -- when he died at Virginia . . .
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June 17, 2007 02:44 PM EDT --
Liberal sources have been circulating a google video of Bush at the G8 apparently drinking a beer. Bush, a recovering alcoholic who is a teetotaler, says he has not taken a drink since he was 40. . . .
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February 07, 2007 04:54 PM EST --
As reports of hurricane relief fraud surface this week, the Bush administration and the state of Louisiana are likely to use this to further starve legitimate reconstruction in New Orleans.
When the . . .
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February 22, 2007 07:46 PM EST --
This week, natural and specialty foods retailer Whole Foods acquired smaller chain Wild Oats for a questionably wise offer of over half a billion dollars. Whole Foods, which started as a hipster/hippie . . .
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October 01, 2008 01:16 AM EDT --
This is a response to the comment stream on Boing-Boing to my " Chickens Come Home to Roost " post last published on Iconoclasm.
@#19 My point is that Enron was able to be a wolf in sheep's . . .
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September 15, 2008 09:13 PM EDT --
When Enron melted down, many attributed it to dishonesty, but I and many others saw it as the inevitable consequence of a financial and accounting system that was still rooted in the tangibles of an industrial . . .
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February 14, 2007 11:52 PM EST --
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that . . .
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June 28, 2007 03:17 PM EDT --
An article in Salon this week examines the gay community in MMOs, including the issue of gay marriage in virtual gaming space in Second Life, Lord of the Rings Online, WOW and other games.
My name is . . .
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October 20, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
Yesterday at Carnegie Hall, J.K. Rowling revealed that Albus Dumbledore, beloved headmaster of Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter books, is gay.
Entertainment Weekly reports :
Responding to . . .
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October 24, 2007 06:41 AM EDT --
In the area around San Diego, an area about twice the size of the city of New Orleans has burned since Sunday . But folks there -- even the over 20,000 people evacuated to Qualcomm Stadium -- are . . .
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January 30, 2007 04:13 PM EST --
Tony Blair gave Catholic adoption agencies all over the UK a twenty month grace period to provide fully nondiscriminatory adoptions to same sex couples, the Guardian reported today. Catholic . . .
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May 10, 2007 01:25 PM EDT --
I remember my parents telling the story about when phone service made it to their community.
People didn't have a convention for answering the phone -- they would lift up the receiver and listen . . .
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July 03, 2007 05:26 PM EDT --
The Bush administration proved today that it is firm in the assertion of the privileges of the Imperial presidency. While signing statements have castrated the institution of legislation in this . . .
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May 01, 2007 03:40 PM EDT --
My friend Ron sent me email to an article in Livejournal discussing the dismissal of a manager at MIT for lying about having a degree.
My response was too long for Livejournal's comment limit, so . . .
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March 05, 2008 01:44 PM EST --
DailyKOS published an article that's getting a little play today, alleging that the Clinton campaign published an attack ad that intentionally colorized Obama's skin to darker, reminiscent . . .
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