or, What Democrats Don’t Understand About Morality
This is really fascinating stuff, folks.
Read this.
Then watch this:
And to quote from Jonathan Haidt’s article:
Here’s my alternative definition: morality is any system of interlocking values, practices, institutions, and psychological mechanisms that work together to suppress or regulate selfishness and make social life possible. It turns out that human [...]
Posted by Deb in Academia, Education, Government, Oddly Enough, Politics, Science on October 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
This opinion piece from The New York Times, entitled Preserving California’s Constituion, pretty much sums it up, so I’m posting the whole article here. Bottom line is that Prop 8 is a “mean-spirited attempt to embed second-class treatment of one group of citizens in the State Constitution.”
Oh, and about those “activist judges?” [...]
Posted by Deb in Community & Activism, Government, Politics, Sexuality on September 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
I am stealing this idea from Fark. The AFA is incensed that Hallmark is making same-sex marriage cards and is boycotting the company. In addition, they have a very nice website where you can write to those durned lib’rals at Hallmark and give them what fer! As was suggested on Fark, it’s also a convenient [...]
Posted by Deana in Community & Activism, Email, Fun, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, To Help, Writing, You have got to be kidding on August 24th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
John pointed out an article in the New York Times magazine that looks in-depth at Obama’s economic plan and why it’s so difficult to classify as liberal or conservative. The whole article is a great read, but this one passage caught my attention:
The second criticism is that Obama’s tax increases would send an already-weak economy [...]
Posted by Chris in Economics, Politics on August 20th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This is unbelievably lame, but will probably get me to pray the reverse just out of cussedness.
Posted by Deana in Oddly Enough, Politics, Religion, You have got to be kidding on August 8th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
via ReShun:
Posted by Chris in Economics, Government, Politics on August 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
I have a love-hate thing with Christopher Hitchens (disagree with him on a lot, think he’s an amazing speaker, wouldn’t want to get into an argument with him because I’ve seen him dismantle people with little effort), but this Vanity Fair article in which he describes his experience being waterboarded is really compelling.
Posted by Deana in Journalism, Politics on July 2nd, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s hard for me to tell how prominent a story like this is, but I’ve been reading a lot about ABC’s terrible conduct of the April 16th Democratic presidential debate. The questions were trivial and slanted, the candidates were shocked at their banality, and by the end of the show even the audience had turned [...]
Posted by Chris in News/Media, Politics on April 18th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a website round-up to keep you up-to-date during this politicized season:
To which candidate are you closest on the issues?
Track the political giving of your friends and enemies.
Enjoy some political lampooning.
Political TV - a clip for every person.
Posted by Deb in Community & Activism, Culture, Government, News Roundup, Politics on March 14th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
First, here’s an article about the current presidential candidates’ personalities, Myers-Briggs style. Those of you who know me know that the MB type indicator is something of an obsession, and so I really enjoyed this. Especially about Barack Obama. :-)
And then also connecting presidential stuff and things that make me happy, here’s today’s Frazz:
Posted by Deana in Fun, Personality, Politics on February 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
