The Stopped Clock

Political discussion and ranting, premised upon the fact that even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Monday, September 28, 2015

How to Talk About Ahmed "Clock Boy" Mohamed Without Sounding Like a Fool

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When we're talking about people writing for an outfit like Breitbart , coming across as an idiot on this type of matter may be part of ...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

One of the Prices of Bigoted Demagoguery

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Professional Islamophobe Pam Geller brings her trademark (lack of) insight to the Ahmed Mohamed incident, the boy who was arrested for bri...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Does Jon Snow Become Azor Ahai

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If you're a Game of Thrones fan, you know that one of the subplots involves Melisandre's belief that Stannis Baratheon is the reinc...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Trigger Warnings on College Campuses

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The Atlantic has published an article that correctly laments the rising use of "trigger warnings" by colleges, but which focuses...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

The Other Side of the So-Called Trophy Culture

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A recent Real Sports broadcast, summarized here , declared that our nation has a problem with a "trophy culture" that coddles kid...
Saturday, July 04, 2015

Sorry, Game of Thrones Fans: Jon Snow is Dead

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Was that clear enough? Let me say it again, just to be clear: Jon Snow is dead. Please, no more need for recycling the same old theories a...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

The Reynolds "Charity" Empire in Decline

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A few years ago I wrote a post entitled, " Is The Breast Cancer Society a Worthy Charity ", to which the answer was "No...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Addressing the Causes of Substance Abuse vs. Addiction

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I saw Johann Hari interviewed on Real Time the other day, and what he essentially offered during the interview was a version of the essay p...
Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Evangelical Christianity, Homosexuality and the Deeply Flawed "Tale of Two Bobs"

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The other day I came across a blog post by Rod Dreher , in which he embraces a parable somebody wrote a couple of years ago about two neig...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Divining the Meaning of an Election

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Michael Gerson has written a column in which he accuses political parties of... I guess it's of not sharing his personal beliefs about...
Monday, January 05, 2015

Hey, Firefox: Don't Mess With My Preferences

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I know that Mozilla/Firefox ended its contract with Google and entered into a new search contract with Yahoo! , but that doesn't mean I...
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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Just a Little Bit of Torture?

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Via Charles Pierce , I found Jonah Goldberg's unimpressive defense of the use of torture. Goldberg opens, For a long time I resisted th...
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