http://ontheturningaway.com/blog Your possible pasts: a warning to anyone still in command Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:42:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Crossposted. http://ontheturningaway.com/blog/?p=1774 “Children who grow up in a different environment may have very different early experiences, and may process information differently than children from a different environment.” - BBC http://ontheturningaway.com/blog/?p=1773 The “Martin Eisenstadt” show writes itself. David Shuster/MSNBC and MSM in general are the gift that keeps on giving. Gawker has the blow-by-blow account. What does it say about the “shoddiness in the traditional news media and especially the blogosphere”? It’s “not that some in the media don’t check stuff on ... http://ontheturningaway.com/blog/?p=1772 Crossposted. http://ontheturningaway.com/blog/?p=1771 Well, if you paid any attention to the increasingly heated political rhetoric from both parties, you would’ve heard ad infinitum, and justifiably impressed by, Sen. Obama’s “tax cut” for “95% of Americans”. Republicans, predictably, take issues with how the Obama camp define “middle class”, be it income below 65k or ... http://ontheturningaway.com/blog/?p=1770 Crossposted. http://ontheturningaway.com/blog/?p=1769 We chanced upon this interesting ‘discourse’ and thought it illustrates the “sanctimonious fatigue” from the anti-hicks with what they call “reverse snobbery”, aka culture war. Self-styled liberal blogger: “Some of us, in fact, don’t give a rat’s ass where she [Ed: Gov. Palin] comes from.” Commenter: “Really? Did ... http://ontheturningaway.com/blog/?p=1768 A British academic concludes from her study that men with sexist views ‘earn more’ than their modern-thinking brothers. It could be because “more traditionally-minded men are interested in power, both in terms of access to resources - money in this case - and also in terms of a woman who ... http://ontheturningaway.com/blog/?p=1767 Crossposted. http://ontheturningaway.com/blog/?p=1766 Crossposted. http://ontheturningaway.com/blog/?p=1765