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Switzerland Discovers Irrationality?
Imogen Foulkes’ analysis for BBC News of the Swiss vote to ban minarets indicates that the descent of reasoned political debate into irrationality has now spread beyond the United States to Europe. As I read it, I could not help but remember...Can We Make Entertainment Out of Irrationality?
If, as I have suggested, irrationality knows no bounds, can we at least start mining it for its entertainment value? I have to confess that this was my immediate reaction to the following report that just appeared on the BBC News Web site: Venezuelan...Honoring the Opposition
I used my lunch hour to (finally) watch the Book TV broadcast of Howard Dean at Politics and Prose last August promoting his book on health care reform. While I did not disagree with any of his major points, I found myself disconcerted by his worldview...Restructuring The’Dynamic Duo’
Yesterday I suggested that House Republican from Minnesota Michelle Bachmann had turned my “dynamic duo of demagoguery,” Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin, into an “unholy trinity.” While I think that it is dangerous to assume...Demagoguery on the Rise (again)
Apparently, my “dynamic duo of demagoguery,” Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin, will have to make room for a third party, sacrificing their alliteration and becoming an “unholy trinity.” According to a report last night from Associated...
Obama, Republicans Swap Charges on Health Care Reform
U.S. President Barack Obama has said critics of his health care reform proposals are circulating “outrageous myths.” Opposition Republicans counter that it is Mr. Obama who does not have his facts straight. As President Obama is reported to...The Divisive Strategy
My primary response to the AT&T Yahoo! “Palin poll” on Wednesday was a fear that the divisiveness of the results would encourage a Republican political strategy concerned with “maintaining (if not aggravating) that division.”...AT&T Yahoo! Polls Palin (again)
The AT&T Yahoo! polling process is at it again, and once again the focus is on Sarah Palin. Bearing in mind the unscientific statements of both context and question, I think that the numbers still have something to say. Here they are:
