Cleaning up the email and Firefox tabs
by Jack GrantWhen I run across articles, posts, and other writings worth a longer read, I send an email to myself with the link. Unfortunately, life intervenes and by the time I make it back to my house, I have neither the time nor the energy to devote to a full discussion of the links and the concepts they convey.
So, in lieu of that discussion, I will instead merely list the links and ask that you form your own conclusions from them, which is indeed the main thrust of my posts here at Random Fate, a repetitive request that you form your own opinions rather than mindless mouthing of partisan talking points, a theme that should be obvious at least to those who are paying attention.
The National Catholic Reporter on a survey about the use of torture
IBM devises carbon nanotube chip
IBM touts milestone with single nanotube-based IC
Bush’s Credibility Gap: Historical And Current Roots
A NEW TYPE OF DISCRIMINATION
The Prohibition EraRoberts Dissent Reveals Strain Beneath Court’s Placid Surface
Do your own math to find any pattern therein that might exist.
UPDATE: The text to the link to The National Catholic Reporter article changed at the request of a reader to avoid confusion. The headline to the article, which was the original text, “Americans, especially Catholics, approve of torture” is misleading both for the thrust of the article and the supporting polling data.
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Well, at first blush I’d say that there’s no pattern.
But second blush leads to this: Jack’s looking at patterns to forcast into the near future again.
Nanotubes, American opinions on jurisprudence and torture, reporters. It all looks like you’re trying to see where things may go in 10 years based on where we are now. Looking at things rather horizontally(with the many pathways leading away from causitive events) instead of vertically(norrow focus on the event).
But that’s just me(and not being a TNR subsciber skewed the results).
Hey Jack, could you change the wording of the Catholic link, please? Lurkers who don’t actually follow the link could get the wrong impression and think it evidence for ammo in knee jerk Catholic bashing as it is worded now. I know you didn’t write it, and I’m not blaming you for it, but it can be misleading.
By ry on 03.29.06 01:58