Out of the thousands of employees at the Disney Corporation, nobody thought that Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor presented an awkward acronym? No? Just me?
Nevermind.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Are You Sure About That?
Out of the thousands of employees at the Disney Corporation, nobody thought that Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor presented an awkward acronym? No? Just me?
Nevermind.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
David Frum - Goofy Then, Goofy Now
From Digby's blog comes this bit of intellectual offal from David Frum:
David Frum, American Enterprise Institute and National Review
Whether he personally believes in evolution: "I do believe in evolution."
What he thinks of intelligent design: "If intelligent design means that evolution occurs under some divine guidance, I believe that."
How evolution should be taught in public schools: "I don't believe that anything that offends nine-tenths of the American public should be taught in public schools. ... Christianity is the faith of nine-tenths of the American public. ... I don't believe that public schools should embark on teaching anything that offends Christian principle."
So not only are Christians homogenous in their beliefs, to offend them with scientific truth would be untoward.
But true to form, Jonah Goldberg takes the prize for most hypocritial right-wing stance:
I see nothing [wrong] with having teachers pay some attention to the sensitivities of other people in the room. I think if that means you're more careful about some issues than others that's fine. People are careful about race and gender; I don't see why all of a sudden we can't be diplomatic on these issues when it comes to religion.
Like being sensitive to Muslim values. I am sure he meant them too.
David Frum, American Enterprise Institute and National Review
Whether he personally believes in evolution: "I do believe in evolution."
What he thinks of intelligent design: "If intelligent design means that evolution occurs under some divine guidance, I believe that."
How evolution should be taught in public schools: "I don't believe that anything that offends nine-tenths of the American public should be taught in public schools. ... Christianity is the faith of nine-tenths of the American public. ... I don't believe that public schools should embark on teaching anything that offends Christian principle."
So not only are Christians homogenous in their beliefs, to offend them with scientific truth would be untoward.
But true to form, Jonah Goldberg takes the prize for most hypocritial right-wing stance:
I see nothing [wrong] with having teachers pay some attention to the sensitivities of other people in the room. I think if that means you're more careful about some issues than others that's fine. People are careful about race and gender; I don't see why all of a sudden we can't be diplomatic on these issues when it comes to religion.
Like being sensitive to Muslim values. I am sure he meant them too.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
High Crimes Against Language
Today's writing travesty comes from no less an august body than the Sympatico/MSN disaster of a web page. Here is the headlne:
George Clooney tried to help out some honeymooners in Las Vegas - but allegedly almost ended up accidentally killing them.
Just let that roll around in your head for a bit. Oooh, feels bad, doesn't it.
To save you time, here is the story. Clooney paid for a couple's helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon. There were strong winds and the trip was aborted. So this means that Clooney allegedly, almost, maybe, sorta, tried to have them killed. By accident. So it's a non-story, made delicious by the painful headline.
Hey, Bang Media (the source of the story) is hiring. Turns out proficiency in English is not a requirement. Or web coding.
George Clooney tried to help out some honeymooners in Las Vegas - but allegedly almost ended up accidentally killing them.
Just let that roll around in your head for a bit. Oooh, feels bad, doesn't it.
To save you time, here is the story. Clooney paid for a couple's helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon. There were strong winds and the trip was aborted. So this means that Clooney allegedly, almost, maybe, sorta, tried to have them killed. By accident. So it's a non-story, made delicious by the painful headline.
Hey, Bang Media (the source of the story) is hiring. Turns out proficiency in English is not a requirement. Or web coding.
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