Sep. 27th, 2002

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TalkLeft on the Jogger case, with facts and law and stuff.

OK, I'm seeing police misconduct, rush to judgment, and prosecutorial misbehavior.

I don't see anything that makes me question my first reaction.

Personally, I'm satisfied.

Oh, hee.

Sep. 27th, 2002 11:46 am
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Fanatical Apathy (via Eschaton) on the self-evident proposition that the people of Cobb C0unty, a group which repeatedly inflicted Newt Gingrich on America, have not evolved from a lower state of evolutionary development.

Except that's what they voted to teach their kids "after limited discussion" which isn't really funny at all.
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Antidotal, again via Eschaton and Amir Butler, wrote a letter to the editor (here) of the National Post, taking issue with a poorly researched and wildly biased article Mark Steyn wrote defending nativism and bias. (Antidotal is, in the offline world - and on, I suppose - Professor Eric Tam of the Yale University Political Science Department).

Secondly, I was pleasantly surprised by Mr. Tam's missive. In the past year, I've been called a hatemonger thousands of times by various correspondents, but this is one of only a handful to accuse me of factual error. Most sail past anything so prosaic as facts and simply say that the column in question is "hateful." ("No free speech for hate speech!" as they say at Concordia, in between beating up Holocaust survivors.), says Mr. Steyn.

Also this:

So I'm grateful to Mr. Tam. He specifically disputed one fact and he called me a hatemonger. That seems fair enough. Dispute two specific facts and you can take me to the Human Rights Commission. Dispute three specific facts and we'll play your karaoke recording on the National Post Web site:

"Hatemonger, hatemonger,

Mong me some hate..."

But just plain old unsupported cries of "hatemonger"? Save it for your next Concordia riot.


Question: what exactly is Concordia? Is it in New Haven?

Anyway, I think this is a fun new game to play with the cool new Google News Engine or one of these spiffy resources here (Kartoo has a way too cool flash interface). Catch Mark Steyn out on some errors and he'll ritually humiliate himself.

So... it's win a Mark Steyn's Self-Respect! weekend, here on the internet.

Instances of Mr. Steyn's incorrectness should go in the comments section of Mr. Tam's blog.

Thanks for playing.

not a game

Sep. 27th, 2002 01:34 pm
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from an email sent by Ampersand, at Alas, a Blog:

Hi. I'm emailing to ask you to participate in a "blogburst" to generate letters to Congress and local newspapers opposing a unilateral U.S. invasion of Iraq.

A "blogburst" is when many blogs write about the same subject on the same date, and link to a central index so that readers can easily find other participants. The idea behind this blogburst is for both bloggers and readers to write letters to Congress and newspapers on Monday, October 7th. You can read the details at http://www.amptoons.com/openletters/.

One unique thing about this blogburst is that I'm encouraging blog readers to participate, and providing a space to publish their contributions.

If you would like to participate, please email me back (including the URL of your blog, please) and I'll add you to the Open Letters blogroll. You might also consider posting a link to the Open Letters page (www.amptoons.com/openletters/ ) on your blog, although that's definitely not required.

Thanks!

barry@amptoons.com

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