Andrew Sullivan wrote:—which, as far as I'm concerned, is an anti-intellectual stance if there ever was one.
Is this the same Andrew Sullivan who told Sam Harris during a debate with him on the Beliefnet website that no amount of evidence would ever get him to budge on his Christian beliefs because the emotional experiences he's gone through has convinced him of the religion's absolute truth?
That's not to excuse Ms. Jacoby; it's just humorous who's accusing her of a clear-cut case of anti-intellectualism.
Or do I misunderstand that label?
If The Infinity Program were not a forum, it would be a pie-in-the-sky project. “Faith is both the prison and the open hand.”— Vienna Teng, "Augustine."
Probably. He's gay, but also staunchly Catholic. He coined the terms "Christianist" to refer to Domionionists, who he's against; he's a South Park Republican.
If The Infinity Program were not a forum, it would be a pie-in-the-sky project. “Faith is both the prison and the open hand.”— Vienna Teng, "Augustine."
Lord Poe wrote:No, no, FUCK no. This texting crap is this decade's "ebonics". When I get comments on my Youtube videos like, "Wut music r u using?" I want to kick babies in the face.
That really jumped out at me too. Text messaging instead of reading books making people MORE literate? The writer doesn't even TRY to support this claim.
Yes, he does. The place where he says that is a link, to this article. The MSNBC page that links to is unfortunately a dead link, but he does attempt to support that claim. The problem is that the claim that it makes them more comfortable 'expressing themselves using written means' is not the same as claiming it makes them more literate. They clearly aren't.
Darth Wong wrote:No, the Britons on this board do that, and we all know why. It's a country of drunkards and soccer hooligans who still think they can look down their noses at the rest of us for our lack of "culture".
No, there are drunkards and soccer hooligans, but they don't comprise the entire country, though they do make up far too bloody much of it.
There's nothing wrong with a social drink, though I've never understood the people who say crap like "I'm going out to get pissed". So, you want to boast about ending up puking in the street? That's some achievement.
And as for those who treat soccer as a religion, as someone with no interest in sport at all, I'm afraid I just don't understand it.
And to Lord Poe...I agree about the texting, especially on internet boards. I saw one site where a guy wrote a huge article, almost all of which was in text speak, It was like reading a new bloody code.
Don't Move you're surrounded by Armed Bastards - Gene Hunt's attempt at Diplomacy
I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own - Number 6
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
