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Ageist of the Week | Abstract Nonsense
https://abstractnonsense.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/ageist-of-the-week
Mathematics, liberal politics, and rants about the news of the day. Ageist of the Week. Demonstrates how some people can’t help but display class-A irrationality, regardless of age. In a thread on Feministe, she said,. I am always being told that I should cut you a break because you are young, Alon, but this isn’t a youth problem. This is a reading comprehension problem. I am not doing anything to helpless, innocent words, and what I am talking about cannot in fact be applied to any word or phrase. Kind ...
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Slut Shaming | Abstract Nonsense
https://abstractnonsense.wordpress.com/2006/11/14/slut-shaming
Mathematics, liberal politics, and rants about the news of the day. Used to have a long-distance boyfriend named Rob she talked a lot about on her blog. Two days ago, she lambasted him. For cybering with other girls – I’m not sure when, but I’ll make the charitable assumption that it was when he and Skatje still went out. She says,. Who were willing, since I wasn’t. Deception. Betrayal. Does not compute? 8221; Then Katie posted about the problems with slut-shaming. The precise meaning of “Slut̶...
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Liberal Governments | Abstract Nonsense
https://abstractnonsense.wordpress.com/2006/08/22/liberal-governments
Mathematics, liberal politics, and rants about the news of the day. PZ writes about how because the US Government won’t fund stem cell research, interested billionaires step up to the plates. What I’m more interested in is the assertion contrarian commenter Bob Koepp makes that it is wrong for the government to fund stem cell research because as it is morally controversial, it forced people to pay in taxes for something they hold a legitimate moral beef with. A liberal government is about freedom of cons...
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Priorities Meme | Abstract Nonsense
https://abstractnonsense.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/priorities-meme
Mathematics, liberal politics, and rants about the news of the day. This is something I’ve been intending to do for a while. It goes back to a discussion thread here about political quizzes. I’m genuinely interested in looking at people’s political views. A big part of it is priorities, which is what I want to start with at this time. Simply put, what political issues do you consider the most important? In the US, my priorities are,. Abortion – 15. Iran – 15. Eavesdropping and domestic spying – 13. March...