Posted on 11/06/2004 5:37:48 AM PST by Clive
Well, that's true for the "Peace Prize", and for the "fuzzy prizes" like "Literature" and maybe "Economics"---but the science prizes (Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine) are still about real accomplishments.
Welcome
I am sure you'll be peppered from time to time with questions about "the other side."
One of Coren's better efforts.
Normally, he annoys me. ;^)
What can I tell you from having been on "the other side" ?That yes, my former fellow Dems say that anyone who votes other than the way they do are "idiots", that everyone who votes for Bush is an Evangelical Born Again who believes that the Second Coming will happen in a couple of years.....blah,blah, blah, you've heard all the cliches.
Honestly, New York City is the most parochial,narrowminded city in America.
makes me want to get a gun rack in m' pick up truck and go huntin'
bttt
You don't think the Nobel prizes are politicized now? You say the prizes are about real accomplishments?
Well compare an Olympic medal with the Nobel prize. The Olympic gymnastics medals are real accomplishments even if the scoring is politicized. Better than that, the gymnasts who get the prize actually are the performers, not the coach, the owners of the gym, or someone who stole a routine. That cannot be said for all the Nobel winners. Think MRI, double-helix.
Not politicized? har. The Nobel both politicized AND corrupt.
oops, post #128 was intended for you also.
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The people of middle America unveiled a vaccine against the disease of liberalism on November 2, 2004. Don't forget to go to the polls for your booster shots every year.
Middle America remembered a time when actors, singers and writers reflected the nation. These performers no longer aspired to reflect but to reshape it in their own narcissistic image. John Kerry was too close to that clan, too much part of the culture of smug assumption. It wasn't George Bush who was the victor last week, but men and women who stood up and announced to the self-defined elites that "the people" is not a concept but a flesh-and-blood reality. And one that bites back.
I disagree. While telling our "betters to shove it" we were doing it FOR President Bush. He was the victor & "they" might as well get over it.
I can't agree about MRI, and I don't know enough about the double-helix controversy to comment.
Yes, Howard Stern. America listened to Stern and his giggling sidekick explain why only a "retard" would vote for George Bush. In between fart noises and references to naked lesbians, this tired peddler of smut made fun of people who spoke with southern accents and voted on "moral issues."
Hehehe.
They may not share his religious beliefs or cultural inclinations, but he's still 'one of their guys' more than any pantsy waisted fem like J F'n Kerry.
Woohoo! Great article - thanks for posting!
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