…has been on a roll lately. First, he has the true-lie confessions of a special forces impersonator. And now, he provides us with the inevitable response of the “reality-based community” (I can never type that phrase without cracking up) to the fact that “Hot-Air America” (to use Ralph Nader’s wonderful phrase) is swirling down the bowl. Go read about 1-900-REALITY:
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…in the western world than George Galloway?
What part of “Congress shall make no law” do the these morons not understand? It’s right up there, in the first words of Amendment Numero Uno.
Allen “co-sponsored legislation in March that would bring political Web sites under campaign finance rules if they spend $5,000 or more on their operations,” the paper wrote. “He said he would watch how blogs factor into the 2006 races under the FEC rules before deciding whether to press the issue.”
It’s Towel Day. Do you know where yours is?
That’s how long it’s been since Kennedy’s speech in which he committed the nation to send men to the moon, and return them safely to earth, before the decade was out. A little over eight years later, the job was accomplished, with a dozen men walking on the moon over a period of three and a half years. It’s been over a third of a century since the last footprints were made.
…but I get tired of hearing the phrase “clash of civilizations.” There’s nothing civilized about fundamentalist Islam. Wafa Sultan agrees:
Wafa Sultan: The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on other hand. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them like human beings. What we see today is not a clash of civilizations. Civilizations do not clash, but compete.
[…]
Host: I understand from your words that what is happening today is a clash between the culture of the West, and the backwardness and ignorance of the Muslims?
Wafa Sultan: Yes, that is what I mean.
…but I get tired of hearing the phrase “clash of civilizations.” There’s nothing civilized about fundamentalist Islam. Wafa Sultan agrees:
Wafa Sultan: The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on other hand. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them like human beings. What we see today is not a clash of civilizations. Civilizations do not clash, but compete.
[…]
Host: I understand from your words that what is happening today is a clash between the culture of the West, and the backwardness and ignorance of the Muslims?
Wafa Sultan: Yes, that is what I mean.
…but I get tired of hearing the phrase “clash of civilizations.” There’s nothing civilized about fundamentalist Islam. Wafa Sultan agrees:
Wafa Sultan: The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on other hand. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them like human beings. What we see today is not a clash of civilizations. Civilizations do not clash, but compete.
[…]
Host: I understand from your words that what is happening today is a clash between the culture of the West, and the backwardness and ignorance of the Muslims?
Wafa Sultan: Yes, that is what I mean.
TCS Daily is on Al Gore’s case.
Gregg Easterbrook (who seems to be better at this stuff than he is at space policy) pans the “documentary” as well.
[Update on Thursday morning]
How Kyoto held back progress in solving the problem.
[Another update]
Al Gore’s penguin army.
[Late morning update]
Editor Nick Schulz responds to “rebuttals” to the TCS Daily piece.