links for 2006-08-21
by limbic on August 22, 2006
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Good article on books, films, TV and other things that have a cult following
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Sawatsky’s rules are simple, but he says they get broken all the time: Don’t ask yes-or-no questions, keep questions short and avoid charged words, which can distract people. In his seminar, Sawatsky points to Mike Wallace of CBS’ 60 Minutes and CNN
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David Hume wrote that reason is a “slave to the emotions.” But new research suggests that in our moral decision-making, reason and emotion duke it out within the mind.
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Iranian earthquake victims and those who lost out in the Iran/Iraq war lose out to Hezbollah as Iran openly admits it is flaunting the ceasefire agreements in preparation for “the next round”
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or the last 40 years, government policy in Britain, de facto if not always de jure, has been to render the British population virtually defenseless against criminals and criminality. Almost alone of British government policies, this one has been supremely
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Robert Hughes’s wife, Danne, gave him a strain of the clap that she’d likely picked up from Jimi Hendrix. It was so antibiotic resistant, it almost outlived Hendrix himself…
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“a return to the Dark Ages, the tips of whose shadows are coldly falling upon us even now”
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Shahid Malik, the Labour MP, explains why he told fellow Muslims that if they don’t like Britain they should pack their bags
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Frank Field - one of labour’s smartest MPs speaks up about immigration
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