Word: argument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...herring worth addressing at the outset is the failure to distinguish between homosexuality and pedophilia, which creates a false parallel at the core of the Times' argument. A double standard would be in effect had the media ignored a situation where two gay men killed a straight man for being straight. But sex with children is a crime regardless of the sexes involved, and is not synonymous with homosexuality. Brown and Carpenter were roommates, and the details of their relationship have not been revealed, but evidence taken from their house - handwritten fantasy scenarios involving children, as well as diagrams...
...Delving into a historical argument, Kirshner admits that, unlike the studies of the universe and cosmetics, astronomy and astrology were actually closely linked at one point. "In the 1600's," Kirshner says, "they were related. [Johannes] Kepler was, in fact, an astrologer...
...However, Kirshner doesn't think this argument will persuade many horoscope readers. "It doesn't matter to them," he says. "It's a system of belief, not a scientific thing... It's outside organized religion, but it has all the trappings of it. It has ceremony, it has ritual, it has books of authority that are not unquestionable...
...sign punning a player's name on one screen, and on the other, is that blinking arrow, now pointing to "FM." A few forgettable moments later, the pins are reset. And while a slightly less enthusiastic computerized stick figure performs in the background, Putnam eases us into his argument about the deficit of social capital...
...sense the flyer was silly, even meaningless. Blasphemy is to speak disrespectfully of religion. The dictionary says so. To give it a new meaning is a little like Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking-Glass pretending to Alice that "glory" means "a nice knock-down argument." Pretending that blasphemy is denying one's dreams is as logical as claiming that extortion is a weak cup of tea or that homeopathy is picking up the telephone with one's foot. But of course what the author really meant is that desiring passionately is an infinitely more important thing that being mindful...