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SEINFELD SEASONS 5 & 6 By Fall 1993, this sitcom was reaching the apex of its catchphrase-minting cultural power--so much so that mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani made a cameo in an episode about bogus nonfat frozen yogurt. These 46 episodes include "The Puffy Shirt" (in which Jerry agrees to wear a flouncy pirate top on the Today show), and introduced J. Peterman (John O'Hurley, before he danced with the stars) and the concept of "regifting." Seinfeld's best and darkest seasons were just ahead, but no one is likely to regift this set, all the same...
Opponents of the living wage have used an interesting collection of bogus statistics to make it seem like Harvard workers are living lives of luxury. The most common kind of fuzzy math makes two fairly ridiculous assumptions. First, it assumes that Harvard workers are in families with two wage earners working full time. This ignores the fact that many Harvard employees can’t work 40 hours per week. Harvard won’t let them. But even ignoring the exact statistics, it’s worth pointing out that this assumption suggests a moral framework that I would...
...nuclear weapons. Wilson went public with the news that, more than a year earlier, he had privately refuted, on behalf of the CIA, claims about an African connection to Saddam Hussein's alleged WMD arsenal. Wilson suggested that Cheney must have known before the war that the claims were bogus. People who worked with Libby tell TIME that he regarded Wilson's criticisms as part of a wider effort by the CIA to shift blame to the White House for the faulty pre-war claims about Iraq...
...Still, ID'ers will counter, failing to teach kids about the scientific controversy over evolution is tantamount to keeping them ignorant. Except that there is no significant scientific controversy. ID proponents are correct in maintaining that there are legitimate scientists - a relatively tiny handful - who maintain that evolution is bogus science. But you can also find an equivalent handful of legitimate scientists ready to challenge relativity, or quantum physics, or the idea that HIV causes AIDS, or pretty much any widely accepted idea in modern science. A handful of doubters does not a controversy make...
...their good sides." As an example, he cites a snippet of Diamonds from Sierra Leone about his rise to fame: "'Life movin' too fast, I need to slow down/ Girl ain't give me no ass, she need to go down.' All right, that's really crass, right? Really bogus. So what comes next? 'My father been said I need Jesus/ So he took me to church, let the water wash over my Caesar' [haircut]. I go back and forth all the time...