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...Center for Independent Studies, a Sydney free-market think tank, Rudd politely ripped into the group's spiritual godfather, Friedrich von Hayek, who had no place in his schema for social justice: "I believe the center of gravity of Australian politics has always had about it a deep skepticism about fundamentalist ideologies of either the right or the left...
Standing in the Harvard-Yale tailgate, I was struck by the feeling that the event was less of a party and more of a “de-beer-iterized zone.” Hordes of police looked over the students standing ankle-deep in muck and surrounded by the Great Wall of Porta-Potties (undoubtedly erected to keep out the Mongolians, ie. undergraduates, with their public-urination ways...
...This leaves us wondering why this myth constantly gets recycled. Myths take on a life of their own when they express a deep fear. As long as we hang on to that fear, the myth will haunt us. In this case, we fear our children won't have anything like the nice life we have. Parents worry that their best efforts for their children might not be enough. Despite all those rides to soccer practice, and all those nights checking homework, and all that money spent on college, the real world is simply too competitive and too expensive...
...about Tennessee Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr., which had a white woman saying, "Harold, call me"? While it did not seem to me to be as devastating and as racist as I would think in first reviewing it, after having Southerners - white and black - share with me the deep-seated fear whites [have] of black men and white women, I then came to the conclusion that the ad meant to do harm from racial implication...
...enlightenment and free communication, do we really want to wipe out the work of the satirists who shove and cajole, who take language and thought by the throat and force us to confront with wit and guile what most refuse to face? We need this word. Relax. Take a deep breath. It's gonna be cool. Two syllables. Six letters. It's not the word, only the fear that needs to be put aside...