Archive for the ‘Morality’ Category
Microtrends = history
by Josh “Mark Penn literally wrote the book on Microtrends, but this election is about a macrotrend.” So said Sir Martin Sorrell of the global media conglomerate the WPP Group to Arianna Huffington last month. Now Godzilla is gone, and it’s time for the pundits to size up his legacy, and the legacy of the [...]
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Tags: hope, Mark Penn, meaningless pablum, Obama, the future
In defense of fighting
by Mike Dob A few months ago (December I think) Esquire Magazine published an article in which the author promoted the practice of punching assholes in the face as a mechanism for maintaining a mannerly society. In a subsequent issue of the same magazine, Chuck Klosterman wrote a piggyback piece putting forward his theory that [...]
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by Josh Grumpum – [gruhmp - uhm] n. A species of pungent man-bear, hirsute, weighing between 200-350 lbs., with proud Norse heritage, but an incongruous nasally voice. Can be identified by its call – “dooncha-knooow,” and “Minnissoooootah” – or by its habit of mumbling incomprehensible gibberish when exerting itself – “grumpum grumpum grumpum.” Most often [...]
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“But what if it just slips?”
by achitophel In all fairness to Texas, I think the legal code’s been updated or invalidated since this program aired. But it remains educational (and at times hilarious) nonetheless. And let me also say that I don’t blame this malicious nonsense on Texas, relgion, or the Republican party per se. Rather, I blame it all [...]
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moral dilemma
by Achitophel I believe moral dilemmas exist, I just don’t believe in them personally. As far as I can tell, the snare is always about what a person believes he or she ought to do (according to Mom, Dad, doctrine, Howie Mandel, or the voices), rather than what she or he can do ethically. And [...]
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