Shouting down Revelations 13 nonsense

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Thursday October 30, 2008 · 11:35 AM PDT

2008/10/30 · 11:35

My sister is a very active Democrat, with very liberal views, including a healthy hatred of ignorance-based right-wing bigotry. Our parents, sadly, are not this way. My father's wife, who seems like a relatively intelligent woman, forwarded my sister some crap meme email that's going around among the illiberal chain email circuit -- some horseshit about Obama being the anti-christ or something, based on the book of Revelations.

Normally getting a dimwitted forward from your dad's wife isn't something to get steamed about. We just delete and move on. But, the fact that Dad's Wife should thouroughly understand my sister's views about this presidential race, and yet forwarded the mail anyway, is beyond thoughtless.

Sis crafted a wonderful (and withering!) response. This is the real deal, right here...

Update: as pointed out in comments, Snopes has this covered. Not that that matters to those who forward crap like this.

Quacky

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Thursday May 10, 2007 · 10:38 AM PDT

2007/05/10 · 10:38

In a Wikipedia entry on Physical strength, one learns that "[w]hite meat is fast-twitch fiber, while red meat is slow-twitch fiber." So what’s the difference physically?

Red meat from an animal would indicate that it came from body component that is expected to operate for extended periods of time, such as the legs. While white meat conversely comes from body parts that operate for extremely short periods, such as the muscles involved in chicken flight, an activity which doesn’t last long.

That’s really interesting to me, because I’ve been thinking lately about strength, and muscles, and meat, and politics.

I’ve had in mind a sort of manifesto about these topics, especially as they relate to Left Politics. There are a whole bunch of metaphors I want to try to draw together into sort of a formulation about what I feel are the shortcomings of the Left in recent American politics.

I’d call it something like Eat Red Meat For Strength: The Sissified Wussitude of The Vegetarian Left. ...

Quacky

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Tuesday June 20, 2006 · 12:29 AM PDT

2006/06/20 · 00:29

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