Via the "stuff that's been sitting in my browser for a while" file, from
HuffPo:
And now there's the new study linking conservative ideologies to "low-effort" thinking. [...]
Bar patrons were asked about social issues before blowing into a Breathalyzer. As it turned out, the political viewpoints of patrons with high blood alcohol levels were more likely to be conservative than were those of patrons whose blood alcohol levels were low.
But it wasn't just the alcohol talking, according to the statement. When the researchers conducted similar interviews in the lab, they found that people who were asked to evaluate political ideas quickly or while distracted were more likely to express conservative viewpoints.
"Keeping people from thinking too much...or just asking them to deliberate or consider information in a cursory manner can impact people's political attitudes, and in a way that consistently promotes political conservatism," Dr. Eidelman said in the email.
Hmm. Just ... hmm.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2009:
Boy, we knew that Obama's inexperience would soon catch up to him, causing him to make an error as egregious as this one, as Lincoln Diaz-Balart points out:
Advocates for Castro [at the Summit of the Americas], [s]omehow, they knew that President Obama would refer to Castro’s totalitarian fiefdom as 'Cuba.'
Yup, can you believe that Obama called the nation of Cuba, well, "Cuba"? He should've known better. That's what we get for electing someone so inexperienced and naive as Obama! Of course, I'm not sure what this says about Diaz-Balart himself, as Giancarlo Sopo notes:
Even for Lincoln Diaz-Balart, this is nutty, especially since he himself referred to Cuba as ‘Cuba’ four times in his speech (:12, 1:30, 3:05, 3:18). I wonder if this implies now that he is no longer a Cuban-American congressman, but rather ‘the totalitarian Castro fiefdomite congressman from Miami?’ Should CANF change its name now to the Totalitarian Castro Fiefdom-American National Foundation?
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