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Posts starting November 27 2004:

Ben Regenspan Happy New Year! 4:30AM EST Saturday, 1/1/2005 [link to this item]

Hopefully the Justice Department will hold to its anti-torture New Year's resolution; it'll make it all the more easy to follow through with my "being less cynical" one.

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan So that's why there are so few conservatives in academia... 2:11AM EST Thursday, 12/30/2004 [link to this item]

Overheard by Dr. Teresa Whitehurst:
"The only trouble with David Lipscomb (a conservative Christian college nearby) is that old man Lipscomb apparently didn't like football. So we don't have a football team, but we have a great faculty."

"But you do have to be careful about one thing," he said more quietly, coming closer and speaking in hushed tones, "My professor-I have this great professor-told me that you have to be careful not to get too much education, because you could lose your foundation, your core values."

The neophyte nodded solemnly, his eyebrows raised with worry.

"If you get a bachelors," the seasoned student reassured, "you'll probably be okay. But my professor said that when you get a master's, and definitely if you go beyond that, you can lose your values. He said that college students have to be watchful because if you get too much education, you could turn LIBERAL. He's seen it happen to a lot of good Christians." (via Corrente)

Luckily some on the radical right have proven capable of both studying at Cornell and retaining their "values", as evidenced by the lovely season's greetings at the top of Ann Coulter's website:
To The People Of Islam:
Just think: If we'd invaded your countries, killed your leaders and converted you to Christianity YOU'D ALL BE OPENING CHRISTMAS PRESENTS RIGHT ABOUT NOW!
Merry Christmas
"ALL" except for this little guy, what with us having blown his arms off and everything.

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan Disaster victims need your support 11:24PM EST Sunday, 12/26/2004 [link to this item]

Bob Harris has the lowdown on how to help out the many thousands who've been displaced or hurt in the tsunami disaster. Doctors Without Borders is, as usual, one of the organizations meriting whatever support that you can give at this time.

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan 2:58AM EST Friday, 12/24/2004 [link to this item]

Nice new holiday Xquzyphyr & Overboard comic at xoverboard.com...

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan ACLU finds evidence Bush authorized torture 5:02AM EST Tuesday, 12/21/2004 [link to this item]

Ben Regenspan 7:21PM EST Thursday, 12/16/2004 [link to this item]

Ben Regenspan New to the blogroll: Semitism.net 1:36AM EST Thursday, 12/9/2004 [link to this item]

Via Israel Peace Weblog, I just ran into Semitism.net for the first time. Finding this well-spoken Jewish voice for peace was one of the best Chanukah presents I could possibly have (cheesy but true), and I really recommend you bookmark it, too.

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan Your Shtetl-Pass is revoked, Mr. Brooks 1:44AM EST Wednesday, 12/8/2004 [link to this item]

I doubt it's healthy to keep obsessing over David Brooks, but dammit - I thought we people (the ones who light seven candles) ran the media. Apparently we do a pretty piss-poor job of it, because my brothers...
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-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan Happy Chanukah/Hannukah/whatever! 11:20PM EST Tuesday, 12/7/2004 [link to this item]

Some holiday cheer from Bill O'Reilly:
CALLER: I agree with what you've been saying recently -- you're concerned about the secularization of Christmas and -- I'm concerned about the secularization of Jews and about the -- and Christmas going into schools.

When I was growing up -- I'm Jewish, but I was not in a very Jewish area. There were some Jews there but, I was kind of -- grew up with a resentment because I felt that people were trying to convert me to Christianity --

O'REILLY: Were they?

...

CALLER: The thing is, is when you have -- for example, Christmas carols or gift exchanges being done in school, that kind of sets the kids up to being converted.

O'REILLY: Yeah, but you give gifts on Hanukkah, don't you?

CALLER: No, there's not really a Jewish tradition of giving gifts on --

O'REILLY: Well, the seven candles [sic], you get a gift for every night, don't you?

CALLER: Actually, the Jews give gifts on --

O'REILLY: All right. Well, what I'm tellin' you, [caller], is I think you're takin' it too seriously. You have a predominantly Christian nation. You have a federal holiday based on the philosopher Jesus. And you don't wanna hear about it? Come on, [caller] -- if you are really offended, you gotta go to Israel then. I mean because we live in a country founded on Judeo -- and that's your guys' -- Christian, that's my guys' philosophy. But overwhelmingly, America is Christian. And the holiday is a federal holiday honoring the philosopher Jesus. So, you don't wanna hear about it? Impossible.

OK, then. I already knew you were a prick, so you can count on my Christmas gift still coming. But I think you probably just lost some brownie points with the ADL.

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan Thank God for abstinence-only sex education. 4:00PM EST Monday, 12/6/2004 [link to this item]

A report on abstinence-only sex education programs was recently released by Representative Henry Waxman's office. Among the piles of federally-funded bullshit it dug up:
  • This widely-used curriculum package asserts: "At 43 days, electrical brain wave patterns can be recorded, evidence that mental activity is taking place. This new life may be thought of as a thinking person."
  • "Fertilization (or conception) occurs when one of the father’s sperm unites with the mother’s ovum (egg). At this instant a new human life is formed."
  • "Condoms appear to reduce the risk of heterosexual HIV infection by only 69%"
  • From WhykNOw, used in 19 states, we learn: "The typical failure rate for the male condom is 14% in preventing pregnancy."
  • "Women gauge their happiness and judge their success by their relationships. Men’s happiness and success hinge on their accomplishments."
  • "The father gives the bride to the groom because he is the one man who has had the responsibility of protecting her throughout herlife. He is now giving his daughter to the only other man who will take over this protective role."
  • "Twenty-four chromosomes from the mother and twenty-four chromosomes from the father join to create this new individual." (who apparently has a very bad genetic disorder...)
  • The WAIT Training program teaches: "tears" and "sweat" can transmit HIV
    Just as a woman needs to feel a man’s devotion to her, a man has a primary need to feel a woman’s admiration. To admire a man is to regardhim with wonder, delight, and approval. A man feels admired when his unique characteristics and talents happily amaze her.
  • Women need "financial support; men need "domestic support".

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan "...be polite and do not poke them with sticks" 1:23AM EST Monday, 12/6/2004 [link to this item]

The New York Times sometimes has better ways of being funny than unironically distributing the opinions of David Brooks. Take this nifty chart of spinoffs on Cobb County, GA's evolution textbook disclaimer stickers, for instance:
This book offers Intelligent Design as an explanation for life on earth. Although this book has a really cute animal on its cover, the author is a lunatic with a faith-based approach to logic. Please consider the book with an open mind, and then quickly move your children to a different school district.

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan "Even Jews like Christmas" -Jerry Falwell 3:09AM EST Friday, 12/3/2004 [link to this item]

Christmas is under attack: Macy's stores haven't been putting up "Merry Christmas" signs as of late. Of course, it may not seem like such a big deal now, but should this trend continue Christmas and its merchandise could become completely verboten in the commercial world, and then the holiday would have to revert to being a celebration of Jesus or something.

-Ben | Comments

Gilbert Wesley Purdy Words Brushed by Music 7:13PM EST Wednesday, 12/1/2004 [link to this item]

New book review of Superpatriotism just posted

click here.

 
Superpatriotism

-GWP | Comments

Ben Regenspan Nice try, Dave, but you're going down with the rest of us 2:46PM EST Tuesday, 11/30/2004 [link to this item]

David Brooks continues his pattern of reaching a new low twice a week, this time cozying up to a "rational" Christian Zionist:
It is a voice that is friendly, courteous and natural ... Stott's mission is to pierce through all the encrustations and share direct contact with Jesus ...

Stott is so embracing it's always a bit of a shock - especially if you're a Jew like me - when you come across something on which he will not compromise ... He does not accept homosexuality as a legitimate lifestyle, and of course he believes in evangelizing among nonbelievers. He is pro-life and pro-death penalty, even though he is not a political conservative on most issues.

Yes, he's "embracing". He believes that you are going to burn in hell, Mr. Brooks, along with the rest of us Jewish people, unless he converts you. But if he can't convert you he'll keep sweet-talking you anyway, because for him to achieve the Rapture our people have to form Greater Israel and force all the Arabs and Palestinians out of the territory, and he sees that you're probably dumb-assed enough to support such a notion if the right person whispers it in your ear. He and his friends will keep handing over whatever cash they can milk from their supporters to "our" organizations, because his entire ideology is predicated on us going to Israel, triggering the apocalypse, and then suffering for eternity. If you don't believe the "suffering for eternity" thing applies to us under the Christian Zionist worldview, here's a quote from your friend Mr. Stott which could clarify things:
some Christians have attempted to develop a theological basis for leaving Jews alone in their Judaism. Reminding us that God's covenant with Abraham was an “everlasting covenant”, they maintain that it is still in force, and that therefore God saves Jewish people through their own covenant, without any necessity for them to believe in Jesus...
Romans 11 stands in clear opposition to this trend because of its insistence on the fact that there is only one olive tree, to which Jews and Gentile believers both belong (qtd. here)

Update: Sorry Mr. Brooks, I got one thing wrong - Mr. Stott is "rational" enough that he believes God will only annihilate us impenitent: "I also believe that the ultimate annihilation of the wicked should at least be accepted as a legitimate, biblically founded alternative to their eternal conscious torment" (qtd. here). I too applaud John Stott for his compassionate view of things.

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan Ugh... 4:26PM EST Saturday, 11/27/2004 [link to this item]

Lovely, it seems someone's hacked Catalyzer. Only the main page is affected however, and most people visit through this blog's address. Hopefully I can get things fixed soon. All better.

-Ben | Comments

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