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josh
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posted 24 February 2003 08:59 PM      Profile for josh     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
is a rotten political ideology:

http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=1257


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Michelle
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posted 24 February 2003 09:20 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
That looks like SUCH a good book. Theology, history, and economics combined. Yum!

Great review, too. This alone made me want to read the book:

quote:
This is a book in which all the deserving asses get a proper kicking. Jews who ought to know better (Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and William Kristol); Christian primitives who are easier to forgive because they had no intellectual tradition to abandon (John Hagee, Lester Roloff, and Jerry Falwell); and one of the more bizarre hybrids of the two great faiths (UT professor Marvin Olasky, who is to Judaism as Michael Jackson is to Negritude).

...

But who takes chances on big thinking books these days? Give me a writer who thinks. And who is ecumenically vicious with dangerous right-wing extremists, Gentile and Jew, who exploit the sacred to achieve the profane. I can’t help myself, I just love this stuff.


Amen, brother.


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DrConway
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posted 24 February 2003 10:23 PM      Profile for DrConway     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Curiosity killed the pseudofelinoid.

Anyway, my witty epigram for the day is: "They call it Tex's Ass for a reason...."


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Flowers By Irene
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posted 25 February 2003 03:48 AM      Profile for Flowers By Irene     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Damn, my to-read list just got longer. I'm already in the middle of two books, with two more impatiently gathering dust, and my to-read list is nearing a page in length.
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Michael Hardner
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posted 25 February 2003 07:15 PM      Profile for Michael Hardner   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Seems pretty oversimplified to me. Lyndon Johnson was born and raised in Texas, and was as left-wing as Americans come.

But, GWB is such an easy target, why would anybody go to the effort to write a complex book ?


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Black Dog
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posted 25 February 2003 07:20 PM      Profile for Black Dog   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Seems pretty oversimplified to me. Lyndon Johnson was born and raised in Texas, and was as left-wing as Americans come.
But, GWB is such an easy target, why would anybody go to the effort to write a complex book ?


Granted, LBJ had he stones to pursue domestic policies that even his liberal paragon predecessor shied away from, but the whole "War in Vietnam" thing kind puts a damper on his leftist credentials.

As for Bush being an easy target, well, I think we misunderestimate him at our peril.


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'lance
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posted 25 February 2003 07:35 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I usually don't use smilies, but...


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