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• in Politics
  The Right Wing Celebration of 'Dumbassery' and the Danger it Presents to America
  It's not being a dumbass that's the problem. Being proud of it. That's the problem.
  by parkypundit / on Jan 17, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “discourse”

 

• Air Time Matters: Speak Up in the First Five Minutes of a Meeting

  
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  Women’s expertise, influence, and impact in work and school settings continue to be undervalued. Marvin Shaw More than thirty years ago, University of Florida’s Marvin Shaw observed that participation in small group approximates the 80/20 Principle : In a 5 member team, 2 members make 70% of ...
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• Legitimate reasons to be outraged at Obama (Benghazi and IRS not among them)

  
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  Legitimate reasons to be outraged at Obama (Benghazi and IRS not among them) If you’ve been following mainstream media (or just Fox News) lately, you’re probably aware of the recent increase in Republican ire. While it’d be legitimate to ask “When are the Republicans not full of ire, especially with respect ...
  1 week ago

• The power of positive thinking?

  
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  Prime Minister Abe Shinzō Abe spoke with Jonathan Tepperman, managing editor of  Foreign Affairs  this month in an interview published under the heading "Japan Is Back." The interview is fairly comprehensive, discussing Abenomics and Japans economic problems, history issues, territorial disputes, the ...
  1 week ago

• Suburban Metal Dad #268. Communication II.

  
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  Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday.  Click the pic to enlarge.  Do you hate when people answer your question for too late?  Tell us in the comments section!
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• AmazeNews: At the Mercy of “Brother Emperor”

  
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  Qiwen Lu ( 奇闻录 , AmazeNews ) gathers “news of the weird” from China. It was voted Best Blog in Chinese in Deutsche Welle’s 2013 BOBS awards. The AmazeNews story below was first posted on May 8 as part of the ongoing series Scenes from the Golden Age ( 盛世一景 ). CDT Chinese carries all ...
  2 weeks ago

• a welcome breath of fresh air

  
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  Any long-time participant in the ongoing debate surrounding "gun control" and the unjust abrogations of our basic, Constitutionally-protected human rights will be familiar with the phrase Reasoned Discourse , but for those newcomers to the field, allow me to give you a short-and-sweet summation of the idea. Of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Essential Internet Product: Troll-B-Gone! (Kenny Pick Ad Parody)

  
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  Ever wade into the comments section of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, or virtually any news/info/blog site out there, and see the amazing lack of humanity there? Do you also notice similarly worded, badly reasoned arguments? Ever wish you could just converse and argue like a normal person? Well, now you can with ...
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• Building a Better Student: The H Word

  
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  It was the lunch hour, and the sandwich shop was packed. Men and women from nearby businesses lined up to order, along with a sizable collection of students from the high school just down the block. Both groups pretended that the other wasn’t there. While munching on my sandwich I overheard an animated conversation ...
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• St George Farage and the mainstream party dragons: political communication in the age of austerity

  
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  Mine’s a pint of euro-scepticism In the not so distant past if we were discussing political communications trends we might talk about Facebook and Barack Obama, or Twitter and #IagreewithNick’. Today I want to look at Nigel Farage and the George and Dragon pub. [You can see the slides for this talk here ] ...
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• Democracy in Retreat: Joshua Kurlantzick paints a picture of global decline.

  
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  Though we may be uncertain of when or how it will come about, there exists a common assumption amongst Western leaders that democracy will eventually triumph worldwide. It is an idea which has dominated Western political discourse since the end of the Cold War and one which continues to dictate foreign policy, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Once again, a plea for civility in the comments

  
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  I don’t often check the comments, so have to come to rely on readers’ e-mails to learn what is going on in this or that thread.  While I do occasionally hear of a substantive (or otherwise interesting) exchange, more often than not, I learn of one commenter responding to another not with arguments but with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Discourse org On Appfog

  
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  I would like an instance of the Discourse org forum software to be configured in an free AppFog account A custom domain will be provided as the entry point for the forum A document with instructions screenshots of how the AppFog account was configured needs to be created… Required Skills: Linux, PostgreSQL, Ruby, ...
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• Verbal Consent to Sex and The Vampire Diaries

  
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  Research has shown that college students largely think that asking for sexual consent — “Do you want to have sex?” — “ruins the mood.”  This is partly because it violates their sexual script, the norms and expectations that guide sexual encounters. If explicit consent violates the sexual script, then ...
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• We men need to own up to our role in sexual violence

  
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  We men need to own up to our role in sexual violence We have a serious problem in this country. “Which one?” you might ask glibly. Today we’re going to talk about what is perhaps the most serious problem in the United States – rape and sexual assault. I’m not the first to the raise the clarion call on this ...
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• Three things Christians should remember about public debate

  
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  A s cultural debates continue to roll regarding the sanctity of human life, validity of same-sex marriage, the acceptance of infanticide, genetic modification and–coming to a theater near you–whatever is next, it is crystal clear that many self-identified Christians are ill equipped for public debate. This is not ...
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• Review: ‘How New and Assertive is China’s New Assertiveness’ by Alastair Iain Johnston, Spring 2013

  
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  [This review is part of a new experiment. I have read for general impressions, main points, and potentially useful material for myself and others. This is not a detailed methodological or theoretical examination, nor is it a conscientious summary. I have tried to consider both specialist and generalist audiences. ...
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• The Tsarnayevs I Know

  
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  The Tsarnayevs I Know Today the subjectiv is pleased to present a special guest post from a friend of the blog, Rachel Atwood, who informs us with an unique perspective on the Tsarnayevs and immigration. When news broke that the suspected perpetrators were Chechens of Kyrgyzstani origins, a huge pit formed in the ...
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• Netizen Voices: After Quake, Poem for Red Cross

  
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  Chinese netizens have not forgotten Guo Meimei , the young woman who showed off designer handbags and flashy cars on Weibo in 2011, then claimed she was the “general manager of Red Cross commerce.” Though plagued by previous scandals, Guo Meimei struck a heavy blow to the Red Cross Society of China. In the ...
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• Saying of the Week: I’m Late.

  
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  The  Word of the Week  comes from China Digital Space’s  Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon , a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to mock and subvert the official language around ...
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• Kalam is forbidden in Islam — Why it’s difficult to reason with terrorists…

  
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  ” Wisdom tells me I am nothing . Love tells me I am everything Between the two my life flows..”                                                                                                – Rumi ...
  4 weeks ago

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