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Original Technorati articles tagged “rhetoric”

• in Politics
  Political Discourse Hasn't Changed in 200 Years
  American politics has always been divisive and always involved violent imagery. Always.
  by robeiae / on Jan 11, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  The Morning After Pill: Whose Right Is It Anyway?
  This article discusses the latest uproar on the emergency morning after pill and the rationale for both arguments.
  by wellnesssultana / on Dec 9, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  Church - The Agent of Change
  Religious rhetoric will never produce change.
  by dd816 / on Feb 12, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “rhetoric”

 

• How Much Tolerance for Intolerance?

  
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  United Nations in Geneva. Photo: wiki commons. Tolerance is justifiably one of liberal Democracy’s most cherished values. But what do we do when tolerance, with its openness to multiple views, permits and even supports intolerance? This is particularly an issue today when open prejudice against Jews and Israel, ...
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• Ben trovato

  
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  Ben trovato: Never let the truth spoil a good story BEN TROVATO Adjectival phrase. Late 19th century. [Italian, literally well found.] Of a story etc.: happily invented; appropriate though untrue. I went to school with a chap named Ben Trovato who was either an exceptionally high achiever or, in a ...
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• "I kid you not: The IRS just released a statement on its improper harassment of conservative groups in the run-up to the 2012 election including the words: mistakes were made."

  
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  Says Instapundit , under the heading "It just gets worse." I see that "Mistakes were made" has its own Wikipedia page : The New York Times has called the phrase a "classic Washington linguistic construct." Political consultant William Schneider suggested that this usage be referred to as the "past exonerative" ...
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• PHD Comics: It’s in the syllabus

  
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    PHD Comics: It’s in the syllabus .
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• Making Infrastructure Visible

  
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• And If Your Head Explodes With Dark Forebodings Too

  
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  Just published on the Postcolonial Digital Humanities ( DHPoco ) website: “ ‘And If Your Head Explodes With Dark Forebodings Too’: The Dark Side of the Digital (Conference Review).” Mark Perry’s article in the Chronicle makes the conference sound too much like a set of grousing sessions on familiar ...
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• Questioning conventional wisdom

  
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  I recommend this fascinating interview with Harvard development economist Dani Rodrik. In his own words, he is someone who has worked from within the economic mainstream (especially where methods are concerned) but has not been afraid to accept logical conclusions that go against conventional wisdom, which is often ...
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• Path-ing Reflection #1

  
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  Sources Read:   Faigley, Lester. "Material Literacy and Visual Design." Rhetorical Bodies . 1999. 171-201. Olson, David R. "From Utterance to Text: The Bias of Language in Speech and Writing. " Harvard Educational Review 47.3 (1977): 257-81. Trimbur, John. "Delivering the Message: Typography and ...
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• Robert Jensen : The Universe Is an Undifferentiated Whole

  
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  In his new "primer on critical thinking," Arguing for Our Lives, Robert Jensen "connects abstract ideas with the everyday political and spiritual struggles of ordinary people."Arguing for our lives: The universe is an undifferentiated wholeThe knowledge we humans can acquire -- while impressive in what it allows us to ...
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• “Over my dead body” on the decline? Is that an optimistic sign for future of immigration reform?

  
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  The Christian Science Monitor came up with an interesting story about why they believe a serious immigration reform proposal actually has a chance of passage. You should read the story for yourselves . But two of the three reasons they give are ones that everybody is using – the 2012 election results and the ...
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• The Myth of American Christians as Persecuted Minority, part 256

  
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  The Myth of American Christians as Persecuted Minority, part 256 The claim that American Christians are facing horrible persecution for their religious beliefs – and are on the verge of being rounded up and thrown into jail by tyrannical secularists – has been a staple of Religious Right ...
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• Book Review: Jesus Is Lord, Caesar Is Not: Evaluating Empire in NT Studies

  
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  Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: IVP Academic (March 28, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 0830839917 ISBN-13: 978-0830839919 Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches IVP Academic Amazon.com Many thanks to IVP Academic for this review copy of Jesus Is Lord, Caesar Is Not: Evaluating Empire ...
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• "I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them. I had an economic system imposed on me."

  
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  Said Lauren Hill, in court.  She also said: "Over-commercialisation and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual." Shes now in jail (for failing to pay $500,000 in taxes). ADDED: Ideas that would work perfectly well in song lyrics can ...
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• “Our story is a story of failed leadership” – Salam Fayyad

  
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  Fatah leaders, including some of those newly elected to the Fatah Central Committee, pray next to the tomb of the late Fatah leader and founder Yasser Arafat, 13 August 2009.  Photo by Omar Rashidi/MaanImages. Fayyad Steps Down, Not Out By Roger Cohen, NY Times May 03, 2013 RAMALLAH–The streets of the ...
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• When Democracy Interferes with Freedom

  
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  No one plans a vacation in Houston – it’s a rather nasty place. There’s a reason their football team is called the Oilers – that’s what the city is about, oil and big money, and it’s hot as hell too. The baseball team is the Astros, named that because NASA put their Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston back ...
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• Collin Brooke’s Twitter Summary of Lingua Fracta

  
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  On May 3, 2013, Collin Brooke (@cgbrooke) took up the challenge of summarizing his book Lingua Franca: Towards a Rhetoric of New Media in a few tweets. The three tweets are as follows: Tweet 1: @kristinarola New media require us to acknowledge that technology and rhetoric are inextricable. #LF Tweet 2 : ...
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• Mad Men: Is the awesomeness of white men really "For Immediate Release"?

  
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  The majority of people watch Mad Men wrong. What do I mean? A translation of last night’s episode, “For Immediate Release,” from their perspective should suffice: With the exception of Matt Zoller Seitz and a few others, the majority of responses to this episode have focused on ...
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• Kevin Bradys misleading Wall St. Journal op-ed

  
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  Todays Wall Street Journal features an op-ed by Kevin Brady, right-wing Texas Republican who chairs the notorious "Joint Economic Committee" that has been a notorious producer of anti-tax propaganda-driven studies over the years of Republican hegemony in the House.  See "Tax Reform Needs Accurate Tax Tables", Wall ...
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• Benching sports metaphors

  
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  Figures of speech are not just ornamentation.  They can shape the way we think about what they express.  Dana Milbank, annoyed with the way Barack Obama  keeps saying everything is a “game-changer,” points out how the use of sports metaphors in discussing politics and government today is distorting the way we ...
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• Jonah Goldberg “traffick[s] in an old theory that was perfectly within the bounds of intellectual discourse not very long ago”

  
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  That theory being, of course, that what he says matters. It doesn’t. But what’s frightening is that in this isolated case , he may be right. (In all others? Not so much .) After trying to apply our new Internet Tradition to what Republicans said on the Sunday talk shows, it occurr e d to me that a weapon ...
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