Anomalous Data - Crazy, Rambling, Nut-Bag book award. Vote Now!

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Crazy, Rambling, Nut-Bag book award. Vote Now!

Crazy, rambling, nut-bag book award contestants:

1. John Coleman (leading AGW denier, weatherman, and founder of The Weather Channel) is nominated for his book: One World Order:Socialist Dictatorship.

2. Rev. Scott Lively is nominated for his book: The Pink Swatika

I nominate these two books to compete against each other, because of their flamboyant style of historical revisionism, their bold cherry-picking of facts, the virtuosity of the authors in re-interpreting both the significance and meaning of the events they cite...and their nearly identical stylistic choice of running through a dizzying number of unrelated or tenuously related names and unsupported assertions in the first chapter. (ie: Beatix Potter was in on it! She was married to that dude, who knew the other one, who went to school with this guy who once said something that sounded communist! and she wrote books for CHILDREN! the children! Oh dear God, won't someone think of the children?) - Sorry...couldn't resist. Beatrice Potter - Webb... not Beatrix Potter. :-)

The catagories are

1. Crazy (unfounded in rational order and scholarship)

2. Rambling (unfocused in argument and approach)

3. Nut-bag (dependant upon conspiracy).

You can vote for one or the other in each catagory.

Saturday, June 21, 2008 10:18:55 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00) | Comments [6] | Those Wacky Fundies

Monday, June 23, 2008 12:10:13 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

I tried, Teresa, really. But I just could make it to page 20 of either one!

BORING!

How you could stay awake long enough to even get to the fact cherry-picking is a testament to your tenacity. I sure couldn't do it.

Who cares about gays in the Nazi movement, anyway? Gays/Lesbians have been around forever. If you search long enough, you're sure to find that they "permiate" every political movement. Big deal.

I get the feeling you don't like Coleman's book because, deep down, you are somewhat of a socialist. Not a full blown socialist, but many of your thoughts on politics certainly lean in that direction.

Mark

Monday, June 23, 2008 12:43:18 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Mark,

Define Socialist, and I'll let you know.

If Thomas Payne was a socialist...then I guess I'm guilty.

Teresa

Monday, June 23, 2008 2:00:29 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

How good can _One World Order:Socialist Dictatorship_ be? Coleman's chapter on the Brightest Stars in the American Socialist Firmament didn't even include Barry Obama. How could he miss him? Such poor research on Coleman's part. ;-)

"If Thomas Payne was a socialist...then I guess I'm guilty."

Never was much for his plan of government. I am quite glad his plan lost out to that of Adams. Payne's dislike for the judicial branch (which he saw as a mere wrench in the works of government which would turn much more efficiently without such a hindrance) combined with his support for a unicameral legislature and a very weak executive would have screwed the pooch of separation of powers and checks and balances. :-) Thomas Payne, that crazy populist.

John

Monday, June 23, 2008 3:40:01 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

I was more referring to his concept that misfortune suffered by individuals but caused by our society should be solved/addressed by our society through the tool of government. (still leaving personal misfortune to be solved by acts of private charity)

Mark frequently objects to my distictions between social justice and charity.

Most of Paine's commentary on law that I have read had to do with his objection to the death penalty and the tendancy of the British government to use the criminal justice system as a remedy to problems that were actually social ills beyond the control of those who were being punished.

As he wasn't a lawyer or a judge I don't rely too heavily on him for commentary on what the structure of the legal system should be.

:-)

Teresa

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 2:05:12 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

You should check out my latest post. ;-) I think you would enjoy Freecycle.

John

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:10:17 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

John,

I saw it, I've just not commented yet. Yeah, Freecycle is cool.

Teresa

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