hell’s handmaiden

You can tell a lot about a person by the way he uses language. Bush’s use of it is consistently… hmm, childish.

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“It is stunning to the extent Hughes is helping bin Laden,” says Robert Pape, a University of Chicago political scientist who has conducted extensive research into the motives of suicide terrorists and is the author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. “If you set out to help bin Laden,” he says, “you could not have done it better than Hughes.”

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bin Laden’s little helper

Hughes, for those who aren’t yet interested, is President Bush’sundersecretary.

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Plame’s name was leaked from very high within the White House. Apparently, Cheney’s Chief of Staff gave Judith Miller the information.

Will Bush keep his promise to fire anyone involved? Oh, no, to fire anyone convicted?

CNN.com - Jailed reporter�reaches deal in CIA leak probe - Sep 30, 2005

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… and reason illogically from those premises, you are going to end up with the wrong answer. Hell, even reasoning logically from the wrong premises is going to give you the wrong answer, barring some staggering luck.

I reject the theory of evolution because it is based on several faulty premises which are clearly contradicted by observation. Evolution implies chaos and meaninglessness. Creation implies order and value.

Larry Vardiman, meteorology

That they missed FarScape completely means that the list is perversely tainted. At least they got Babylon 5, though they put it behind several which do not deserve the honor.

Top 50 Science Fiction Television Shows of All Time - Boston.com

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