http://ontoligent.com/blogs/cc/ 2004-11-10T19:53:13-05:00 http://ontoligent.com/blogs/cc/archives/2004/11/be_careful_what.html Some more rational discourse from the blues.... admin 2004-11-10T19:53:13-05:00 http://ontoligent.com/blogs/cc/archives/2004/11/hey_garrison_i.html I'm sure these people love your show, too.... admin 2004-11-10T19:50:13-05:00 http://ontoligent.com/blogs/cc/archives/2004/10/media_matters_n.html This is what passes for critical assessment of media coverage on the Media Matters web site. Here is a typical headline "Network fact-checks equated possible Kerry misstatement with flagrant Bush distortion" (see the story). So, let me see if I... admin 2004-10-07T09:51:38-05:00 http://ontoligent.com/blogs/cc/archives/2004/10/the_democratic.html Just saw the clip on the New Dem web site. It's the most condensed version of what I call the Democrat narrative (story, meme) that I have seen. It goes like this: The prosperity of the 90s was purely the... admin 2004-10-04T10:22:15-05:00 http://ontoligent.com/blogs/cc/archives/2004/09/pure_punk_polit.html Garrison Keillor's recent rant--what else can you call it?--is a real eye opener. Count it as another in a long series of American intellectuals dropping their pants for the world to see because, as they see it, Bush is so... admin 2004-09-29T17:42:20-05:00 http://ontoligent.com/blogs/cc/archives/2004/09/barbra_streisan_1.html "Yes...the documents CBS presented could not be confirmed for their authenticity ..." From Where is the free press? They just can't say it -- the documents are fake, moron! And never mind that all of people she mentions in the... admin 2004-09-29T07:19:33-05:00 http://ontoligent.com/blogs/cc/archives/2004/09/on_the_words_pr.html A word of explanation: I use the word "progressive" to designate those whose ideas are antithetical to conservatism, as oppsed to "liberal," for a couple of reasons. For one, the latter is used in political economy to describe the very... admin 2004-09-28T13:06:53-05:00 http://ontoligent.com/blogs/cc/archives/2004/09/a_progressive_i.html Someone who goes to sleep at night worrying that somewhere someone is making a profit.... admin 2004-09-28T13:02:33-05:00 http://ontoligent.com/blogs/cc/archives/2004/09/four_reasons_to.html Some of my best friends are Democrats. Actually, all of them are. That's why I am a "closet conservative." I have learned to negotiate the situation with irony and metaphor. Anyway, when folks do discover a conservative leaning during cocktail... admin 2004-09-28T07:09:20-05:00 http://ontoligent.com/blogs/cc/archives/2004/09/harry_potter_a_1.html The English surprise me sometimes, and I say this as an ardent Anglophile. Here is a blog entry about how J.K. Rowling must be a conservative because she supports the English system over the metric. See how doctrinaire these "free... admin 2004-09-15T15:24:44-05:00 http://ontoligent.com/blogs/cc/archives/2004/09/an_explanation.html OK, here's the situation. I am a conservative in spite of the fact that I have spent years (YEARS) in academia and surrounded by progressives, liberals, and lefties of all kinds. I have Marx, the Franfurt School, all manner of... admin 2004-09-14T14:26:54-05:00