The human mind is wired to accept ridiculous reasons as if they are legitimate. Studies have shown that people are more likely to agree to a favor if the word “because” is used in the request. It doesn’t seem to matter what follows that word. As long as the sentence is in the form of a reason, people accept it as though some actual reason is present.
h/t Andrew Sullivan
Matt Yglesias recommends Chapter 12 of Keynes “General Theory”
It’s chugging through my printer as we speak.
Eric Erickson tweets:
The nation loses the only goat fucking child molester to ever serve on the Supreme Court in David Souter’s retirement.
Pointing the way to America’s future through a principled stance on the judiciary. Red State is one of the most popular and active right wing blogs.
h/t Crooks and Liars
As John Amato surmises, this could account for the reason Capt. Phillips hasn’t appeared anywhere on Fox.
Posted in Propaganda
Tagged Capt. Richard Phillips, Fox, Maersk Alabama, pirates, Propaganda
Churchgoers more likely to back torture, survey finds
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new analysis.
More than half of people who attend services at least once a week — 54 percent — said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is “often” or “sometimes” justified. Only 42 percent of people who “seldom or never” go to services agreed, according the analysis released Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely to say torture is often or sometimes justified — more than 6 in 10 supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it. Only 4 in 10 of them did.
The analysis is based on a Pew Research Center survey of 742 American adults conducted April 14-21. It did not include analysis of groups other than white evangelicals, white non-Hispanic Catholics, white mainline Protestants, and the religiously unaffiliated, because the sample size was too small.
Of course, this clearly points out the dire consequences for western civilization and indeed, for all of mankind, if we were to see any furtherance of secularism which has no moral underpinnings. It would be the end of the world as we have known it.
h/t Crooks and Liars
Don’t despair, Republicans - Bill Kristol
Posted in Future of the GOP and conservative movement, Propaganda
Tagged Bill Kristol, despair
Pete Seeger turns 90 today and here’s one view on the fellow from The Guardian UK
