And MSNBC – MSNBC! – notices.
8 June, 2009
Jenny McCarthy’s Real Contribution to Children
It’s a body count.
With at least 168 kids dead so far, the CDC is fighting back with a video aimed at most of the bullcrap the antivaxers are peddling. Watch it all the way to the end for some extra cuteness.
Update, and bumped:
Somehow the video didn’t get embedded. Here you go:
You Scare Me
Before it hits your email inbox with a zillion ‘>’ marks from being forwarded, let’s just use Snopes.com to confirm that Lou Pritchett really did write this open letter to The Messiah.
Hijab, Hajib, Whatever
Hitch on The Messiah’s Cairo speech.
Take the single case in which our president touched upon the best-known fact about the Islamic “world”: its tendency to make women second-class citizens. He mentioned this only to say that “Western countries” were discriminating against Muslim women! And how is this discrimination imposed? By limiting the wearing of the head scarf or hijab (a word that Obama pronounced as hajib—imagine the uproar if George Bush had done that). The clear implication was an attack on the French law that prohibits the display of religious garb or symbols in state schools. Indeed, the following day in Paris, Obama made this point even more explicitly.
Moral Equivalency Watch
Raymond Ibrahim looks at the comparitive violence of Judaism and Christianity vs. Islam. It’s an interesting read, and its conclusion not a surprise. Seems to me, though, to ignore the basic point: So-called moral equivalency arguments of this type are tu quoque fallacies.
No matter how bloody or brutal Judaism or Christianity may or may not have been in the past, nothing justifies the brutal violence of jihadists today. It’s the kind of argument one can expect on a school yard among nine year olds. “Tommy did it first!”
