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2005-05-16 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by tipper 2005-05-16 11:09|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Stupid metaphor alert!

"Over this landscape, GÃ¶ran Therborn's 'Between Sex and Power' rises like a majestic volcano. Throwing up a billowing column of the boldest ideas and arguments, while an awesome lava of evidence flows down its slopes, this is a great work of historical intellect and imagination."

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-05-16 13:16|| 2005-05-16 13:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-05-16 16:18|| 2005-05-16 16:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Did Sully Boy write this one? Sounds like what he has in mind when he uses his pet term, "the money graf."

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-05-16 16:21|| 2005-05-16 16:21|| Front Page Top

#4 by Sully boy you mean Andrew Sullivan? He doesnt go near the ex-stalinists at The Nation, and he doesnt like poseur type prose, either.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-05-16 16:40|| 2005-05-16 16:40|| Front Page Top

#5 The inevitable result of dumbing down public education. This is the sort of drivel that freshmen used to write to show how worldly they were.

Posted by RWV 2005-05-16 16:44|| 2005-05-16 16:44|| Front Page Top

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