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2 Jun 2005



The list of judges includes some of the most narrow minded, paranoid, hate-breeding, conservative trolls currently poisoning what passes for discourse in the USA. They make Hitler appear reasonable and moderate. They will not rest until they have turned the USA into a Christian version of Afghanistan under the Taliban. They hate reason, they hate science, they hate minorities, they hate other cultures, and they hate anyone who disagrees with them. They are ignorant of any history not found in the Bible. They believe the poor are sinners and therefore do not deserve help. Greed, monopolies, and the concentration of wealth is good. They are fully (over) funded by people who hate organized labor and the environment, and want to sell you cigarettes, liquor, guns, overpriced prescription medicine, wars and gasoline guzzling cars. They publish dozens of factually and scientifically inaccurate books that promote their ideology and which they place on best seller lists by manipulating bulk sales. With the acquiescence of Murdoch et al they have taken over the opinion spaces of our major newspapers, magazines, and television and use those perches to shape public opinion with their propaganda. It's like Orwell's 1984 over here.

It seems to me these "judges" are afraid of anything that contributes to the idea of free will. <br> I am far from in favor of Keynes's "ever-expanding government," which, unfortunately, this nation is based on, but, isn't that the epitome of the societies these "judges" have planted their fat asses in the middle of, that allows them to sit in judgement in the first place? How can people go through life with their heads stuck so far up their asses, and expect to smell anything but foul odors, then ignorantly not realize the odor is coming from them? <br> Not to mention the fact that it's too dark to read in there.

ang

John Dewey? John Stuart Mill?<br> <br> Those books were the foundation of American democracy, the "free entrepeneurial capitalist society" that "everyone tries to emulate"....<br> If this kind of idiotic "Groupthink" wasn't so pervasive in conservative circles, I'd say this was a spoof...<br> <br> Sadly it isnt.

indomitus

A panel of unknown composition selects by an unknown process books for the attention of an audience which hasn't read any of them.

lovegoats

You don't need to be so shy, Anonymous Coward- tell us what you <span style="font-style: italic;">really </span>think next time!

Phil