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UFAIR? Faulty reasoning? Tarring a perfectly legitimate candidate with the same brush as a blatantly racist hate-monger? yes. Anyone who finds such reasoning sound needs to take a basic logic course. No one with working neurons can say that just because a bigot like duke espouses a position, all who hold that position are racists...
What I will say is that by tarring Buchanan and his ideas with the "racist, sexist, homophobe" brush, liberals easily escape having to debate him on his policy suggestions--which show no traces of racism, sexism or homophobia...
...fame of these individuals merely due to their prior status as celebrities. People also become celebrities if they symbolize the blameless AIDS sufferer, as did Kimberly Bergalis when she contracted AIDS from her dentist last year. My intention is not to brush aside these patients' sufferings or to impugn their motives, but to point out the cultural trend of recognizing two separate and unequal classes of AIDS patients...
Whether one peruses Matisse, the master reductionist, who uses plain black brush strokes to sketch a woman's face in "Tete,"--or Dufy, who uses a charcoal pencil to delineate contours without filling in the flesh of bourgeois French men in "Personnage"--the figures create a dynamism that only modern art evinces. This visual movement strongly contrasts the static and frigid characters of nineteenth century French artists like Ingres and David, whose canvases present both form and content, with the former prevailing...
Ylvisaker leaves four children, Elizabeth, Mark, Peter, and David; two brothers, John and David; two sisters, Elizabeth Brush and Barbara Newsom; and four grandchildren. His wife, Barbara, died last year...