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Nowhere are the weaknesses and propagandistic nature of Afrocentrism more visible than in its version of slave history. Afrocentrists wish to invent a sort of remedial history in which the entire blame for the invention and practice of black slavery is laid at the door of Europeans. This is profoundly unhistorical, but it's getting locked in popular consciousness through the new curriculums...
America's automakers realized last year that none of the Big Three had the resources to invent on its own the car battery of the future, explains John Wallace, director of electric vehicles for Ford. But each company had at least one poorly funded battery research project under way, which, if linked with the others, could be coordinated to eliminate overlap and speed a breakthrough. So Ford, GM and Chrysler joined forces and asked the government to match their efforts dollar for dollar. "We agreed to cooperate on batteries," added Wallace, "but compete on vehicles...
...primary fears of the separationists is that if government gets too involved with religion, the result will resemble the bloodless, lifeless state-backed churches in Europe. Many of the supporters of the church-state wall fear that politicians, bent on compromise more than conversion, would try to invent some inoffensive brand of faith -- the creche encircled by reindeer hauling Santa's sleigh. "What you are tending to see is a new secular state religion," says Lee Boothby, a Seventh-day Adventist who is general counsel with Americans United for Separation of Church and State. "It's not really religion...
...ranting excess of the finest quality, and a case could be made that its author is the most gifted and prodigious humorist the U.S. has heard from since the old steamboat pilot ran aground. Prophetic stuff too. One doubter, + foreseeing the twilight of radio, broods that "they will invent something. It'll have the same effect as bourbon but it won't give you headaches or upset the stomach, so it'll be used even by the kiddos. It'll earn gazillions. And boys, they are not going to deal us in on that hand." What Keillor has sketched...
...there are no rules, so long as you enjoy, and the choice is practically unlimited." For devotees of the old Joy, all this is familiar. Like a dinner menu, sexual activity is divided into ingredients, appetizers, main courses and sauces, which, taken together, suggest that the French really did invent sex. You have your pattes d'araignee, your diligence de Lyon, your flanquette, your paresseuse, your postillionage, your negresse, your croupade, your pompoir, your cuissade, your ligottage and your florentine, none of which will bear elaboration here without provoking the wrath of Jesse Helms, even if his French is rusty...