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According to a 1999 Gallup poll, 51 percent of Americans would not vote for an atheist in a presidential election. This is higher than the percentage who would not vote for a homosexual (41 percent). As a loud and proud atheist (I came out to my friends in preschool by proclaiming the non-existence of God), I find this to be very sad and demoralizing. Are we really worse than the homosexuals? I suppose the average God-fearing American reasons that at least gay people have souls, whereas atheists are actually possessed by the Devil...
Whatever calm this track creates is quickly shattered by the caustic screech dominating “Rapture.” In an era when the “screamo” genre is pervasive in loud rock music, the Deftones don’t do well in distinguishing themselves from the pack: Moreno takes a fairly well arranged guitar song and destroys it with the most painful and unartistic screaming imaginable. The track is a huge let-down, but it by no means defines the album...
Meanwhile, even as Bush was praising Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as "a smart, tough, capable administrator," endangered Republicans like Kentucky Representative Anne Northup and Ohio Senator Mike DeWine have been joining the increasingly loud chorus of calls for the Secretary's ouster. And pressure for change is not coming only from the desperate and the wobbly. Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison--a Bush loyalist well ahead in her bid for re-election--is expressing regret for her vote to authorize the invasion and is advocating partitioning Iraq along ethnic lines. "We have to step back and stop trying...
Groups like SLAM have also been accused of using overly feisty, noisy, and confrontational tactics. Yet, not only do such criticisms ignore the vital role played by loud and vigorous dissent in any democracy worthy of the name, but they also fail to note the full scope of what student activists...
...integral part of freshman year is swarming to upperclass houses, where enterprising students put Harvard ingenuity to work as they try to listen for loud, blaring party music. Some achieve their goal of getting blindingly drunk, willfully disregarding the ubiquitous signs behind the bar: “You must be 21 or older to drink.” But could the pernicious purveyers of that alcohol actually get in trouble for feeding underage booze hounds? The College’s Handbook for Students says that the “provision of alcohol to anyone under 21 years...