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...vote winner among factory workers in Ohio, which also votes on March 4. But South Texas Democrats love free trade: the impoverished region pins its economic future on commerce with Mexico. Same with denouncing the oil industry, which employs a lot of Democratic voters in South Texas. Ditto for scorn heaped on the Bush Administration's No Child Left Behind legislation. That plays well with teachers' unions, but many Texas Latinos have supported the program since its inception in the days when George W. Bush was governor...
...order. On Monday more than 1,000 French riot cops raided apartments in several suburban housing projects north of Paris, arresting 33 of the 37 suspected leaders of ultra-violent rioting in the region last November. But along with cheers, the spectacular dawn raid reaped plenty of scorn. Former Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal called it "spectacle politics;" it was a mix "of justice and stage craft" in the opinion of centrist leader Francois Bayrou. Normal enough, of course, for the opposition to carp at government action. But this time there was some evidence giving credence to their complaints: scores...
...fallen. “The Age of American Unreason,” Susan Jacoby’s latest effort, bemoans the dilution of American intellectual ambition and the crippling apathy that has settled in its place.Using an arsenal of historical analysis, anecdotal musings, and hard-nosed scorn, Jacoby deconstructs American culture to reveal the virus of anti-intellectualism that has penetrated to its core. Her polemical work excoriates modern America as a societal landscape of spoiled heritage and unrealized potential, populated by Americans who are as ignorant and poorly educated about science as religion. Jacoby condemns unsparingly?...
Nothing inspires scorn like wasted fame?or kills nuance like a fire-engine-red bra. But to dismiss Winehouse as just another train wreck is to presume that she has no idea she's off the rails, and this distinction matters when considering how to feel about her. Winehouse's Back to Black is up for six Grammy Awards on Feb. 10, including one for Album of the Year. While the Grammys are notorious for their grandfatherly taste (she'll be competing against Herbie Hancock, among others), they're spot-on about Winehouse. On Back to Black she sounds like...
Still, boycotts and scorn are the wrong response. For one thing, they're not likely to work. For another, we're supposed to encourage people who feel doomed to share it in words and know that others can relate. The law can take care of their actions, and in Winehouse's case, it already has: she's likely to miss her Grammy moment because of the visa issues that go along with being a danger to yourself. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't root...