Some people really, really seem to need it.
Rosie O'Donnell, the liberal equivalent of Mel Gibson (though she didn't seem to be drunk at the time), up and says on her new gig ... The View, on US network ABC ... "Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America." [click on the quote for an excellent link on the subject in the Say Anything blog]
Last time I checked "just as" is still a statement of equivalency. Unless of course it depends on what the meaning of "as" is.
Who knows?!? These types of idiotic statements by people who never switch on their reflective genes are what's dangerous to civil discourse in the U S of A. And of course they're equally dangerous here in the Bahamas. Or anywhere, for Heaven's sake! [sorry, Rosie]
My recommendation? Forced reading of
"Don't Believe Everything You Think".
Here are the 6 things Kida says are dangerous about what we think:
- We prefer stories to statistics.
- We seek to confirm, not to question, our ideas.
- We rarely appreciate the role of chance and coincidence in shaping events.
- We sometimes misperceive the world around us [and don't even realise it]
- We tend to oversimplify our thinking.
- Our memories are often inaccurate.
