Up until recently, Fake Social Science was suffering very low self-esteem. Nobody cared about us. Then we realized that nobody cared about Real Social Science either, so that made us feel a little better.
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A new documentary unmasks the truth about the American Tea Party movement exposing it for what it really is, an "astroturf" movement created and paid for by the multi-billionaire Koch Brothers. Here's the synopsis from the film's Web site:
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(Translation into Spanish and French are below.) When it comes to discovering what the opinion of the founding fathers was on the value of public education, it rapidly becomes clear that they considered it essential to the survival of the democratic form of government – or …
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The 2012 election has been in full swing for a while now but, with rare exception, it has been a series of local stories. Today it goes national.
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Today's story comes from TPMDC, not because they have any sort of exclusive on it, but because their headline best addresses the importance behind this story.
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Jon Stewart joked that his Rally for Sanity was just like Woodstock but without the nudity and drugs.
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Pundits, polemicists and various and sundry other social critics have puzzled lately over the problem of how to nickname the current decade, now rapidly closing. We need a nickname and we need it now. The obvious choice would be the "Bubble" Decade.
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As I was gleefully, obsessively overstimulating myself this week reading, watching and listening to innumerable reports of the Democrats' historic victory enacting the principle of universal health care coverage into Federal law after a sixty-year struggle, one of the items that …
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Although I have argued this case informally on a number of occasions, since the rock and the hard place are here at last, the rubber is meeting the road, the push has been shoved, the fishing or cutting of bait must now happen, and the time has come for the pot to have its busine …
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I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later but what happened to the Old Fogey today was a monumental occurrence. A Eureka moment. A seizmic shift. The light bulb came on. He is going around shame faced because he has had to fess up. Eat crow. Blush brightly.
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