Suppose that, year after year, I, as a public citizen, give $20 to local Democratic candidates. One day I receive a letter from Jack Abramoff directing me to give $10 to the same Democratic candidates. After receiving that letter, I continue to donate to Democratic candidates. What, on God’s green earth, does Abramoff have to do with it?
Americans Specifically
I’m noticing that the media is starting to pay attention to language more. They’ve switched from referring to the citizens of New Orleans as “refugees” to calling them “evacuees,” which is a much more accurate term. It’s also a term that doesn’t make them sound like they’re from another country, which it was sure sounding, and looking, like on TV.
Creationism vs ID vs Evolution
Evolution is real. It is concrete. It stands on millions of fossils that all fall into place perfectly with one another, none of them out of place, nothing contradicting the theory. Referring to it as a theory is like referring to the “theory of gravity” as just a theory. Last time I looked out the window, the neighbors weren’t floating over their porches.
Cloning Stem Cells
The subject is cloning stem cells, often called therapeutic cloning. Paul Berg, a professor emeritus at Stanford University, recently made the statement “We are not cloning people, we are cloning stem cells to treat patients.” That sounds good and people on both the left and right support stem cell research, which supporters hope will lead to therapeutic cloning, but people on the far right like to use words like “murder” when referring to stem cell research.
That’s Gay
It just happens that I’ve recently considered my own use of the word gay as a negative affirmation. Now, I believe that gay people should be treated equally, not just under the law but by society too, and I know that the usage I’m describing of the word gay derived out of a negative connotation towards homosexuality. I just don’t care about the origin of this or any other word.