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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Thu Oct 23, 2014, 05:46 PM Oct 2014

Ebola Czar

Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman

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Ebola Czar (Original Post) Playinghardball Oct 2014 OP

Interesting how the media makes up these names and titles, then tries to make funny of those that Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #1

"the empiricism of the idiots" Warren DeMontague Oct 2014 #2

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

1. Interesting how the media makes up these names and titles, then tries to make funny of those that

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Oct 23, 2014, 05:50 PM

Oct 2014

only they tagged with the label....the majority of the media only has strawman and ad hominem attacks with which to "inform" their entranced viewers and readers.

Keep it simple, fuck the complexity of the actual facts.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

2. "the empiricism of the idiots"

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Oct 23, 2014, 05:56 PM

Oct 2014

http://www.businessinsider.com/nassim-taleb-heres-what-people-dont-understand-about-ebola-2014-10#ixzz3GdSErRhN

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