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George Lakoff makes the point that our administration seems to be planning nuclear war against Iran, but nobody is using the words
nuclear war.
2/28/2007
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To put it mildly, this continues to baffle me. How the hypocrisy of *using nuclear weapons* in order to prevent another country from *obtaining nuclear weapons* because they’re so crazy, they might want to *use nuclear weapons* goes unnoticed troubles me to no end (yeah…great sentence construction there, eh?).
Comment by Eric — 3/1/2007 @ 9:17 am
So I mentioned this casually to a couple of students during a lab, and one responded with, “Well, these types of nukes don’t really spread much radiation.”
We are a soulless nation.
Comment by Eric — 3/1/2007 @ 5:44 pm