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2009/12/21 04:00:41
Subject: Washington Post's worst ideas of the decade
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[MOD]
Otiose in a Niche
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/opinions/outlook/worst-ideas/index.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
The Worst Ideas of the Decade
When the best you can say about a 10-year span is that Y2K was overblown and that at least our downturn wasn't a Depression, you know it was hardly the best of times. We're not particularly sorry to leave the Aughts behind. And if you need any more reminders of what makes this decade so worthy of finally ringing out, here's a look back at some of the really, truly bad ideas that it inflicted upon us.
Vote among Outlook's candidates and suggest your own -- we'll highlight the most interesting entry next week.
Vaccine scares
The misguided effort to blame vaccines for causing autism isn't just bad science, Clive Thompson argues. By hindering our ability to fight the flu, it's killing people.
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The battle of Tora Bora
Remember how Osama bin Laden escaped after the battle of Tora Bora in 2001? It was no accident -- but the result of flawed planning and beliefs about how to wage modern wars, argues Susan Glasser.
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Television dancing competitions
Could anything that brought you Tom DeLay doing the cha cha on national television really be so wrong? Yes. Yes it could, says Amelie Gillette. Dancing on TV is a meaningless fame factory, and viewers embraced it in depressingly huge numbers.
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The BlackBerry
As hand-held e-mail devices such as the BlackBerry have proliferated, John Freeman writes, our addiction to email -- and to work -- has spiraled out of control.
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The torture memos
The Justice Department's memos on torture were the lowest low point in post-Sept. 11 legal thought. As Dahlia Lithwick shows, they were proof that in wartime, the law is as malleable as its most cynical lawyer.
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World-is-flat movies
An absurd breed of ensemble movie emerged, Dennis Lim observes, one characterized by large casts, intersecting plots and the wrongheaded belief that it's a small world after all.
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Sarbanes-Oxley
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was supposed to head off Enron-style wrongdoing. Instead, contends Nick Gillespie, it only added expensive regulations without fixing the problem.
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Compassionate conservatism
Compassionate conservatism promised George W. Bush as the healer-in-chief. It won him the White House. But, Reihan Salam argues, it stranded Republicans in an era of crony capitalism -- with entrepreneurship and growth snuffed out for a generation.
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The endless sports season
Sports seasons are bleeding into one another, with longer playoffs, more bowl games and an NCAA tournament that may reach 96 teams, complains The Post's Tracee Hamilton. What happens when the madness is year-round?
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Housing prices always rise
Plenty of mistakes and delusions brought on our financial crisis, writes Greg Ip of the Economist, but none so much as the belief that housing prices can only go up.
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The prosperity gospel
Would would Jesus do? According to Cathleen Falsani, he certainly wouldn't sign on to the prosperity Gospel, the pernicious idea that God blesses the faithful with material wealth.
What no radical Islam? Very Amero-centric!
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2009/12/21 04:04:44
Subject: Washington Post's worst ideas of the decade
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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What, no reading the Washington Post in the top 10?
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2009/12/21 07:24:45
Subject: Re:Washington Post's worst ideas of the decade
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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I assume it's worst American ideas... otherwise you'd think flying planes into a couple of buildings would be have to be up there.
Also, no 'invading Iraq'?
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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2009/12/21 10:15:19
Subject: Washington Post's worst ideas of the decade
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Anti-piracy Officer
Somewhere in south-central England.
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Television dancing competitions
Could anything that brought you Tom DeLay doing the cha cha on national television really be so wrong? Yes. Yes it could, says Amelie Gillette. Dancing on TV is a meaningless fame factory, and viewers embraced it in depressingly huge numbers.
Technically that was a British idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictly_Come_Dancing
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2009/12/21 12:02:25
Subject: Washington Post's worst ideas of the decade
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Joined the Military for Authentic Experience
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"Worst Ideas of the Decade" or "Journalist's Pet Hates"?
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2009/12/21 14:09:43
Subject: Washington Post's worst ideas of the decade
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Hangin' with Gork & Mork
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I don't think this was meant to be taken that seriously.
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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
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2009/12/21 17:03:54
Subject: Re:Washington Post's worst ideas of the decade
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Otiose in a Niche
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sebster wrote:I assume it's worst American ideas... otherwise you'd think flying planes into a couple of buildings would be have to be up there.
Also, no 'invading Iraq'?
Like I said radical Islam, all of it. The whole idea that God wants Muslims to oppress women and kill children is not just a bad idea but (I'm told) bad theology too. Easily the worst idea of the 21st C and sadly getting stronger in some places.
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2009/12/21 17:18:17
Subject: Washington Post's worst ideas of the decade
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Anti-piracy Officer
Somewhere in south-central England.
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That idea is a lot older than the 21st century.
It's just that western nations have 80% grown out of it.
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2009/12/21 18:18:27
Subject: Re:Washington Post's worst ideas of the decade
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Nasty Nob on Warbike with Klaw
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sebster wrote:I assume it's worst American ideas... otherwise you'd think flying planes into a couple of buildings would be have to be up there.
Also, no 'invading Iraq'?
Kid_Kyoto wrote:sebster wrote:I assume it's worst American ideas... otherwise you'd think flying planes into a couple of buildings would be have to be up there.
Also, no 'invading Iraq'?
Like I said radical Islam, all of it. The whole idea that God wants Muslims to oppress women and kill children is not just a bad idea but (I'm told) bad theology too. Easily the worst idea of the 21st C and sadly getting stronger in some places.
Worst idea of the decade? How about the biggest rope-a-dope in history, just to justify two pointless wars and an unnecessary depression? I can't wait to see what the 2010's bring. 
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2009/12/21 19:06:21
Subject: Washington Post's worst ideas of the decade
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Preacher of the Emperor
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That's what they came up with? Blackberrys and DeLay dancing?
That paper would be more useful strung up on rolls in the Men's room.
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mattyrm wrote: I will bro fist a toilet cleaner.
I will chainfist a pretentious English literature student who wears a beret. 
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2009/12/21 20:47:49
Subject: Re:Washington Post's worst ideas of the decade
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Khorne Veteran Marine with Chain-Axe
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They forgot a couple of the worst ideas:
Government run healthcare
Reading the Washington post
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2009/12/21 20:57:13
Subject: Re:Washington Post's worst ideas of the decade
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Rogue Daemonhunter fueled by Chaos
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ChaosDave wrote:They forgot a couple of the worst ideas:
Government run healthcare
Reading the Washington post
That's some piercing satire there. 
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