Bush has suddenly decided that the Iraq occupation is kinda like Vietnam after all, but of course he’s careful to draw the wrong conclusions from the comparison. The article quotes American University historian Allan Lichtman as saying that Bush’s spin on the situation “is not revisionist history. It is fantasy history.”
On a related note, […]
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Roundup: Fantasy History Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 23rd, 2007 at 3:29 pm
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Raising Issues with Tissues: Greenpeace Infiltrates Kleenex Ad Campaign!
Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 2nd, 2007 at 1:56 pm
One more post in honor of April Fool’s day — here’s Greenpeace pulling a pretty good activist prank.
Kimberly-Clark, the makers of Kleenex, are responsible for clear-cutting irreplaceable old-growth forests in order to make their tissues. Meanwhile, there’s this Kleenex ad campaign where people are asked to sit on a blue sofa, artistically placed on […]
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Seals, Global Warming, and the Canadian Seafood Boycott
Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 29th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Canada is gearing up for its brutal annual slaughter of baby seals, setting its highest quota ever at a time when the seal populations are also threatened by climate change.
Harp and hooded seals rely on the presence of sea ice, on which they give birth to and nurse their pups. But over the past […]
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