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Crichton: Against all Edens

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After Michael Crichton’s death last week, a few different obituaries hinted at his iconoclastic questioning of global-warming certainties. What’s striking is that Crichton’s criticisms of global warming attracted more hostility than his attacks on religion — a generic religion that stands as the enemy of all things scientific. New York Times science columnist John Tierney quotes from a speech, “Environmentalism as Religion,” which Crichton delivered in September 2003 at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club:


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Everyone has a story

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Probably the best example of how the mainstream media completely games the coverage of same-sex marriage is an article from the Los Angeles Times. “Election leaves gay couple feeling isolated in conservative bastion” is about these two heroic lesbians who opposed Proposition 8 while living in a conservative neighborhood in Riverside County.


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Proposition 8 protests heat up

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So the protests against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because of its support for Proposition 8 are continuing and receiving quite a bit of mainstream media coverage. Proposition 8 passed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as an institution involving one man and one woman. Stories involve everything from Mormon churches being vandalized to large-scale protests in urban areas.


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