11 JUN 2012 by ideonexus

 Disease is the Rule of Existence

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.
Folksonomies: parasites disease
Folksonomies: parasites disease
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Find Thoreau a perfect leaf or fruit in midsummer.

15 JUN 2011 by ideonexus

 Negative Campaigning Benefits Incumbents

Going negative is risky. Countless polls have shown that voters find negativity distasteful in the extreme, and if a candidate is percieved as going negative, it usually costs him, but of course GW Bush is a creature of his campaign advisors and these advisors are the best that $70 million dollars and the full faith and credit of the GOP establishment can buy and if Bush 2000 has gone negative, there must be solid political logic behind the move. Under the techs' lens, this logic turns out to...
Folksonomies: politics rhetoric
Folksonomies: politics rhetoric
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A group of CBS techs discuss how going negative in the 2000 Republican primaries benefited Bush because negativity drives away new voters, leaving only the party faithful at the polls to vote for the incumbent.