Category Archives: Compulsive Centrist Disorder

“The bitter truth of our current situation is actually very simple”: Complusive Centrist Disorder Is Alive and Well

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Ordinary, I would put something like this in the links roundup, but what Driftglass writes about the continuing obsession with Compulsive Centrist Disorder is top-notch. Take it away, comrade: The bitter truth of our current situation is actually very simple: … Continue reading →

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He-Said, She-Said Education Reporting: Just What Our Children Need

Posted on April 18, 2011 by

To consider educational ‘reformers’ as one side of an honest debate is to be party to intellectual fraud. You are granting them a legitimacy they have not earned, just as writing a story describing an intellectual ‘debate’ between biologists and creationists grants creationists unwarranted legitimacy.
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Posted in Compulsive Centrist Disorder, Education

Beware Compulsive Centrists and ISlate-esque Contrarians Bearing False Equivalencies

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

Civility troll alert.
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I Thought Technocratic ‘Centrists’ Were Supposed to Be Competent: The Mayor Bloomberg Edition

Posted on December 31, 2010 by

But Magickal Centrists are supposed to be so competent!
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Obama Is a Centrist Ideologue

Posted on December 5, 2010 by

If he acts like a Reagan conservative….
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Lessons from How Rome Fell

Posted on November 23, 2010 by

“Many of these could enjoy highly successful careers by the standards of the day without ever being effective in the role that they were theoretically supposed to perform.”
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A Question for Gergen and Hart: Is Opposing Creationism ‘Elitist’?

Posted on November 17, 2010 by

Because that’s what it seems they’re claiming.
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Posted in Compulsive Centrist Disorder, Conservatives, Creationism | 6 Comments

The Deep Game of the Cat Food Simpson-Bowles Commission

Posted on November 15, 2010 by

Let’s get back to focusing on the current jobs deficit.
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Yes, ‘Moderation’ Is an Ideology (Joe Klein Is Only One Year Behind the Mad Biologist)

Posted on November 8, 2010 by

Fiscal responsibility is the prioritization and the fetishization of the budget deficit over the employment deficit.
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Posted in Compulsive Centrist Disorder | 6 Comments

David Brooks Gets Obama Wrong

Posted on March 15, 2010 by

Quelle surprise.
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Posted in Compulsive Centrist Disorder | 4 Comments