[Dean's World] Dave Price: Around the Web

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Posted by Dave Price:
Around the Web
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1147661522.shtml


   Pixy Misa posts an Australian answer to Atrios' "Are You A Liberal"
   quiz, and has a recap as well:

     The questions seem to be of two varieties: The most prevalent is Do
     you live in economic fairyland, where the magic power of the State
     to print money removes all personal responsibility?, and the second
     is Do you like drugs? Drugs are great; I don't think my life has
     ever depended on them, but my quality of life is quite reliant on
     dexchlorpheniramine and the occasional dose of ibuprofen. But if
     you answered positively to question one, you may be a little too
     devoted to question two. I'm just saying...

   And Michael Totten has his usual interesting, even jarring
   [1]perspective on the Mideast:

     There is a huge difference between Media Israel and the Israel that
     actually exists in the world. Israeli Arabs are written straight
     out of the manichean ethnic clashistan narrative.
     I saw no evidence that Israeli Arabs are poorer than Jews. Itâs
     hard to visually compare the economics of a modern city with an
     ancient one. But I can visually compare the economics of Jaffa with
     other old Arab cities Iâve been to. Jaffa rivals or beats every one
     of them.

References

   1. http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001137.html