David Blaska:The Daily Page
WPRI is not a "partisan" organization. It is conservative. And if that is wrong then how do you countenance the Havens Institute of the Rural Sociology Department?
Kyle Nabilcy:
Since there are probably more than four people reading this exchange, can I officially ask:
What the hell is the "Havens Institute of the Rural Sociology Department"? Since it seems that the department to which Blaska refers has been renamed the Community and Environmental Sociology Department, I can only assume that the "Havens" reference is equally out of date. I can't find any reference to such an entity on The Google.
David Blaska:
I'm sorry, it is the Dept. of Sociology (not rural) Havens Center.
Kyle Nabilcy:
Ah. Let's see here...
The A. E. Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change is dedicated to promoting critical intellectual reflection and exchange.
Yeah, that sounds pretty unique to the left-wing. Good call, Dave!
Incidentally the inspired scribblings of none other than the same David Blaska are featured currently at WPRI.org attempting to show how "on the crime issue, you can always count on liberals getting it wrong" by disingenuously caricaturing such "liberal arguments" as, "Don't trust the pigs." Mr. Blaska is described sardonically therein as "a former Democrat." Nope, ain't no partisans here, Nosiree Bub!
Free Lunch said...
ReplyDeleteAre there any conservatives who can engage in critical thinking these days? They all seem to be suffused with received wisdom.
2:31 PM, March 10, 2010
xoff said...
ReplyDeleteBlaska doesn't even bother to get the basic facts right. He attackes One Wisconsin Now as some kind of loophole 527 group, which it is not. It is a 501(c)(4) issue advocacy organization, duly recognized as such by the IRS. Like WPRI, it is non-partisan and not for profit.
6:24 PM, March 10, 2010
David Blaska said...
ReplyDeleteWell, let's see now. The UW Sociology Dept's Havens Center promotes Howard Zinn, an editor of something called Left Business Observer, which holds that our 200+ years of "experiment" with free-market economics has been a financial and social disaster.
No partisans here! Read it and weep at http://www.thedailypage.com/blaska/article.php?article=28426
7:24 PM, March 10, 2010
David Blaska said...
ReplyDeleteWell, let's see now. The UW Sociology Dept. Havens Center promotes the likes of Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, writer for The Nation, and an editor of something called Left Business Observer, which holds that our 200+ years of "experiment" with free-market economics has been a financial and social disaster.
No partisanship here!
7:26 PM, March 10, 2010
Don't trust the pigs man.
ReplyDeleteBlaska: The UW Sociology Dept. Havens Center promotes... an editor of something called Left Business Observer, which holds that our 200+ years of "experiment" with free-market economics has been a financial and social disaster.
ReplyDeleteFrom the Havens Center page: Convinced that the 1980s experiment with free-market economics was a financial and social disaster...
So, liar or bungler?
Good catch. But I vote for clown. A university sociology department is infested with "leftists" (welcome to Planet Earth, Mr. Blaska) therefore WPRI's partisan data fudgery is completely unremarkable.
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