Archive for November 8th, 2004

Oops!

Posted by Bob in Political Correctness on 11/08/2004

A big controversy has just broken out about a new heart drug. It was aimed at black heart disease. It worked.

Objections broke out. The drug combination was only tested on those who identify themselves as African-Americans. If I have to tell you that all hell broke loose you must be living in a different world.

But it does work specifically on blacks.

As one commentator said, “This is as much a social question as a genetic one.”

Oops! What do you mean “a genetic one?”

The absolute line, the line that every geneticist has to swear to if he wants to keep his job, is that race does not exist.

But one of the big arguments is that Hispanics have a right to use it, since they have a lot of black blood. But black blood is imaginary.

Just because it works doesn’t mean that the results of this test are real.

This drug — actually a combination of two drugs — worked so well on blacks that the testing was cut short. It worked perfectly.

This is just awful! This drug must be banned immediately.

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Cut Off the Water!

Posted by Bob in How Things Work on 11/08/2004

Back in the 1960s, the media were asking each other, “What would America do if minorities seized control of the inner cities? O woe! O woe!”

They finally asked me.

I said, “Cut off the water.”

At the beginning of this war a year and a half ago, everyody was talking about The Battle of Baghdad that would happen when American troops got there. I said, “Cut off the damned water!”

Well, Bush has finally gotten his Battle of Baghdad. He is sending in troops to fight street-to-street in Fallujah.

We have encircled Fallujah for MONTHS.

And the water is running just fine.

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10/23/04 Insider Letter

Posted by Bob in Insider Letter Archive on 11/08/2004

*** Bob’s Insider’s Message ***

October 23, 2004

Six years ago when I started writing WhitakerOnline.org I decided I would never write to meet a deadline.

That is one advantage I can offer you here. I don’t get any money for doing WOL. I pay the small expenses connected with it. My little team is composed of volunteers who do the work because they think what the old man says is worth it.

The result is that you will never be asked to read something that I wrote up because I needed to get a WOL out for this week.

In fact, when I don’t get an inspiration during the week, you’ll get a better WOL. Some of the best ones are my reserve ones. The reserve WOLs are used when I don’t come up with something that week. They are writings on the world in general that I write when I feel really inspired.

When I made my living this way I was almost always under a deadline. On Capitol Hill I was often given assignments precisely because no one else could do the writing in time.

But if something I do for WhitakerOnline.org is not unique, I simply don’t write it. You may not consider it the best, but you will always find it unique. You would be astonished if you knew the number of WOLs I have written up, found that what I had written was something somebody else had already said or was just not interesting, and just thrown away.

It has to be good, and like so many of us, I am my own cruelest critic.

I write for nobody but my readers, not for my employer or for the market.

Bob

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