Wiley out of tune, line with band
By Mark Riechers
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By Mark Riechers
Politics in downtown Madison are famously unmuted. Voices from the political left and right shout at one another across Library Mall, Capitol Square—even the lunchroom of Gordon Commons. Opponents in this November's mid-term elections again will look to faction this campus and recruit young soldiers to vote for their cause.
As U.S. citizens, revolution is in our blood. Our nation was born in the cradle of revolt against British oppression, an origin that has led our government to support all manners of revolutions around the world in the pursuit of a better democracy. We even love the idea of revolution within our democratic system, with some of the most popular political figures in history promising internal revolutions through New Freedoms, New Deals and New Frontiers.
It is possible to understand the anti-abortion movement, even if you do not necessarily agree with it. Whether it is religious investment in the value of the human embryo or a belief in the sacred nature of the human body, pro-life advocates have an ideology that coherently fits together. What's hard to understand is how this ideology is taken up by some legislators and yet makes no sense when put into legislation. Taking legislative action that may increase the number of pregnant teenagers seems to run in direct opposition to the goals of those who subscribe to the ideology of the abortion-rights movement.
Any fan of useless statistics has likely visited Facebook's 'Pulse''??which uses aggregate data and other computer voodoo to calculate the popularity of interests, music, movies and groups of college students from schools across the United States. It makes these calculations from a 'statistically reliable' source'the information procrastinating college students choose to list in their profiles.