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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:00 AM

Miss dumb blond USA?

Our national embarrassment over a South Carolina teenage contestant's world knowledge.
Rebecca Traister

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  • Friday, August 31, 2007 01:28 AM

    -- healthyskeptic

    "Speaking at the sad state of US education and lazy minds, you've never met a logical fallacy you didn't like have you? You have no familiarity with the formal concept of reason, such as a properly constructed deductive argument, do you?"

    Speaking of logical fallacy, we seem to have descended to the level of ad hominem discourse. If you can develop a properly constructed deductive argument from the case of Miss Teen South Carolina, let's have a look at it. In the mean time, you don't know me, and the logical fallacy is yours.

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