Professor Bainbridge, whose blog is even worse than the one Dowingba considers to be the worst weblog ever, has some interesting thoughts on President Bush’s proposal to extend some form of non-amnesty amnesty to illegal aliens. The good professor makes some interesting points, but they are overshadowed by frequent references to “undocumented” aliens, and by repeated name-calling toward those who disagree with the proposal. The article contains one reference to the Gestapo, two to “nativists” and one to “reflexive Bush-haters,” and refers to opponents “foaming at the mouth” and giving birth to not one, but two cows. With the exception of an update to address of Kevin Drum’s objections, the article contains almost no references to the possibility that any rational human being might also have a problem with the proposal.
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