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	Frankfurt, H.G.: On Bullshit.
		Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it.
		By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
		Bullshit is now such a dominant feature of our culture that most of us are confident we can recognize and rebuff it.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /titles/7929.html (629 words)

	The Next Hurrah: Bullshit
		It becomes obvious then that not all bullshit is bad, and that in fact we may not all agree what bullshit is. If you are alone, penniless, without shelter, food or water, then the high-minded studies of a scientist or philosopher really are meaningless bullshit.
		It seems to me that your definition of bullshit is another way to describe this reality-creation, and that a lot of the discussion on the leftward blogs for the past several years has circled around whether the Busheviks knew that their contrived reality was bullshit, or if they actually believed it.
		Bullshit in that sense is an attempt to evade and obfuscate.
	thenexthurrah.typepad.com /the_next_hurrah/2006/03/bullshit.html (3749 words)

	bullshit!
		And speaking of "bullshit", in yesterday's e-mail, we received the regular openDemocracy newsletter (a good one to subscribe to), wherein they make an apology of sorts for having delved into the murky world of bullshit - in a previous issue of their Internet postings.
		Bullshit, along with chickenshittedness, have always been of concern hereabouts, particularly due to the Cheney-Bush White House neocon Election 2000, 9/11 and Iraq war advent, which started, as did these pages, on December 13, 2000.
		Bullshitting aims at the formation of trustworthiness, as Eric Ambler's character in Dirty Story discovered at an early stage in life: "One of the first things my father taught me was, Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through".
	www.ocnsignal.com /bullshit.htm (1898 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Comment is free \| The big chill of the censor
		Legally, a profane word is "certain of those personally reviling epithets naturally tending to provoke violent resentment or denoting language so grossly offensive to members of the public who actually hear it as to amount to a nuisance".
		If, instead, she said, "Bush's war is bullshit", and that were broadcast, every station carrying it and the speaker herself could be fined per utterance, per station.
		The newsmakers who want to call bullshit, and the journalists who ought to call bullshit, and the broadcasters who think that stopping them out of fear is bullshit should take on the FCC and the archaic and unconstitutional law that makes them think they should save us from a simple word.
	www.guardian.co.uk /commentisfree/story/0,,1745933,00.html (975 words)

	BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » In defense of bullshit
		If, instead, she said that “Bush’s war is bullshit” and that were broadcast across the country, every station that carried it and the speaker herself could be fined per utterance, even into bankruptcy.
		Bullshit is part of our language, part of our culture, part of our politics, part of our democracy.
		FCC bans bullshit but not ni*er!” — the n-word and other racial epithets bothers me more than vulgarity, too (emotion!) but arguably (reason) racial epithets are more closely related to political speech* than simply saying bullshit, tits, or even semprini.
	www.buzzmachine.com /index.php/2006/03/28/in-defense-of-bullshit (8638 words)

	Bullshit parallels (kottke.org)
		The essence of bullshit, Frankfurt decides, is that it is produced without any concern for the truth.
		But this does not mean that he necessarily gets them wrong." The bullshitter's fakery consists not in misrepresenting a state of affairs but in concealing his own indifference to the truth of what he says.
		And that, Frankfurt says, is what makes bullshit so dangerous: it unfits a person for telling the truth.
	www.kottke.org /05/09/bullshit-parallels (451 words)

	Defining bullshit. By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
		It is possible to bullshit somebody, but it is not possible to poppycock, or to twaddle, or to horseshit anyone.
		In this respect the word "bullshit" is identical to the word "lie," for when we speak of a lie we speak, implicitly, of the action that brought the lie into being: Somebody lied.
		Bullshit, Frankfurt notes, is an inevitable byproduct of public life, "where people are frequently impelled—whether by their own propensities or by the demands of others—to speak extensively about matters of which they are to some degree ignorant." But politics is not a creation of the modern era; it's been around for centuries.
	www.slate.com /id/2114268 (1573 words)

	The Washington Monthly
		Bullshit == lie, but the one making the claim is too much of a chicken to raise the level of the insult.
		If bullshit is the result of no longer caring about the truth, then chickenshit is what happens when one when one can no longer get it up even to try to be convincing, when one loses one's feeling for the game of communication entirely, and simply goes through the motions.
		Those in power are forcing their bullshit down our throat, but, their ability to do so is a direct consequence of the "left" where left means this whole paradigm, relativity, self esteem, neo marxist, deconstructionist, blah blah blahist, bullshit that now passes for a college education in much of the social sciences and humanities.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2005_03/005766.php (9801 words)

	Urban Dictionary: bullshit
		Bullshit is what one would call something that isn't true or he doesn't agree with.
		Bullshit and Shit do not mean the same thing.
		Bullshit is so funny, I luagh myself to tears when I see a episode.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=bullshit (593 words)

	Bullshit Bingo [Random!] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bullshit Bingo is a way to change all of that!
		Bullshit Bingo and print one copy of this game card for each player, refreshing the page before each print, or have the players print their own BS Bingo cards.
		Phrases for "Bullshit Bingo" randomly chosen from a list of 242 possible selections, last updated: Fri Aug 18 17:37:13 PDT 2006.
	www.bullshitbingo.net /cards/bullshit (152 words)

	Rules of Card Games: Bullshit / Cheat / I Doubt It
		This game is generally called Cheat in Britain and Bullshit in the USA.
		For example if it is your turn to discard Sevens, you may actually discard any card or mixture of cards; in particular, if you don't have any Sevens you will be forced to play some other card or cards.
		Any player who suspects that the card(s) discarded by a player do not match the rank called can challenge the play by calling "Cheat!", "Bullshit!" or "I doubt it!" (depending on what you call the game).
	www.pagat.com /beating/cheat.html (742 words)

	The Webtender: Drinking game: Bullshit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If someone thinks that you are lying, they say "Bullshit!" If that person is right, you drink an amount proportional to the number of cards in the stack; lots of cards already played = lots of drinks.
		However, if you were honest in your play and someone says "Bullshit!" that person ends up drinking the prescribed amount.
		Oh, by the way, if have to drink because of either being caught bullshitting or falsely accusing, in addition to drinking, you must also pick up all of the cards already played and add them to your hand.
	www.webtender.com /handbook/games/bullshit.game (239 words)

	Books in Bed: Bullshit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He said it a lot and I believe he learned it from his father since my family often tells about how I said "bullshit pappaw" to my grandfather when I was two - and that I learned the word from him....
		Some people are good at spewing bullshit and making you believe it's the honest to goodness truth.
		On Bullshit was a little dry, a little boring, but also just a wee bit interesting.
	flamingohouse.blogs.com /booksinbed/2006/06/bullshit.html (579 words)

	Powell's Books - On Bullshit by
		On Bullshit surely ranks as one of the best gift books to come along in quite some time, but — I shit you not —; gift-giving aside, you'll probably want a copy for yourself.
		By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth thanlies are.
		the trouble with bullshit is that it undermines cultural respect for the truth.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=4-0691122946-0 (532 words)

	Bullshit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bullshit (often abbreviated to BS) is a common expletive.
		In Australia the phenomenon Bulldusting does not exist whereas Bullshitting, Bullshit filters and a number of other Bullshit based derivatives do.
		"Bull", meaning nonsense, dates from the 17th century (Concise Oxford Dictionary), whereas the term "bullshit" was first used in 1915, in American slang, and came into popular usage only during World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bullshit (1288 words)

	Amazon.com: On Bullshit: Books: Harry G. Frankfurt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bullshitting, as he notes, is not exactly lying, and bullshit remains bullshit whether it's true or false.
		The difference lies in the bullshitter's complete disregard for whether what he's saying corresponds to facts in the physical world: he "does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it.
		Instead, he points to one source of bullshit's unprecedented expansion in recent years, the postmodern skepticism of objective truth in favor of sincerity, or as he defines it, staying true to subjective experience.
	www.amazon.com /Bullshit-Harry-G-Frankfurt/dp/0691122946 (2007 words)

	Bullshit and Truthiness - Atlantic Review - Analysis of U.S. foreign policy and transatlantic relations
		Bullshitting is distinct from lying and it is worse for public discourse in the long run.
		Excessive bullshitting can eventually undermine the practitioner's capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not.
		I especially enjoyed the explanation that Bush's talk about Uranium from Niger in his 2003 State of the Union address was bullshit, since I've made that point quite a few times myself.
	www.atlanticreview.org /archives/337-Bullshit-and-Truthiness.html (1079 words)

	dack.com > web > web economy bullshit generator
		—Josh M. [the bullshit generator is] A huge step forward in the psychology of understanding the evolution between real human beings and the offshoot bloodline that spawns Executive Managers and their ilk.
		In another few years we should be able to understand and emulate their thought process so well we can replace them with computers and promptly put a strategy into place to cleanse the world of their evil presence.
		The Norman conquest served to enrich the English language, but the onslaught of business and academia threatens to diminish our language to the point where only vulgarities will have any fucking meaning.
	www.dack.com /web/bullshit.html (743 words)

	Site-9 Weblog: Is Ogilvy & Mather testing Bullshit Marketing for American Express ?
		A quick traceroute showed that the server is actually located in Belgium and it seems to be the firewall of the Belgian offices of WPP - the parent company of Ogilvy & Mather.
		I've gotten weird email asking me to pimp stuff for them on my blog in the past, but here's someone being asked to pimp American Express by someone saying they are a student studying advertising.
		Read more in We\'ve been had by Ogilvy person pretending to be a student.
	www.site-9.com /blog/archives/000471.html (1011 words)

	Penn & Teller: Bullshit! on Showtime - Read About the Truth Behind Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Whether demonstrating how history's most perplexing magic acts are performed in their sell-out Las Vegas show and TV specials, or producing their own series that pulls the wool off the public's eyes, Penn and Teller's mission is to expose the truth to an otherwise desperate and gullible public.
		In Penn and Teller: Bullshit!, the crusaders utilize principles of magic and trickery, as well as good old fashioned "hidden camera" sting operations, to smoke out these nonsense peddlers and reveal how they operate.
		No matter how popular a form of bullshit is - and regardless of what deep pockets or beloved figures support it - Penn and Teller are pit bulls for the truth, poised to tear down these myths in the most jaw-dropping fashion possible with their trademark wit and off-center comic sensibilities.
	www.sho.com /site/ptbs/about.do (1118 words)

	Bigfoot is Bullshit? \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I like their show for the most part, but even when I agree that something is bullshit, they tend to make me uncomfortable with their sometimes disingenuous presentation of facts and blatant editing or controlling of contradictory opinions.
		I enjoy Bullshit (the show) a great deal, even though Penn is a massive and unapologetic asshole.
		Anti-intellectual bullshit like your comment are exactly why people can sell trillion dollar wars over poorly forged documents - no one cares about truth or thinking critically.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/51251 (5547 words)

	Bullshit Generator
		And if it sucks, it may not be added at all.
		The bullshit generator made me feel right at home!
		I've been dared to write a spec for our site that includes at least one per paragraph — it's too tempting not to take the challenge.
	www.erikandanna.com /Humor/bullshit_generator.htm (508 words)

	Language Log: Bullshit
		On Language Log we spend quite a bit of our time analyzing one or another kind of bullshit about language.
		It is good to know that emeritus Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt has now provided us with a book-length analysis of the meaning of this important technical term.
		Frankfurt's On Bullshit argues that falseness of the bovine excremental variety is actually a greater danger to intellectual discourse than lies.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001903.html (137 words)

	BullshitJob.com - Humorous Home of the Bullshit Job Title Generator and Bullshit Job Quiz
		Tell Us About Your Bullshit Receive Bullshit In Your Mailbox This is Bullshit!
		The pay was much less and I had no benefits - but I had to take it or lose my unemployment checks.
		On my first day, I arrived promptly at 8:30 and they had: no desk, no chair, no computer, and nothing for me to do.
	www.bullshitjob.com (640 words)

	"Penn & Teller: Bullshit!" (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I don't understand many of the reviews here, suggesting that "thoughtful debate" should be the order of the day on this show.
		The show is called "Bullshit!" for a reason.
		You can count on any topic presented here as being something to be taken apart, limb by bloody limb.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0346369 (849 words)

	Bullshit! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Penn Jillette has stated that those being interviewed know which show the interview is for.
		However, during an episode dedicated to questioning the factual accuracy of the Bible, Penn Jillette said that Bullshit!
		Matt Stone and Trey Parker, friends of Penn and Teller, were motivated by this incident to create their own long-planned, controversial South Park episode lampooning Scientology, "Trapped in the Closet".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bullshit! (1259 words)

	BuzzMachine
		A commenter to my defense of bullshit on Huffington Post reminds us that when he ran for President in 1992, Sen. Tom Harkin was quoted by NBC’s Andrea Mitchell on TV news saying: “George Bush and his fat-cat Republican friends say they are building a Conservative Opportunity Society.
		And let’s not forget that Harry S Truman called MacArthur’s old-soldiers-never-die speech “nothing but a damn bunch of bullshit.” Fine his dead ass.
		I think I’ll have some fun and see whether any U.S. papers has the balls to call bullshit on bullshit.
	www.buzzmachine.com /?tag=bs (2295 words)

	A Million Little Lies - January 8, 2006
		We consider this preemptive strike on Frey's part as a waiver of confidentiality and, as such, this story will include some of his remarks during those sessions, which totaled about 90 minutes.
		But during these interviews, Frey did, for the first time, admit that he had embellished central details of his criminal career and purported incarceration for "obvious dramatic reasons" in the nonfiction work.
		We discovered the answer to that question in the basement of an Ohio police headquarters, where Frey & Co. failed to expunge the single remaining document that provides a contemporaneous account of his watershed felonious spree.
	www.thesmokinggun.com /archive/0104061jamesfrey1.html (2413 words)

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