He does so gracefully, retiring rather than incinerating straw men.
|
|
Then he rolls out three straw men and sets them afire.
|
|
Its criticisms are a mix of reasonable objections and straw men.
|
|
Straw men bestrode the landscape, and paranoia and conspiracy theories flourished.
|
|
From such data, we can understand the two camps' choice of straw men.
|
|
The news reports did not identify any of the potential straw men by name.
|
|
They spent most of Wednesday stuffing straw men and then ostentatiously knocking them down.
|
|
The rest of it had more straw men in it than a corn maze.
|
|
But reversing these trends requires analysis of their causes, not evidence-free straw men.
|
|
The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.
|
|
Broad denials that create straw men, knock them down and then suggest the matter is settled.
|
|
Critics have an obligation to respond to what I said, not to create straw men to attack.
|
|
In her zeal to challenge evolutionary determinists, however, Ms Fine takes a swipe at some straw men.
|
|
It helps us understand this group not just as straw men but as people with knowable motivations.
|
|
But instead of constantly knocking down these straw men, we journalists could be focusing on larger investigations.
|
|
"We have heard of smoke and mirrors and political straw men," Ms. Lever said in a statement.
|
|
My critics now have an obligation to respond to what I said, not create straw men to attack.
|
|
And the variously incompetent, venal and cynical counselors, lawyers and "male experts on rape" are obvious straw men.
|
|
It's easy to treat people like them as straw men: one-dimensional, backward beings fueled by hatred and ignorance.
|
|
In trying to build straw men for Seb's traditionalism, the movie accidentally undermines its lead, and even worse, has some fun.
|
|
The hearing last week also confirmed that the arguments peddled by the left against him are total straw men and non sequiturs.
|
|
But when it comes to taste, the field seems to be populated by condescending straw men sneering down at us from their perch.
|
|
Before Trump, Fox & Friends would often attribute arguments to "some people" as a way to create straw men or make an anecdotal argument.
|
|
" Concluding his string of posts, he wrote: "Critics have an obligation to respond to what I said, not to create straw men to attack.
|
|
How do you get out of that very important concept of not making everybody straw men, not making everybody to make a larger point?
|
|
It's unclear whether a national readership has any interest in this reality, or whether its constituents are content to beat straw men to death.
|
|
When he failed to do any private-sector job well, including writing porn and working as a carpenter, he blamed free market straw men.
|
|
Launderers may use "straw men," or money laundering intermediaries, with clean records and corroborated employment, with direct deposit, to provide an additional layer of separation.
|
|
And the genius here is that Goose turns around and straight up bludgeons these straw men to death and then flicks a burning cigarette on them.
|
|
Critics, who often complain that Sopko has a habit of setting up straw men to knock down, say that's especially true in the case of the task force.
|
|
After he assigns straw men to your views, he enthusiastically attempts to knock them down with a theatrically earnest re-litigation of what you've missed about his brilliance.
|
|
Although political craft often includes cherry-picking facts and battles with straw men, Trump far exceeds the norm and has confounded analysts and pundits who try to assess him.
|
|
Deace then said Obeidallah's statements were why he often refused to go on talk shows, adding that people like him get set up to be foils and straw men.
|
|
The leading articles were about Ronaldo's finances, Doyen's aggressive T.P.O. deals, and a network of Argentine agents who used shell companies and straw men in the Netherlands to evade taxes.
|
|
Both identified straw men (and women) against which to campaign, scaremongering about the two least favorable groups in the minds of mainstream Israeli voters: ultra-Orthodox Jews, and Muslim Arabs.
|
|
Prosecutors are also reportedly probing whether some of the listed donors to the inaugural fund were actually just fronts, or "straw men," for money that was really coming from foreign governments.
|
|
"It's no surprise they continue to be dishonest and take things out of context in order to knock down their own straw men," committee spokesman Matt Wolking said in a statement.
|
|
Performance and pay at international level The issue has produced a lot of straw men, largely owing to a revenue and salary model that differs a great deal from most American sports.
|
|
But these were straw men ablaze with our deeper, less sayable grievances, namely the ways we had expected to be healed or completed by each other, and how absurdly we had failed.
|
|
"If forced to present options, the typical department will present two absurd alternatives as straw men bracketing its preferred option — which usually appears in the middle position," he wrote in his memoirs.
|
|
And because Ivanka alone can fix our problems, she opens her book with a pasture full of straw men, including the argument that our culture isn't having nuanced conversations about working mothers.
|
|
"As for the sidelong critique of me in the dissenting opinion of Judges Ho and Oldham, it is, respectfully, a pyromaniac in a field of straw men," he replied in his own dissent.
|
|
You also accused me of attacking some straw men: that the brains of males and females are categorically different; that individuals are uninfluenced by the environment; and that absolute levels of testosterone determine behaviour.
|
|
Indeed, the series opens with a flashback of Suleiman as a child rather than any introduction to Ryan, and there's obvious care taken to make the Muslim characters more than stereotypes or straw men.
|
|
We still see, even to this awful day following an awful weekend of mass shootings, conservative politicians casting about for these familiar straw-men to excuse their own complicity with the cost of doing firearms business in America.
|
|
Presented as a counterweight to "The Cove" — Louie Psihoyos's Oscar-winning 2009 documentary about dolphin capture and slaughter in Taiji, Japan — Megumi Sasaki's "A Whale of a Tale" is a rambling blend of complaint, tourism and straw-men arguments.
|
|
When compared to the rest of President Donald Trump's straw men administration, Nikki Haley might seem like a standard run-of-the-mill diplomat — she wasn't really the subject of headlines (or tweets) for the better part of 2019.
|
|
While the show derives its strength from offering a multifaceted, fleshed-out approach to how blacks feel marginalized in this environment, turning the whites into straw men (with a few exceptions) undermines the depth that the writing exhibits on other fronts.
|
|
"While they stick to knocking down their own straw men and trying to prove their predetermined political conclusions, Republicans are following the facts and working to provide answers to the families of the victims and the American people," he added.
|
|
But as the Zetas' dirty money flows toward him through a series of straw men and corporate fronts, José — with Agent Lawson on his tail — is quickly swept away into the rollicking and hay-scented world of western quarter-horse racing.
|
|
Judge Sutton considered worries like these to be "straw men" stemming from a "fertile imagination", but his rejoinders gave rather short shrift to the Supreme Court precedent from 2013 Judge White cited regarding "unconstitutional conditions": Agency for International Development v Alliance for Open Society International.
|
|
Consumer groups say that the examples O'Rielly uses in his blog entry to prove the FCC acted ethically are red herrings and straw men designed to distract from the broader problem: the merger itself and the FCC's blind fealty to the nation's largest corporations.
|
|
If you would like to improve your own lie detection, a good first step is to learn the common logical fallacies -- red herrings, appeals to ignorance, straw men and "ad populum" appeals to the bandwagon -- that purveyors of misinformation may use to create the illusion of truth.
|
|
Aptly described by Brooke as being those guys "that, like, run around with no shirt on, posting song lyrics that have nothing to do with the pic he's put up," Instagays are a particular brand of social media influencers who have become easy straw men when it comes to debates about toxic trends within the gay male community.
|
|
" The idea is that the new case deals with "an illegal shifting of taxes mandated be paid by an employer, on behalf of an employee, through the abusive tactics of the WWE as implemented by the racketeering and other activities of its Chairman Vince McMahon, who controls the WWE individually and through his family trusts and straw men.
|
|
"The Courtier's Reply, the Not My Theology Reply, and Straw Men". Common Sense Atheism.
|
|
Straw men are commonly used as scarecrows, combat training targets, swordsmiths' test targets, effigies to be burned, and as rodeo dummies to distract bulls.
|
|
Four singles have been released from the album: "The Planet Of Straw Men", "Paradise", "Who's My Eugene?" and "Braindrops". Music videos for the tracks "The Planet Of Straw Men", "Braindrops", "Who's My Eugene?" and "The Happiest Guy Around" have also been released. A different mix of the track "The Happiest Guy Around" had also previously appeared as the B-side to a split single with Liars in August 2018, as a part of the LAMC series of singles curated by Famous Class Records.
|
|
He also mistook his protagonist, John, as relatable to everyman. He said he was wrong in thinking that most people came to Christ the way he did. Philip and Carol Zaleski criticize Lewis for populating his book with straw men.
|
|
Stephan Kinsella rejects the dichotomy altogether, writing: "I have never found the thick-thin paradigm to be coherent, consistent, well-defined, necessary, or even useful. It's full of straw men, or seems to try to take credit for quite obvious and uncontroversial assertions".
|
|
First edition (publ. HarperCollins) The Straw Men is a 2002 crime novel by British writer Michael Marshall. Marshall has previously published some science fiction titles under the name Michael Marshall Smith, but following in the footsteps of Iain Banks and Brian Aldiss, Marshall has decided to swap names to denote a switch in genre.
|
|
The Straw Men is a book about serial killers. It opens with a scene set in a small American town, where a duo of gunmen open fire in a busy McDonald's fast food franchise. The remainder of the book jumps between two storylines. The first is a first person narrative piece telling us about Ward Hopkins, a young man going home to bury his parents after they suffered a car accident.
|
|
DJ Spooky. He also was a contributing writer to the book Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century. He popularised the term "metacrap" by a 2001 essay titled "Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia." Some of his non- fiction published between 2001 and 2007 has been collected by Tachyon Publications as Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future.
|
|
To reinforce the impression that the attack was not ready, a dummy water pipeline was constructed in "Operation Diamond", at an apparent rate of 5 miles per day. Two of Barkas's camouflage officers, Phillip Cornish and Sidney Robinson, supervised the work. Some days' worth remained to be built at the time of the actual attack. The pipeline was supported by dummy pump-houses, overhead tanks and filling stations, complete with straw men.
|
|
The Beaulieu group was thought to have had paid fake commission payments to a Libanese business family for years. They officially acted as middle man for the sales in the Middle-East and Russia, but according to the researchers they were simply straw men. Their commission payments on sold products were meant to scoop off the profits of the Beaulieu branches and were returned to the family in the shape of loans, investments or black market money. The case kept going for years.
|
|
In some places the straw-swathed characters are not intended to represent bears, and are simply known as straw men. The decline in popularity of straw characters in carnival today is thought to be largely due to the difficulty of obtaining straw of suitable length and quality. Modern farmers generally prefer cultivars with shorter straw, or use chemical sprays to make the straw grow shorter so that their crops are less prone to damage by storms. Artificial materials have replaced straw in a few places.
|
|
Gould prefers to focus on the commonalities between the humanities and the sciences, such as creative thinking and the psychology of transcendence and discovery. He discusses four historic periods in which the supposed Science Wars have been characterized falsely. In each case the strategy for either side has been to portray centrist members of the opposing camp with radical minority views of extremist straw men so as to easily defeat these misrepresentations of otherwise rational mainstream arguments. He stresses the dangers of presenting cut and dried dichotomies, such as good vs.
|
|
On January 25, 2006, he announced that he was running for Governor of Minnesota as an Independent, although he would seek the Independence Party's endorsement. In his campaign, his slogan was "Open Up Minnesota", and he promised to restore competency to a state government that he claims is gridlocked by partisanship. He promised not to campaign on what he calls "the 5 G's" -- guns, gays, God, gambling, and gynecology—which he claims are political straw men. The Independence Party's nominating convention was held June 24 at Midway Stadium in St. Paul.
|
|
Straw Men is a crime novel by the American writer Martin J. Smith (born 1956) set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It tells the story of a madman known as the Scarecrow, who has served in prison eight years convicted of a vicious attack that left a rookie policewoman near death and unable to remember her past. When DNA evidence surfaces that frees him, Teresa Harnett must face the possibility that her flawed memory put the wrong man behind bars. Only Harnett's nemesis, psychologist Jim Christensen, can help to solve the case.
|
|
Sasaki claims that she decided to make the film when she saw The Cove win an Academy Award. The New York Times called the A Whale of a Tale "a rambling blend of complaint, tourism and straw-men arguments" while The Hollywood Reporter praised it for delivering "a thoughtful riposte to The Cove even while providing plenty of opportunity for those opposed to the practice of killing or capturing whales and dolphins to make their case". A nonfiction book by Sasaki with the same title as the film was published by Shueisha in 2017.
|
|
Evolutionary psychology has generated significant controversy and criticism. The criticism includes: disputes about the testability of evolutionary hypotheses, alternatives to some of the cognitive assumptions (such as massive modularity) frequently employed in evolutionary psychology, alleged vagueness stemming from evolutionary assumptions (such as uncertainty about the environment of evolutionary adaptation), differing stress on the importance of non-genetic and non-adaptive explanations, and political and ethical issues. Evolutionary psychologists have argued that many of the criticisms against it are straw men, and are based on an incorrect nature versus nurture dichotomy, or are based on misunderstandings of the discipline.Segerstråle, Ullica Christina Olofsdotter (2000).
|
|
And if that non-specific rabble-rousery is a little on the vague side, the likes of "Stomp, push, shove, mush/Fuck Bush until they bring our troops home" should make it crystal clear. On a more base level, it's fucking fantastic to jump up and down and bang your head to, which is the level where politics and pop most effectively connect." Steve Jones of USA Today said that the song "[lambastes] President Bush and his war policies." The A.V. Club wrote of the song: "[Eminem] stops attacking scapegoats and straw men and finally goes after the people who actually wield power.
|
|
Courtesy of Björn Larsson and David Zekria collection. Article 17 of the company’s charter included the possibility for the company to use its shares for the purchase of aircraft. This was done to give Junkers Flugzeugwerk AG the possibility to deliver aircraft to the company. On August 2, 1922, 2,000 shares were transferred to Junkers Werke AG, Dessau and 2,760 shares were transferred to the Junkers-affiliated Danziger Luftpost GmbH from Danzig in exchange for two Junkers F 13 aircraft. Junkers Werke AG’s share remained the same throughout the company’s existence, but through so-called Treuhändervertrag (straw men agreements) it owned 100 % of the company.
|
|
This led some to speculate Liddiard's involvement with the band's new material "either as a guest or producer." On the 4th of March that year, the band's Flightless label announced that Tropical Fuck Storm had signed with them, and the band premiered "The Planet Of Straw Men" - the first single from what they announced to be their second album, set to be released "mid-2019" - and its music video. Later, on the 17th of June, the band released the second single from their upcoming album, "Paradise"; the name of the album was also revealed to be Braindrops the same day, and its release date was announced.
|
|
The pendant was eventually sold to the magistrates of the city of Basel, who had the piece assessed by a Venetian expert. The city also commissioned a watercolour miniature of it, which provides the earliest visual record of the Brothers (as of 2020 in the Basel Historical Museum). The jewel disappeared from view during the next years, as the magistrates feared that the House of Habsburg—inheritors of the Duchy of Burgundy—would reclaim goods that they considered as having been stolen from Charles. The jewel was at last put on the market in 1502, with two magistrates acting as straw men for the city to ensure plausible deniability.
|
|
He claims that the categories of "lifestyle anarchism" and "individualist anarchism" are straw-men. He alleges that Bookchin adopts a "work ethic" and that his favored themes, such as the denunciation of Yuppies, actually repeat themes in mass consumer culture and that he fails to analyze the social basis of capitalist "selfishness"; instead, Black calls for an enlightened "selfishness" which is simultaneously social, as in Max Stirner's work. Bookchin, Black claims, has misunderstood the critique of work as asocial, when in fact it proposes non-compulsive social relations. He argues that Bookchin believes labour to be essential to humans and thus is opposed to the abolition of work.
|
|
Eugenie Scott has pointed out that the book repeats many arguments by creationists that were previously discredited. Scott further criticizes Johnson's approach, which assumes science and evolution can be treated the same way as a criminal trial. Scott also points out that Johnson criticizes the theory of evolution for changing to accommodate new data, indicating a profound misunderstanding of this strength of science which must adjust theories in order to explain contradictory or new information, and the false dilemma used by Johnson as well as his use of straw men. In a second review, Scott again points out that the book is anti-evolution, that Johnson's arguments are recycled from scientific creationism.
|
|
Kirkus Reviews wrote: "Throughout Bruckner's debate, the tone of vehement insensitivity to possible ether points of view is reminiscent of the most egoistic American political writers. But Bruckner, as a novelist, has much greater verbal resources than most political hacks. Unfortunately, most of this is lost in an inept translation: in most political books, a humdrum translation may suffice, but Bruckner is so dependent on a musketeer-like verbal flourish that only the best French translators should have attempted this job." Writing in Foreign Affairs in 1987, Fritz Stern described the book as "a diatribe against the ideologues of Western guilt, against pious compassion with and exaltation of Third World countries" which "turns into a polemic, sometimes against straw men".
|
|
Political campaigning has a long history of this tactic in various forms, including in person, print media and electronically in recent years. This can involve when supporters of one candidate pose as supporters of another, or act as "straw men" for their preferred candidate to debate against. This can happen with or without the candidate's knowledge. The Canuck letter is an example of one candidate creating a false document and attributing it as coming from another candidate in order to discredit that candidate. In 2006, individuals practicing false flag behavior were discovered and "outed" in New HampshireSteele, Allison, "Bass staffer in D.C. poses as blogger: Bogus posts aimed at his political opponent", Concord Monitor, 26 September 2006 (URL last accessed 24 October 2006).
|
|
But, according to an 1839 Austrian games compendium, because the game depends more on luck than skill, it "would probably only be chosen by people who are completely unaware of the noble game of Piquet." Fortunately by no later than 1890, this "rather jejune game was ousted by a much better and quite different one"; a genuine two- player game in which the 'straw men' comprise three packets of four cards that form the initially unseen part of a player's hand. This later variant has been described as a "very attractive" game for two which is both challenging and very exciting. The only other two-handed Tarock game is the more complex Kosakeln or Kosaken ("Cossack"), which was introduced in the 1950s, but was more based on Illustrated Tarock than Tapp Tarock.
|
|
In a review of Meyer's article The origin of biological information and the higher taxonomic categories, Alan Gishlick, Nick Matzke, and Wesley R. Elsberry claimed it contained poor scholarship, that it failed to cite and specifically rebut the actual data supporting evolution, and "constructed a rhetorical edifice out of omission of relevant facts, selective quoting, bad analogies, knocking down straw men, and tendentious interpretations." Further examination of the article revealed that it was substantially similar to previously published articles co-authored by Meyer.Meyer and Deja Vu Revisited , Wesley R. Elsberry, The Panda's Thumb, September 26, 2004. Critics of Sternberg believe that he was biased in the matter, arguing that Sternberg's close personal and ideological connections to the paper's author suggest at least the appearance of conflict of interest.
|
|
Leenhof studied theology in the 1660s at Utrecht University under Voetius, and at Leiden University under Cocceius during the Voetian–Cocceian dispute. He served as pastor in Abbeville (1670–71), Nieuwvliet (1672–78) and Velsen (1680–81), before finally settling in Zwolle in 1681. During his first period of writing from 1673 until 1684, he fervently chose the side of the Cartesio-Cocceians against Voetian fundamentalism. He accused his opponents of smear tactics and straw men, denying the claim 'that out of Descartes' school come atheists and libertines'. However, a letter correspondence with Christopher Wittich (briefly his host in Leiden shortly before 1681), in which Leenhof defended Baruch Spinoza's views on substance and creation, was published after Wittich's death in 1687 without Leenhof's permission under the name Anti-Spinoza.
|
|
Critics have argued that despite publishing widely on social and political issues, Chomsky has no formal expertise in these areas; he has responded that such issues are not as complex as many social scientists claim and that almost everyone is able to comprehend them regardless of whether they have been academically trained to do so. According to McGilvray, many of Chomsky's critics "do not bother quoting his work or quote out of context, distort, and create straw men that cannot be supported by Chomsky's text". Chomsky drew criticism for not calling the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian War a "genocide", which he said would devalue the word, and in appearing to deny Ed Vulliamy's reporting on the existence of Bosnian concentration camps. The subsequent editorial correction of his comments, viewed as a capitulation, was criticized by multiple Balkan watchers.
|
|
He was elected to one of three seats for the district of Light in the House of Assembly in April 1878, despite public accusations that he had spent time in Pentridge prison, which he strenuously denied. It turned out the accusations were "straw men" set up by himself or a friend: he had not used the alias "O'Sullivan" in New Zealand, and had not been sent to Pentridge, but he had called himself "O'Reilly" in Tasmania, and had been sent to Melbourne Gaol. After the Register revealed that Carroll had been sentenced to two years' in Darlinghurst Gaol for uttering a valueless cheque, citing the Sydney Morning Herald of 22 August 1871, Carroll was forced to resign his seat in May 1878. He was tried by Judge Boucaut and jury for malicious libel in The Lantern of 23 August 1879 against James Hurst and the Mutual Trade Protection Association.
|
|
John Gray of The Guardian said in his review that it "masterfully debunked the myths of capitalism". Sean O'Grady of The Independent argues that 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism is testament to the ability of economically poorer nations becoming more powerful over time. Writing in the Financial Times, James Crabtree describes the points of Chang's rebuttal as ranging from "conventional left-wing claims" to "counter-intuitive ones" and highlights the close relationship between the rebuttal points and criticisms following the 2008 financial crisis. However, James Hannam, writing in the Huffington Post, re-visited the book three years after its publication and commented that many of the aspects Chang attacks are "straw-men", such as the claim that we do not have a free market due to the restriction of slavery, which Hannam criticises as a misrepresentation of capitalist claims because very few capitalists argue for a completely free market.
|
|