User talk:Jscarry

nontroversy
Hi there. I thought that it was a debate stirred up by the news media that wasn't really controversial (because virtually everyone has the same views on the matter). SemperBlotto 17:45, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

The majority of the time this word is used it refers to things that rational people don't think are controversial, but a vocal group manages to get news/blog coverage for. e.g. Vaccines cause autism, schools should teach that the earth is 6,000 years old, ObamaCare has death panels, etc.

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Just a quick note about that whole silly missile/contrail non-troversy that popped up last week: the website Contrail Science has a pretty good and quite lengthy writeup of the affair,.

Pamela Geller—the conservative blogger who brought us the "Ground Zero Mosque" nontroversy and aspires to become the next Ann Coulter.

This will, I hope, be my last post about astrology for a while. Until and unless, at least, some other nontroversy pops up.

JScarry 17:59, 27 January 2011 (UTC)