class 02/15/2012

example of a straw man fallacy:

http://pactiss.org/2010/05/30/straw-man-fallacy-from-dilbert/

active verbs vs. passive verbs:

http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~cainproj/writingtips/preciseverbs.html

recent "news" articles, full of fallacies:

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2012/02/15/bill-oreilly-are-we-welfare-nation-now

http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/ron-paul-newsletter-iowa-caucus-republican

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/

(note: these authors can both commit fallacies AND occasionally successfully point them out in others. how curious!)