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Idiocracy
CPAC has been going on this week and interestingly enough, I happened to rent the movie Idiocracy on Friday.
The narrator has one of my favorite quotes as Joe, the hero of the movie, explores 500 years into the future for the first time:
Unaware of what year it was, Joe wandered the streets desperate for help. […]
Great Liberal Cover Ups in American History
Gotta love this Tom Tomorrow cartoon.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009The Latest GOP Phantom War
I received this alarmist e-mail from NewsMax today:
Radio Insiders, Congressmen Aim to Stop Fairness Doctrine
Moves are afoot to head off any Democratic efforts to reinstate the so-called Fairness Doctrine and stifle conservative talk radio.
A group of radio insiders has formed the Free Radio Coalition to fight the reinstatement, Radio America President James Roberts said […]
Sure Signs Your AM Radio Talk Show Host is About to Explode
I think El Rushbo is about to explode.
His rants are getting angrier and angrier and I think he’s starting to foam at the mouth.
His latest claim goes something like this: The Democratic plan has a very real chance of helping to stimulate the economy and create jobs and these people will then vote Democratic so […]
Conservatives and Their Enemies
Conservatives will tell you that it is clear that they are victims of a vast conspiracy and are under attack!
To find out who all these groups and people are, I started compiling a list while listening to conservative talk radio and reading conservative blogs.
Here is the list of some of the fringe groups that are […]
$700 Billion of Political Will
This is a story about 3 numbers and what these numbers tell us: $700 billion, $30 billion, and $1 million.
The $700 billion is of course the infamous financial bailout figure.
$30 billion is the amount the auto industry was asking for.
And $1 million is the amount of a contract awarded to a New Mexico transportation company that […]
Bruce Ivins, Credibility, and our Financial Markets
Something kept bothering me the other day as I listened to an interview on NPR discussing the evidence in the Bruce Ivins anthrax case.
I thought about it and thought about it and then it hit me what it was: I didn’t believe the story.
Now bear with me for a second. Because I’m not going to […]
Bush is No Batman
It was bound to happen. When I saw The Dark Knight this past week, I couldn’t help but note the allusions to the war on terror:
The Joker as the “terrorist” of Gotham
The technology that allows Batman to listen in to everyone in Gotham
And the comic-book morality that Batman can, in the words of Alfred, “make […]
Separating the Big Stories From the Little
In an interesting piece of candid self admittance, John Harris from the Politico, provides an interesting glimpse of how the media operates.
Politico’s editors are relentlessly focused on audience traffic. The way to build this traffic is to get links from other websites.
The way to get links from other sites is to be first with the […]