Okay people, read the disclaimer at the bottom of this page. Some of you haven’t, and assumed that I endorse the site below. Warblogger Watch is not Spinsanity. [ via Random Walks ] Blogger made it easy for anyone to publish online. Many of those people hold opinions that may cause shock and dismay. Warblogger [...]
Over at What She Really Thinks, Ginger Stampley mentions a ‘re-revision’ of medieval history where the Crusades were a defensive war. Wow, the Conservatives are really cranking up the propaganda. I guess their solution to terrorism is forced conversion of the Islamic world at sword point. Someone get Ann Coulter a cuirass and a horse. [...]
[ via RRE ] Doesn’t anyone remember the Alien and Sedition Acts? McCullough and Kennedy fail to realize that there was a reason for earlier generations of leaders not turning the Adamses into monuments of democracy: earlier generations of leaders actually understood the Adamses. To be fair, the Congress voted that stinker into law. However, [...]
[ via RC3.org ]Lessons from Brock’s mea culpa: When billionaires do support more or less liberal causes, they usually try to help the world, not take over the U.S. political system. Not to put too fine a point on it: While George Soros was spending lavishly to promote democracy abroad, Mr. Scaife was spending lavishly [...]
I bet the really funny part was when Quayle called directory assistance to find Tony Soprano’s number. You have disrespected the ‘Bing, Mr. Prime Minister.
The Alicubi Journal’s Crank Watch column goes in my bookmarks. Here they take apart Andrew Sulivan, the Quisling of the Castro (okay, he lives in DC), and his claim that ‘increasing numbers of Conservatives support Gay Rights’: Of course these “numbers” are growing, we cannot help but observe: They could scarcely go down. Despite the [...]
[ via Doc Searls ] I’ve been reading a facinating essay by philosopher and cognitive scientist George Lakoff. He identifies and describes the metaphors at the core of Conservative thought that explain such seeming paradoxes as being anti-reproductive choice, yet pro-death penalty. He argues that both the Conservative and Liberal worldviews share the “Nation as [...]
[ via Flutterby ] We may have Mullah Ashcroft in the DoJ, but at least we don’t have the UK’s Blasphemy laws. The archaic laws, which only pertain to Christianity, have been mustered by a group of evangelicals to bludgeon a popular UK TV personality for reading a Gay themed poem on the BBC. One [...]
Okay, another perspective on Islam. Well, maybe not. The writer seems to more interested in attacking Jarred Diamond’s thesis than Islam. There’s a lot of screed here, but the thing you can take away from it is that the totalitarian governments of the Middle and Near East utilize anti-American sentiment to stay in power, and [...]
Ralph Reed, the man most deserving of an ironic punishment in Dante’s Hell, received $380,000 to enlist the aid of ‘pro-family’ and other conservative Christian groups to lobby for Enron. “In public policy,” [Reed] wrote, “it matters less who has the best arguments and more who gets heard — and by whom.” Yes Ralph, but [...]
[ via Boing Boing Blog ] After reading the A to Z of Britney, it’s easy to see that Britney is America: wearing slutty outfits while mouthing homilies to Jesus and the GOP. What’s scary and sad is I think she believes her own hype. I forgot to cite Boing Boing… sorry.
Meanwhile, Phillip Winn’s wondering why we are all so focused on Enron. Aside II:I’ll get his name right given enough iterations. Aside: I got Phillip’s name wrong. And coming back to this entry I realized why: Steve Winwood. My brain must have been listening to “The Low Spark of the High Heeled Boys” when I [...]
[ via Doc Searls ] George Lakoff’s essay on 9/11 enlightened me as to why people can react to the attack the way many people, including Bush, did. If you accept you’re in a war between absolute good and evil, you’re able to things you’d otherwise dare not do: Nothing is more important than the [...]
The rhetoric of the Drug War knows no bounds. David Kurtz comments on the Superbowl ads: Such a simplistic approach is easily (and rightfully) dismissed by anyone with a modicum of critical thought. The Colombian drug lords do not make a habit of blowing up their customers on international stages. They bleed them slowly in [...]
Don’t let the anti-globalization crowd let you think they have a monopoly on dissent. It’s always instructive to read Lance’s Davos Newbies Weblog. Where else would you see Bill Gates and Bono gang up on Paul O’Neil?