If you think that this nefarious yet difficult to pin down connection between Barack Obama and Rod Blagojevich will go away after a while, think again. After all, Whitewater was a another completely baseless made-up scandal, and they’re still talking about it today, more than fifteen years later.
They’re gonna ride this pony till it dies, [...]
Category Archives: Media
Made Up Scandals
I Am Nobody
Questions are swirling about Obama’s connection to Rod Blagojevich. It’s not that I’m begging the question. The questions themselves — they swirl. I am nobody.
Corporations are guilty of neglecting their workers’ safety, the environment, and financial ethics. Now, it’s not me, the CEO of this particular corporation, who is guilty of these things. It’s the [...]
The Future
An hypothesis has been stated that the intellectual effectiveness of a human can be significantly improved by an engineering-like approach toward redesigning changeable components of a system.
AUGMENTING HUMAN INTELLECT: A Conceptual Framework — 1962
Here. You can watch the demo of the computer mouse, graphical user interface, word processing, hypertext with links, and shared editing of [...]
Prop 8 The Musical
Prop 8 The Musical is getting sent around and yes, it is quite funny. But it’s also quite a month too late.
This complaint is not to blame the comedians who made it. It’s not the job of comedians to anticipate how electoral politics will play out. However, there is someone whose job it is to [...]
I Have A Feeling We’re Going To Be Hearing A Lot Of This Drivel In The Future
‘At Least Bush Kept Us Safe’ — Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Yeah, Bush kept us safe, if you don’t count the biggest terrorist attack in the history of the world, and New Orleans getting completely demolished, and four thousand soldiers killed in Iraq and thirty thousand soldiers wounded, not to mention ninety thousand dead Iraqis [...]
Bjorn Borg Clothing Ad
Does that ad mean that wearing International Jock Underwear is now a statement?
Oh Please Dear God No
Poll: Chris Matthews Only Trailing By Three Points In Possible Senate Bid
Not that I love Arlin Specter, but could it be that Pennsylvania just can’t feel at ease with itself unless we have one complete whackjob in the Senate?
Conspiracy Theory: Wall Street Journal Edition
One suspects the terrorists spent far too much time listening to the BBC World Service.
Let’s hasten to add that by no means should the BBC alone be singled out. When it comes to terrorists and their grievances, nearly all the Western media have provided them with a rich diet on which to feed.
Media Narratives Feed [...]
Creative Commons Gets Legit
Change.gov is licensed under Creative Commons. It used to be that Creative Commons was something that only amateur musicians, fan fic authors, and people who post to Slashdot cared about. But now it’s something of interest to amateur musicians, fan fic authors, people who post to Slashdot and the President of the United States of [...]
What Is Meant By Consumerism
The word, consumerism, is thrown around a lot. It seems that oftentimes the word is used to mean something along the lines of, “Golly, we buy a lot of crap.” But I think it has a much more specific and higher-level meaning.
At a newsstand today I saw the front page of a USA Today. [...]
