This blog is now read by more machines than humans: RSS robots, spam-laying insectopoids, echoes of blog-gathering .edu projects. This essentially is the state of affairs that all human activities w
Cleaning Up the Nation
Austin Bay:
If Air America were a conservative radio network its corrupt funding trail and cynical abuse of a poverty program would be front page news at the NY Times and full-time mega-scandal at
Rank Materialism
Freedom. I am now the proud new owner of a Gateway 6020GZ laptop, perfect for students and others with limited means. I can now go into a Starbucks or a Barnes & Noble and look like I'm doing some
Fallujah Fonda
Uh-oh. From the Telegraph comes this exciting news:
Jane Fonda is returning to anti-war activism and embarking on a cross-country tour to call for an end to US military operations in Iraq.
Acros
John Pilger: Partner in Terrorism
In an outrageous piece of terrorist propaganda appearing on the cover of today's New Statesman, John Pilger puts the blame for the 7/7 London attacks not on the terrorists, but rather on Tony Blair:
Month 5/2004
Wily Al-Qaeda 'Militants'
The damned BBC reports:
Figures in the Saudi royal family say they are confident that they are winning the battle against al-Qaeda.
At least 22 civilians, including foreigners, were killed in a
No Milk for Oil
Message to all those who support electric cars:
I've had a similar change in heart, and have already instituted the following earth-friendly policy in my homestead. I will no longer get my milk fro
Behind Enemy Lines
Nick Berg's dad Michael about his son's killers:
I am sure, knowing my son, that somewhere during their association with him these men became aware of what an extraordinary man my son was. I take
Palme d'Or Or Let's Pretend
To no one's surprise, Fahrenheit 9/11 won the Palme d'Or prize at Cannes. This BBC article says "Michael Moore's film was originally set to be released in the US through Disney subsidiary Miramax, bef
Freedom Rings
We're number 4! We're number 4!
City clerks began handing out marriage-licence applications to gay couples just after mid
It's a Strange, Skewed Perspective
Until Fahrenheit 9/11 comes out, we'll have to make do with making fun of the reviews. Well that's rather close-minded of me, isn't it?
Peter Bradshaw reviewed the film for the Guardian. Throughout
Report Quashed
I'm beginning to see that criticizing articles from the likes of Reuters and AP could become my life's work, or at least put a really big dent in my day. Reuters has a report whose title, Pentagon See
12 Steps for AP, Maybe?
OK. Here's Arafat:
Find what strength you have to terrorize your enemy and the enemy of God. And if they want peace, then let's have peace.
The terrorist enablers over at AP explain that Arafat
Meanwhile, In Havana
In non-Iraq news, there was a protest in Cuba today against the new US sanctions. Reuters has an even-handed take on the matter.
Oh, wait. I don't mean "even-handed". I meant to say that the Reuter
The Berg Video
Like other sites, I'm being deluged with hits from people using search engines to find "the video". This phenomenon in itself deserves some attention. And I'm sure it'll get it. But not by me right no
Even More Liberal Media
The new David Brock site, Media Matters, has an article attempting to rebuff claims made on Fox News Watch.
On May 1, two panelists on FOX News Watch asserted that Senator John Kerry has a "credibi
Praise and Reward
How to train a dog:
Keep your dog's lessons short, and break lessons down into small sub-tasks. Dogs learn in very small steps, and they have short attention spans for formal training.
Be sure y
Palme d'Or Or Let's Pretend
To no one's surprise, Fahrenheit 9/11 won the Palme d'Or prize at Cannes. This BBC article says "Michael Moore's film was originally set to be released in the US through Disney subsidiary Miramax, before Disney blocked it," which some of us know to be a lie.
What makes the BBC article weird though is the elephant in the room that no mainstream media source will ever admit: that the film won the prize because nearly the whole of the film industry, both American and foreign, is a bunch of lefty transnational progressivists who want the US to lose the war in Iraq. And when the industry is partying in France, well that's just pouring gasoline on a fire.
To report this story without that background information is almost like lying. It's propaganda feeding on propaganda. "Film industry publicly congratulates film that reinforces their political ideology. Pictures at 11." The movie did not win because it was the best film presented there. It's not like the flick won because of it's clever use of mise-en-scene. (I haven't seen it, yet you know I'm right.) The movie won because the fifth columnists from Hollywood united with their natural anti-American allies in Europe to bash the United States. Shouldn't the BBC report this aspect of the story?
That's a rhetorical question of course. The media won't say that. They pretend not to notice such things, though it couldn't be less obvious. Naturally there's no problem reporting the bias of the oil or tobacco or auto industries, money-grubbing, influence-buying curs that they are. They're evil. But the movie industry, they're artists only seeking to improve the world. They've no horse in this race but peace. Power to the people, who are in show business and eat at Lutece, or Spagio, or wherever the hell you're supposed to be seen these days.
So it's a big game of let's pretend we're criticizing US policy from a neutral position. It's just like Jimmy Carter winnng the Nobel Peace Prize, not for criticizing Bush, but because truth will out. Sure, why not? It might be more convincing to those dupes in Peoria.
And of course this doesn't exactly encourage me to go back to buying French stuff again.
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