“Can’t jump over your own shadow” is one of my favorite sayings. Like you, perhaps, I recall testing out its truth when I was a child. More usefully, it speaks to a number of higher order syndromes that go under…
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You can’t jump over your Nir Rosen
Posted in International Relations Tagged with: Arab Middle East, Israel, Lara Logan, Media, Nir Rosen
Real World for Xmas?
Am connecting now on a friend’s laptop, off a weak WiFi signal stolen from a neighbor’s router. Time Warner Cable’s left helping hand doesn’t know what its right helping hand is doing – and seems to possess and to be…
Stupid? Or Evil? (Fox Proves The Only Way to Fight Terrorism Is To Switch Off Fox)
John Stewart at his best – the debate at the end is a classic. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Parent Company Trap www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party h/t: …
Reasoning facsimile
Anyone who’s never tsarred a blog may be unaware of the endless flow of “comment spam” that is intercepted before it can ever appear in the threads. At this moment, for instance, there are 14 comments caught in the Spam…
The Horror, The Horror
In a Facebook post entitled “Journey into the Media’s Heart of Darkness,” Sarah Palin writes of a “dark and demented conspiracy,” but no evidence of such a conspiracy appears in the material she references – 15 pages of e-mail exchanges…
Posted in Miscellany Tagged with: Andrew Sullivan, Journolist, Media, Sarah Palin, Trig Truth, William Jacobson
Cost of Islamophobia 3 – Islamism and Modernity
John asked for me to address the following point: [N]otwithstanding all the sects and interpretations of Islam that evolved in the agrarian age, all the relatively peaceful local practises mediated by saints, shrines, and the pragmatic needs of Islamic societies,…
Sarah Palin shouldn’t be pretending Glenn Beck is normal
No one much will ever likely care that Sarah Palin endorsed Glenn Beck in a puffy little capsule bio for Time Magazine’s 2010 list of 100 influential people, but I think it was a bad move for her – in…
Posted in Miscellany Tagged with: Founders, Glenn Beck, Mao, Media, progressivism, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, Van Jones
A journey to delicious and beyond…
This is one of the greatest TV Commercials of all time. It makes me proud to live in a country where TV Commercials like this one are produced. And if you disagree, then you’re worse than Greg Gutfeld.
I'm a cancer, he's a cancer, she's a cancer, we're a cancer…
Last night, J.E. Dyer replied to “The Point of Being Annoyed with Glenn Beck” (at HotAir here), and to related comments at her blog The Optimistic Conservative. (For anyone new to the discussion, “The Point…” was itself framed as a…