Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan But what about alternative facts? — 2017 by Carole McNall I’m cruising my Facebook feed when […]
Your opinion vs. mine: where are the facts we can agree on?
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By Tamara Enz When I was in third grade, the elementary school principal came into our class to speak with the students. I don’t now remember what the primary reason was for […]
Just Asking
Dear Mr. Trump, Even China cannot compete Against a global economy. They must isolate nations, Hence Brexit, Hence the Philippino position So hostile to Obama and the TPP. Duterte is your first […]
Panic Button: glass house candidate throws stone
Hypothetically, let’s say you lost the Nevada primary because of your failed efforts to suppress the vote in 2008. Specifically, you attempted to suppress the vote of a particularly powerful union, the […]
Amusing ourselves to death: new Sciencegasm meme nails it
The public interest is what the public is interested in, bitches. Thanks to Facebook, we all see new memes every day. Some of them are funny, some insightful, and a lot are […]
Limbaugh brays on: louder, emptier, closer to the end
Limbaugh is slowly dying, like the dinosaur that he is, bit by bit. As sponsors escape, he doesn’t need any help from the FCC. Thus, I disagree with calls that he be fired. Just watching him losing advertisers is a joy in itself – the beginning of the end.
The Komen "reversal": a crushing failure of America's newsrooms
Yesterday I attempted to shed a little light on the PR crisis strategy behind the Komen Foundation’s sudden Planned Parenthood “backtracking.” Contrary to what Komen’s highly-paid PR crisis hacks and gullible headline […]
NASA, American exceptionalism, and me: older, and less viable
Fourth in a series As a child turning teen in the late 1950s, the black-and-white RCA in the living room received only three channels … well, four, but we didn’t watch PBS. […]
News-of-the-World-gate: the empire strikes back
This just keeps getting better and better. Alexander Cockburn is right—this is just like Watergate. The steady drip, drip, drip of bad news. The iconic hate figure, a man who pretty much […]
Trouble in Murdochland redux
A couple of months ago we noted that things were not going all that well in Murdochland, what with investigations heating up over allegations that phone hacking–that delightful pastime of hacking into […]
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