The Headline:
Bush to pressure Senate to revive U.N. sea treaty
Critics say it would put 70% of globe under control of global bureaucracy
Uhh…That is the weakest scare headline ever. The fish are all going to have their sovereignty! Notice, however, that the wingnuts have started to abandon Bush and returned to there old Clinton-era ways of assuming the government is evil and plans to turn the US in to some sort of totalitarian hellhole, administered by the UN with high taxes and no bible.

..in the short but storied history of “profile photo galleries”. I won’t link to it, because it isn’t done and I prefer not to reveal who pays the rent and the $10 a month I pay for this site. Suffice to say, it is awesome, or it better be, because I worked 70 hours a week for the last two weeks doing it. Anyhoo, back to the neglected business of blogging. So, I have read a few books, and tried to pay attention to the news in my complete emersion in the arcana of Javascript, JSON and our crazy ass new photo backend.

The first thing I would like to direct our loyal reader(s) to is the site “World Net Daily“. If you aren’t reading it already, you should be. It is a repository of bat-shit crazy wingnuttery that is so completely off the deep end its approaching the Weekly World News. The best feature is that it tries to cram all the weird wingnut stuff in. New World Order, the Invasion of the Brown Hordes, Taxes are Too High, Liberals are Babykillers.

It parodies itself…. Read the rest of this entry »

What distinguishes the responsible media, like Media Matters, from irresponsible pundits, like those on FoxNews, seems to be a concern with communicating clearly to a public audience as opposed to using words in ambiguous ways that paint a veneer of legitimacy over unsound, illogical arguments. For an excellent example of Media Matters unmasking of right-wing talking heads’ bullshit, see their article, “like rain on your wedding day”:

“Cavuto suggests it’s hypocritical for Edwards, a wealthy man, to want to eradicate poverty. And it’s what the Washington Post’s Bill Hamilton suggested when he justified front-page placement of the article about Edwards’ house sale by pointing out that it involved a “presidential candidate [who] just happens to be a millionaire who is basing his campaign on a populist appeal to the common man.” But it is no more an example of “hypocrisy” for a rich man to want to help the less fortunate than it is “ironic” to have a black fly in your Chardonnay or rain on your wedding day. That just isn’t what the word means.”… read more…

(yet, we shouldn’t be so harsh on Alanis’s use of language, since she has redeemed herself with this parody of the even worse linguistic transgression of ‘my humps’.)