11/08/2007
What would happen if torture was, um, torture? (in politics)
Editor & Publisher has an excellent column by Joe Galloway, a Bronze Star medal winner and a journalist 40 years ago in Vietnam. Galloway writes about witnessing waterboarding, and muses on why the Republican scum are so determined to perve ... Read More
11/07/2007
Only slightly more subtle than Fox News (updated with a sense of embarassment) (in politics)
The Washington Post today features a story about Dennis Kucinich's attempt to start impeachment proceedings against VP Dick Cheney. The Republicans and the Democrats are engaging in some sort of parliamentary ballet about this measure; it's ... Read More
11/06/2007
Video analysis by my paranoid self (file under propaganda) (in politics)
While I was away, Jon Stewart posted a clip from The Daily Show dealing loosely with the California wildfires, and media coverage thereof. It's quite funny: Arnold Schwarznegger is quite a schmuck, no? However, I would draw your attent ... Read More
10/16/2007
A few fact$ that probably will have no effect what$oever on the legal $ituation of the telecom$ caught $pying illegally for Bu$h on their cu$tomer$ (UPDATE) (in politics)
From the new book Digital Destiny by Jeff Chester of The Center For Digital Democracy: [...] federal candidates since 1990 have been given more than $183 million in campaign contributions by the communications lobby - $115 million of that sin ... Read More
10/14/2007
Man here says the Bush administration was spying on phone calls 6 months before September 11 (in politics)
The Washington Post and the NY Times both carried stories yesterday about allegations by Joseph Nacchio, former head of a telecom giant called Qwest Communications, former head of Bush's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, f ... Read More
10/13/2007
The general malaise in the media over the latest torture revelations (in politics)
Greg Mitchell (pictured), one of my fave columnists over at Editor & Publisher, weighed in this week with an examination of the media's general lack of response to latest Bush war-crimes revelations. He points out that some bloggers (not l ... Read More
10/12/2007
You haven't read all about it because you haven't been told all about it (in politics)
Project Censored publishes an annual list of The Top 25 Censored Stories Of The Year, and by "censored" they mean ignored by the major media outlets. This year's list just came out, and there's a good overview of it in The Fort Worth Weekly. ... Read More
10/10/2007
Fox News - The Ultimate Story (in politics)
Here's a story Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes can be particularly proud of. Fox News picked up from the web, and immediately rebroadcast as fact - with no effort whatsoever to ascertain the truth or falsity of this "news" story - a parody of ... Read More
09/27/2007
Ben Stein's money may be good, but his word is worthless (UPDATED) (in politics)
Famous TV personality, columnist and pro-creationist Ben Stein has been busy duping many reputable members of the scientific comunity. The New York Times reported today that Stein lured scientists of such high repute as Richard Dawkins into ... Read More
09/25/2007
Republican push to steal 2008 elections moves to Supreme Court (in politics)
The Republican effort to disenfranchise Democratic voters (remember the "election" of 2000?) has moved into the Republican-dominated Supreme Court. In an effort to prevent non-existent "voter fraud" (code for "poor people voting Democratic"), ... Read More