‘Managed’ News
October 16, 2009Journalists covering the White House, especially those from TV, sometimes tend to think of themselves as above the crowd, as better than the average asshole reporter digging for stories down in the trenches. As Nadia…
Category Archives: Media
Whoa!
October 9, 2009Friday morning shocker: President Obama has has won the Nobel Peace Prize — “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.†And the Nobel Committee added: “He has created a new international…
Climate Change Choo Choo
October 8, 2009There’s something I just don’t understand regarding climate change/global warming, although there’s plenty of opinions (Truism — opinions are like assholes, everybody’s got one) about this horrifying weather/sky/ground/ocean-related event barreling square at humanity, and with…
‘Bratty’ And Not At All Funny
October 5, 2009“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.†— Oscar Wilde (Illustration found here). The so-called Republican Party — the GOP — has descended into nothing…
Work is Job One
October 3, 2009Today one year ago, Hank Paulson and his boys ignited TARP — Troubled Asset Relief Program — the $700 billion bank bullshit bailout that has done nothing to relieve the economic woes of US peoples.…
News! Cat Wags Dog’s Tail
October 1, 2009A lot of shit bubbling in modern life’s drainage ditch — on the toilet with a bit of news. General Alarm In pushing President Obama even further back into the corner of Afghan war escalation,…
Spies, Lies and No Video Tape
September 30, 2009A major, major story, though few in the US are even aware of it. (Illustration found here). Via The Brad Blog on Monday, Marc Grossman, a former US ambassador to Turkey and George Jr.’s third-ranking…
Fragments from a place far, far away and long, long ago
September 24, 2009Announced quietly last week was the death of Jody Powell, 65, press secretary to Jimmy Carter, ‘A leader for a change,’ whose presidency inadvertently was the last apparently in Americana’s more sane and serene view…
9/11/01
September 11, 2009This from Josh Marshall and his fledging Talking Points Memo on Sept. 11, 2001 — unaware of even a worse horror coming: TPM, of course, is normally all about arguments among us, among Americans. But…
Tortured Reading
September 5, 2009“They stuff people’s heads down the toilet the first day at Stonewall,” he told Harry. “Want to come upstairs and practice?” “No, thanks,” said Harry. “The poor toilet’s never had anything as horrible as your…