Imbecilic
October 20, 2010Politics does make strange bedfellows, as the saying goes, but in the US for this election cycle, it’s complete bat-shit-crazy — one wonders if there’s a certain element here that’s been created by some demented…
Tag Archives: infotainment
In the Sweet By-and-By
October 17, 2010The future has been downloaded into just about right now. “If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs,…
Everything’s Cool — ‘Trust Me’
September 30, 2010Not! A new Gallup poll indicates a majority of US peoples don’t trust the mass media — Trust in the media is now slightly higher than the record-low trust in the legislative branch but lower…
Another Bob
September 28, 2010Once again, and I couldn’t help, another post on Bob Woodward and the state of journalism as it covers national politics and war. As a nit-wit young reporter, in the original viewing of “All the…
News Views
September 14, 2010Although informative and hilarious, the TV news programs on Comedy Central present a stark, and sad reminder of just how bad journalism in general (or honest-to-goodness news gathering) has become in the last few years.…
Friends
July 28, 2010Lack of friendship is supposedly worse on your well being than a Quadruple Bypass Burger from the Heart Attack Grill. From Reuters on a report released Tuesday by a research team at Brigham Young University: Having…
Pass This On…
December 21, 2009Must-read on the twisted-horror of the US Senate health care bill at FireDogLake. Politics and the human condition.
Another Gone
December 10, 2009Highlights the desperate plight of news gathering: Editor&Publisher, an authentic cornerstone of journalism will cease publication at the end of this year. The announcement was made Thursday on its online site. An interview today with…
Info Ugly — News-Watching Sucks
October 22, 2009There’s little doubt we’re alive in one of the most-interesting periods in world history as all kinds of nefarious enterprises are starting to come to real-bad fruition — unlike other past-historical upheavals, however (there’s a…