‘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…
Tag 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…
Words and the Looneytune GOP
February 8, 2009This morning a note on words misplaced by right-wing, wingnuts suffering intently from schizophasia in a most non-oblique fashion. An ex-Detroit Lions coach had to apologize for being nasty and petulent last month after saying…