Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
One of today’s most emailed NPR stories discusses a book by Robert Jensen, a professor of media ethics and journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. In his book, Jensen purports to explain why all white people are in fact racists. I haven’t listened to the story, nor have
Continue readingI'm actually being a bit generous using the world "science" here, and I only use it because the newspaper article I'm going to savage uses the word — in the title of the article, no less. In fact, this is pseudo science being bent to make a political point: Bush
Continue readingI'm disgusted with the coverage of Al-Zarqawi's death, which focuses obsessively on how meaningless it is and how it will do little if nothing to make a difference in the President's war for oil. Oh, by the way, try telling that to the wildly celebrating Iraqis. The worst I heard
Continue readingLast week (or was it two weeks ago?) a CBS reporter was seriously injured, and two of her crew were killed. This was a front page story for a couple of days. It was a real tragedy. Did you know, though, that there was someone else involved too? I didn't
Continue readingI've been rather conspicuously silent about the whole Haditha thing. Until facts come out, rather than rumor, I don't really have anything to say. During times of war, even in the best regulated military, soldiers have been known to do some pretty awful things. You can't take young men, arm
Continue readingLittle Green Footballs has made available the audio of a beautiful speech Ayaan Hirsi made to the American Jewish Committee when accepting their award for moral courage. Like the lady herself, it was brave and graceful, and I urge you to listen to it. I was especially struck by her
Continue readingDuring lunch with Don Quixote, he noted that I ‘ve concluded that both the ideology of Islamofascism and its followers are completely evil. He’s right. I do. We had a great lunch-time discussion while I sought, in very convoluted fashion, why I thought this way, but still managed not to
Continue readingMy son is hypercompetitive, to the point where he'll sometimes bow out of an activity, rather than run the risk of failing. In the same vein, if an activity is not going well, he'll often do what all children do: quit. To combat this tendency, I recite a little epigram
Continue readingHere's the story, brought to you of jurors who still don't get it: A federal jury rejected the death penalty for al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui on Wednesday and decided he must spend life in prison for his role in the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history. After seven days of
Continue readingNOW, the National Organization for Women, is once again so busy attacking the Bush administration over abortion rights for pampered and protected American women that it simply has no time to deal with or acknowledge real acts of inhumanity committed against women. My reading today began by touching upon the
Continue readingYou only have to turn on the news, open the pages or the New York Times or attend an urban rally to know that Iraq is Hell on earth , comparable only to the Sudan or Rwanda. This is so because Iraq, which used to be such a peaceful place
Continue readingMaybe it's just objective news; maybe the AP is making a point. Who knows? All I know is that the AP is once again announcing the number of US forces who have died in Iraq: 2,392. This averages out to less than 1,000 deaths per year of war. While I
Continue readingWhen I was in high school, there was a bouncy pop song called "Cruel to be kind." In it, the male singer complained about how his girl hurt him, and quoted her explanation for the pain she cause: Cruel to be kind, in the right measure Cruel to be kind,
Continue readingBookworm was rather suddenly called away on a trip, so I'll be pinch-hitting for a while. Right now, all I've got is a question. My father sent me an e-mail with a picture of what was supposedly Casey Sheehan's grave, without a tombstone. Does anyone know whether it is true
Continue readingI found this great picture at Flopping Aces. He found it through Buck Sargent. I don't think I need to add any comment. UPDATE: G-Raze left a comment pointing to what s/he (don't know which) thinks is a tremendous irony: that I published this picture on the same day the
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