Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
San Francisco is a small town and I knew Naomi Wolf when we were both young. With the best will in the world, I didn’t like her. Okay, I’m lying — I didn’t have the best will in the world. I was an insecure teenager, and viewed with hostility anyone
Continue readingIf I remember correctly, the New York Times was not that upset about a tax funded school in New York devoted to giving Muslims a proper Arabic and Muslim culture education. I guess it was just sleeping the day that news story came out. Today, it’s wide awake and really
Continue readingAs you may recall, a couple of days ago I asked why there had been no comment whatsoever in the conservative blogosphere about a New York Times op-ed piece in which seven active duty soldiers criticized the Iraq War. In updates to that same post, I was able to point
Continue readingIf I were to choose someone to write my obituary, I would want someone who wrote beautifully and and an unerring sense for getting to the heart of a matter. I would hope that the writer would have a soft spot for me, of course, because with that skill and
Continue readingThe FBI did something unusual: it was so concerned by two men who seemed to be casing the Seattle Ferry system that it asked for the public’s assistance. To that end, it asked the media to publish a picture taken, not by covert FBI surveillance, but by a ferry employee.
Continue readingWhy am I ashamed? I’m ashamed because I didn’t even know that there was a radio talk show network directed at women. How in the world could I have missed that! And yet today I suddenly discover that, while I was blithely listening to Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt and Michael
Continue readingYou’d think that the most recent fauxtography story would have provided ample warning to the AFP that people are watching and that the media can no longer blithely get away with dishonesty. But no, just as General Honore, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina gently chided a reporter for being
Continue readingIt’s old news in the blogosphere, but I was very pleased to see that The Telegraph, one of Britain’s three main newspapers had as a top story (online) Steve McIntyre’s find that NASA climate information was in error: A US blogger has caused a stir in the climate debate by
Continue readingCliff Thier is looking ahead to the possibility that the 2008 election will see Hillary and Rudy competing against each other in the White House. With that in mind, he’s come up with a great idea for a campaign commercial. Aside from liking the idea, I think it’s incredibly important
Continue readingRemember Rage Boy, the Mick Jagger of Pakistan, who showed up at every rally, with his wide mouth screaming its outrage at America? Turns out that Rage Boy has a friend, Anguished Woman. She’s the one who roams around in the middle of chaos screaming, and she’s now got the
Continue readingPhyllis Chesler mounts a blistering and entirely appropriate attack against the New York Times. I especially enjoyed the first two paragraphs, which also described my transition from Leftie to Rightie, including the change in reading material: Once upon a time, I only read and wrote for the most radical, left,
Continue reading(The picture above is a print from 1790 showing the mutiny on the Bounty.) Fairy tales are enjoyable on one level and, on another level, they’re quite useful to pass on cultural messages. Little Red Riding Hood is a great story with its exciting (for kids) repetition of the “But
Continue readingI’m on another vacation, sitting in a cyber cafe, working at a small computer with a microscopic keyboard, so it must be random thoughts day. Thank goodness DQ is doing the heavy lifting. The first thing that caught my interest is what Mitt said at the debate, which I really
Continue readingAce deconstructs The New Republic‘s most recent attempt to explain away Scott Thomas’ rather strange, and almost impossible to corroborate, claims about his macabre and novelistic experiences in Iraq. The more one learns, the more it seems that Thomas wanted to write a semi-biographical version of the great anti-War novel,
Continue readingAt Small Dead Animals, Kate caught an amusing moment in which the Canadian media dropped its pants and flashed its biases for all to see and then, in response to raised highbrows in the blogosphere, hastily redressed itself and pretended objectivity. UPDATE: Here’s the companion piece to Kate’s catch, this
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