June, 2009 archive
Cause–>Effect, News Division 0
Words matter. Helen Philpott cuts to the quick:
Read the whole thing.
Afterthought: Of course, Fox News won’t fire Bill O’Reilly for not knowing better. They need him to attract and propogate the Know Nothings.
H/T Karen for the link.
Stray Question (Stray Answer) 0
Q. What’s the difference between “thoughts” and “ideation.”
A. The $130 an hour you pay someone to tell you that your thoughts are ideation.
Flair. for. the. Obivous. 0
El Reg points and laughs at a survey in the UKofGBandNI that found that
Wowsers.
Twits on Twitter 2
I guess somebody is twitting about something other than their lunches and doctor visits and convenience store purchases and latest self-back-patting.
Aside: I like Dells. I have four or five Dell computers in all sizes and shapes come to think of it, they’re all rectangular that have given me excellent value for the money and, the few times I’ve had to call tech support, they’ve been excellent (then, again, I don’t go up the wall simply because the person who answers the phone happens to speak with an accent).
If they can make money carnival-barking on Twitter, more power to them.
But I won’t be there.
All the Spews that Fits 0
Paul Krugman misplet “conservative media.” It’s “conservative Medea”:
But let’s not neglect the print news media. In the Bush years, The Washington Times became an important media player because it was widely regarded as the Bush administration’s house organ. Earlier this week, the newspaper saw fit to run an opinion piece declaring that President Obama “not only identifies with Muslims, but actually may still be one himself,” and that in any case he has “aligned himself” with the radical Muslim Brotherhood.
And then there’s Rush Limbaugh. His rants today aren’t very different from his rants in 1993. But he occupies a different position in the scheme of things. Remember, during the Bush years Mr. Limbaugh became very much a political insider. Indeed, according to a recent Gallup survey, 10 percent of Republicans now consider him the “main person who speaks for the Republican Party today,” putting him in a three-way tie with Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich. So when Mr. Limbaugh peddles conspiracy theories — suggesting, for example, that fears over swine flu were being hyped “to get people to respond to government orders” — that’s a case of the conservative media establishment joining hands with the lunatic fringe.
Complete Self-Unawareness 0
In Wingnut Fantasyland, up is down, green is blue, ignorance is knowledge, right is left.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Bloomberg (emphasis added):
Initial jobless claims fell by 24,000 to 601,000 in the week ended June 6, fewer than forecast and the lowest level since January, from a revised 625,000 the prior week, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The number of people collecting benefits rose for a 19th straight time to a record 6.82 million in the prior week.
Meanwhile,
And, on Top of Everything Else, It’s Lousy Coffee 0
The buzzword of the day, from Buzzwhack:
jitterati:
What the digital generation becomes after sipping one too many cups of Starbucks.
No Longer Number One 0
Mayor Bil Green once called the Philadelphia City Council “the worst legislative body in the free world.”
Now it’s number two.
Slow Escape 0
DART stands for Delaware Administration for Rapid Transit, though the acronym has outlived the name–it seems to be “Delaware Transit Corporation” now. And, no, I have not seen a bus dart anywhere.
I took DART to work for several years. The service isn’t bad, as long as your destination is downtown, rather than crosstown (change at Rodney Square).
Nevertheless, a DART bus would not be my choice for a getaway vehicle:
Oxy-Morons 0
Oh, my goodness.
Why I Went from Mildly Middle-of-the-Road Moderate to Rabid Card-Carrying Money-Contributing Leftie Liberal Take-No-Prisoners Democrat in Eight Long Years 2001-2008 2
Atrios sums it up.
Return of Beyond the Palin 0
Dick Polman on the Diva Dances at the the big Republican fundraising dinner that was held (Monday) night in Washington and the parallels between Newt Gingrich’s old lines and Palin’s new lines. A nugget:
And in the end, at the fundraiser last night, we got this gem of a line, courtesy of Pete Session’s welcoming speech: “Together, we are showing America that we are a unified party.”
