"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
Shape of Earth: Views Differ
There has been much said about Twitter, most of it negative, but Twitter is shining today. I realize this is highly perishable information, but at this moment the hot trending topics include #cnnfail, #iranelection, and #tehran. Apparently Iran can’t keep its citizens off Twitter, and they’re providing the news and photographic coverage our own media […]
Keith Olbermann calls for a boycott of Fox News. Boycott how? Here’s how: when you find yourself in a bar or restaurant with the TV set to Fox News, find an owner or manager and tell him you’ll take your business elsewhere if he doesn’t change the channel, and calmly explain why. Keith then lists […]
First it was Arthur Godfrey, now this. RV parks and barbershops everywhere will be draped in black. I grew up with Paul Harvey on the radio, and must admit I enjoyed his staccato delivery and homespun manner. At some point, of course, I realized “homespun” encompassed a lot of hatred. Hatred of blacks, of hippies, […]
When I grow up, I want to write police blotter reports for the local paper! From the Tucson Weekly, Feb 19, 2009: Police Dispatch By Anna Mirocha Semi-Insane East Benson Highway, Jan. 21, 7:04 p.m. A lone woman, possibly impaired by serious alcohol or drug ingestion, put her own life in danger and annoyed many […]
You couldn’t make this shit up if you tried: That a major metropolitan newspaper in the USA would print a cartoon like this shows you just how ugly it’s going to be for the next eight years. And you’d better get used to it, because the mouth-breathing racists in our midst who we thought might […]
Is it just me, or does anyone else think this Hero Pilot stuff is spinning out of control? I dunno, it hits me as wrong. Mawkish, lowest common denominator, on-display-for-your-beer-guzzling-delectation wrong. I’m surprised Sullenberger’s going along with all this. It’s like Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche: real pilots don’t strut around like peacocks when they […]
From 1981, a news report both touching and chilling: touching in its enthusiasm for the future, chilling in its failure to recognize an implicit threat. Oh, and I loved the part where the guy talks about being able to print what he sees on the screen! Why, you can PRINT IT ON PAPER! God we […]
“Death Map”: Where Americans Are Most Likely to Die You see a headline like that, you just can’t not read the article, right? I mean, if we’re less likely to die in Dubuque than in Tucson, hey, let’s all move there. Today! But you know there’s gotta be a gimmick. Too good to be true, […]