Rush Limbaugh’s network has lost millions of dollars this past quarter, and he may be on the way out. Apparently, the problem is that advertisers have fled his show in droves, especially after his rages against Sandra Fluke. But you knew he’d have an excuse: it’s all the women’s fault. Despite sources close to Limbaugh …
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Apr 24 2013
It’s Matthew Yglesias’ world: we just get blown up in it.
I haven’t had much use for The Lizard of K Street since he posted this sociopathic little gem in 2004: Did the president really gut the Endangered Species Act yesterday while no one was paying attention? So I’ve heard, at any rate. If so, good riddance. You’ll all yell at me, I suppose, but really: …
Apr 19 2013
Oh god yes yes
Oliver Knevitt has compiled his Top 5 Most Irritating Terms In Evolution Reporting. Read it, science journalists! They are: “Survival of the fittest.” Up yours, Herbert Spencer! “Living fossil.” What does that even mean? Do you really think modern coelacanths look anything like the ones from 100 million years ago? “Missing link.” It assumes a …
Apr 13 2013
Can we at least fire this one media lackey?
When the revolution comes, media lackeys will not be lined up against the wall. I have a better idea, inspired by Robert Johnson of Business Insider, who actually wrote an article titled THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GITMO STRIKE: Detainees Are Treated Absurdly Well. He had the gall to write this: While indefinite detainment without …
Apr 07 2013
Relax, everyone. It’s only a metaphor.
The Telegraph’s environment denier James Delingpole wants us to know he really doesn’t think environmental scientists and journalists should be executed: Should Michael Mann be given the electric chair for having concocted arguably the most risibly inept, misleading, cherry-picking, worthless and mendacious graph – the Hockey Stick – in the history of junk science? Should …
Apr 04 2013
A note to my friends, family, colleagues and readers of color
Joan Walsh doesn’t speak for me. I mean, I get her. I get the fear, the desire not to be lumped in with those bad other people who do the bad things. I get the desire to continue to enjoy the privilege of not having to think about my race day to day. I’ve been …
Mar 19 2013
Fair’s fair
I was mean to the History Channel yesterday — I mocked them for portraying Satan as a dark-skinned man with a resemblance to Obama. But you know, that wasn’t fair. It’s not as if that show about the Bible is full of coded racist references to appeal to the yahoos of America. Why, look here: …
Mar 18 2013
How not to read a graph
This ought to be on Skepchick’s Bad Chart Thursday. The Daily Mail — hey, why are you already groaning? — put up a graph to prove that global warming forecasts are WRONG. They say: The graph on this page blows apart the ‘scientific basis’ for Britain reshaping its entire economy and spending billions in taxes …
Mar 08 2013
You know who else was a great painter? Hitler.
Sorry for the excessive hyperbole, but I had to counter the sniveling sycophancy in this Fox News puff piece. Atlanta News, Weather, Traffic, and Sports | FOX 5 They’re impressed that it took “only a month” to teach him to paint like that? It shows. He’s going to go down in history as a great …
Mar 03 2013
As usual, it’s not the message, it’s the mere existence of atheists
American Atheists have put up a new set of billboards, with a “go godless” campaign theme. What’s interesting, though, is the media response: Atheists ratchet up rhetoric, use billboards to attack Republican politicians Hang on there…”Go godless instead” is ratcheting up the rhetoric? It seems like a rather mild suggestion to me — presenting an …
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