Nov 05 2012
So I checked the lead political story on CNN: CNN poll: It’s a dead heat Then I checked the lead political story on MSNBC: NBC/WSJ poll: Very close race with one day to go Feeling desperate, I even checked Fox News: CLOSING TIME: In Final Hours, Are There Still Undecideds Left to Swing? Do you …
Sep 16 2012
R. Joseph Hoffman is a flaming authoritarian, about as illiberal as you can get without joining the Tea Party. He’s very, very upset at Terry Jones and that gang of blithering idiots who assembled that terrible movie slandering Muslims, provoking riots in Egypt and Libya. Oh, and also his comrades-in-arms, Jerry Coyne, Eric MacDonald, and …
Sep 12 2012
Channel 4 in the UK made a program called “Islam: The Untold Story”, and got so many complaints and threats that they have cancelled the screening of the show. This is a disgrace: the program is a serious, historical look at Islam, and the protesters are complaining because it takes an objective look at the …
Sep 10 2012
And Jon Stewart, you are so good when you’re exposing them. The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook
Aug 26 2012
I saw that Doonesbury made a joke of it, so I had to look it up. It’s true. Americans were surveyed to see which presidential candidate they thought would handle a UFO invasion best. The channel surveyed 1,114 Americans in late May to get their thoughts on all things alien in anticipation of the channel’s …
Jul 23 2012
The NY Times is touting a computer simulation of Mycoplasma genitalium, the proud possesor of the simplest known genome. It’s a rather weird article because of the combination of hype, peculiar emphases, and cluelessness about what a simulation entails, and it bugged me. It is not a complete simulation — I don’t even know what …
Jul 19 2012
This is an account from Connie Schultz’s facebook page, so I’ll put the whole thing here for you fb-haters. Email from conservative blogger, dated July 9, 2012: Dear Ms. Shultz, We are doing an expose on journalists in the elite media who socialize with elected officials they are assigned to cover. We have found numerous …
Jul 19 2012
And credulous newspapers are helping that quack. The latest case is a little girl in Ireland with a disfiguring and deadly rhabdomyosarcoma who is trying to raise money to get the useless and totally fraudulent Burzynski antineoplaston treatment … and this article makes the good point that newspapers are helping to defraud sick people. Both …
Jun 12 2012
This is an annoying thing about newspapers: I discover browsing through yesterdays paper at the coffee shop that there is an excellent editorial cartoonist at the Star Tribune — he had a surprisingly anti-religious cartoon in the 11 June newspaper. I get online to look it up, and discover that the Star Tribune effectively buries …
May 03 2012
And it makes him weak. He recently interviewed David Barton, the professional liar and quote fabricator, and he was more interested in distancing himself from those fanatical atheists than he was in addressing the bullshit Barton was spreading. Barton claimed that there was some atheist group on the west coast that put up a billboard …
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