The New Rules
Last night on The Ed Show on MSNBC, guest Heidi Harris, a Las Vegas-based hate radio star, explained it all for me. You see, people like Dr. Laura can run around shouting “nigger” eleven times on the...
View ArticleThe Party of Chicken Little
For as long as I can remember, Republicans of various stripes have been telling me and the world that the sky was falling, and yet, so far it hasn’t… Oughtn’t they catch a clue by now that, well,...
View ArticleFrom the Department of False Equivalencies
One can hardly argue that something awful hasn’t happened to our news media in the last few decades, but those actually in the media still steadfastly, and at times almost comically, refuse to see it....
View ArticleClicked Off
Ted Koppel, one of the last eminences of the old broadcast news era, weighed in some days ago on the never-ending debate about how things just aren’t as august as they used to be (whenever that was)...
View ArticleThe Great Divide
Over the weekend I accidentally got into a rather bitter argument with a righty; she seemed normal enough at first, but I found after a very short time that I couldn’t put up with her, because there is...
View ArticleCrazy Like a FOX
Everywhere you go today you’ll find another righty, from Sarah Palin on down, blaming crazy people for their craziness, loudly and revealingly attempting to exonerate not just their heinous words, but...
View ArticleRIP, Green 960
Whenever I’m working out of town, it’s always a treat to listen to a different lefty talk station; when I was in Napa over Thanksgiving I tuned in daily to Green 960, a San Francisco-based Clear...
View ArticleEt Tu, Allstate?
Never have I been happier to be wrong about something as I am now, having so confidently predicted what would happen, nothing, to the Bloated Bloviator as a result of his, uh, improperly chosen...
View ArticleFreedom of the Press
In the Guardian Saturday, the alert reader might have spotted this, buried in a deceptively bland story about Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp buying the LA Times and Chicago Tribune out of bankruptcy...
View ArticleR.I.P., KPOJ
For the first dozen or so years of my career in construction, I went to great lengths to provide audio entertainment for myself (and others working on my sites), and it was never easy. As far back as...
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