January 2011
44 posts
Holy Cheops Batman! Egypt has shut down the... →
Stephen Fry explains how GPS and the Internet work... →
Terrorism directed at 'liberal' and 'government'... →
“The internet doesn’t care.”
– Vinton Cerf (via moorewr)
Tennessee Tea Parties demand textbooks contain no... →
“At a press conference, two dozen activists presented their proposals — I’m sorry, their “demands” — for the new state legislative session. Among them are sweeping changes to school materials that they probably have not actually read.”
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McCain Calls Obama a 'Patriot,' Rejects Critics... →
Fred Phelps is a Con Man. Why the Westboro... →
Flu had Toronto ERs beyond capacity →
“— July 2008: A gunman named Jim David Adkisson, agitated at how “liberals” are...”
– Eighteen examples of right-wing domestic terrorism detailed by freelance journalist and author David Neiwert (via Digby)
“Sounds like a lefty to me. All the lefties has the same mental problems as the...”
– Commenter on FOX Nation over the bizarre You tube videos of Arizona shooter Jared Lee Loughner.
http://nation.foxnews.com/gabrielle-giffords/2011/01/09/watch-gunmans-bizarre-youtube-videos
Fox News: The No. 1 Name in Murder Fantasies →
Bill O’Reilly’s recent “joke” about decapitating Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was only the latest example of a demented Fox News culture that permits on-air personalities to fantasize about assassination and other forms of violence against those deemed enemies of the station, its personalities or their worldview.
During the cable channel’s 2008 election coverage, in what she later...
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“Q; Was Tron Legacy Worth it?
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A; “Absolutely! I’m going to see it...”
– Some Failbook user.
Scientists Successfully Manipulate Qubits with... →
private collectors are auctioning off a bunch of... →
Medical Journal Calls Anti-Vaccination Study an... →
jonathan-cunningham:
militantagnostic:
A 1998 study in the Lancet medical journal claiming a link between vaccines and autism was retracted last year for being scientifically unsound. But a new investigation claims the study wasn’t just wrong—it was also an “elaborate fraud.”
Wakefield “chiseled” the data before him, “falsifying medical histories of children and essentially concocting a ...
“Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant”
– May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!
I recently had a realization. During the cold war I would fire up the shortwave and listen to Radio Moscow to find out what they thought of the US. Propaganda is entertaining when one keeps in mind that it IS propaganda and not news at all.
The other day I found myself watching FOX with the same attitude.
