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Bushco spins the Times

Thursday, July 5, 2007

I am going to climb out on a limb and say that the legal “debate” about the Bush commutation will die down more quickly than the public debate. Yesterday the Times published an article (Bush Rationale on Libby Stirs Legal Debate) that contained quotes from individuals who apparently could pretend with a straight face that […]

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The Day gets it, eight months too late

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

In an Editorial today, the New London Day takes Joe Lieberman to task for his support of the Iraq War. It has not yet clued itself in to the fact that Joe now has bigger fish to fry; having destroyed Iraq for no reason, he is now gunning for Iran, spreading disinformation as he goes. […]

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Connections

Monday, June 25, 2007

Two articles from Thinkprogress came across in my newsreader today, one after the other: In the first we learn that CNN has dumped an interview with Michael Moore in order to broadcast an interview with Paris Hilton. In the second, we learn that 41% of the people in this country still believe that Saddam Hussein […]

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Glued to the tube

Saturday, June 23, 2007

One of my pet peeves is restaurants that have television sets visible in the dining area. I have to take care to position myself so I can’t see the tube. I don’t want to watch, yet I continually find myself drawn to watch as if by magnetic force. I don’t watch TV at home, so […]

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Krugman on authenticty

Monday, June 11, 2007

Great column by Paul Krugman today. I can’t help but think that his colleague, the ever shallow Maureen Dowd, is one of his unnamed targets: Rich liberals who claim they’ll help America’s less fortunate are phonies. Let me give you one example — a Democrat who said he’d work on behalf of workers and the […]

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Curious

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

During my nightly newsreader lightning round I came across this post at Pharyngula, which linked to this post at a blog called Making Light. The ultimate subject is a blog, or former blog, called Embryoyo, only the name of which appears to have been original. The blog is no longer available for viewing, or wasn’t […]

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Euphemistically speaking

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

This ones a bit like shooting fish in a barrel, so I won’t belabor it. This morning’s Times relates that some people who other people listen to (as opposed to us unwashed) believe torture isn’t a good idea, not because it’s morally wrong (that’s too quaint an objection) but because it doesn’t work. You’ll find […]

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A group of one

Monday, May 28, 2007

A couple of days ago I vented a bit about the fact that the New London Day gave equal coverage to a large anti-war and a small pro-war demonstration. More of the same in the Times today, though perhaps just through sloppy editing. On the front page of the Times, there’s a picture of a […]

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Unfair and balanced

Thursday, May 24, 2007

As just about everyone knows, the man who exercises the powers of the presidency was in New London yesterday, attempting to inject another shot of fear into the body politic. There were a lot of demonstrators on hand, and this morning my wife and I were treated to what passes for editorial “fairness and balance” […]

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Russert shows respect

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Thursday I wrote about my fear that I could not reliably recognize irony. Today I learn that I can’t recognize satire, or, even worse, that I confuse sincerity for satire. When I read this post at Hullabaloo I figured that the letter allegedly written by Tim Russert must be satire. Could anyone seriously write a […]

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