Here’s Your Monday News, Early

Is this the worst scientific scandal of our generation? Are you kidding me? After eight years of “creationist” science emanating from George the Dumber’s maladministration? You gotta be kidding me, right? Please, tell me you’re kidding me.

Warmergate? No: It’s WhiteWarmer

Just like the ACORN “scandal” there is more smoke than fire, but the issue isn’t whether there is anything BEHIND the allegations. It is promoting it to a MAJOR NEWS STORY — all the while claiming that it’s that awful “biased liberal media” who is actively SITTING ON YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW, Mister and Missus MainStreet U.S.A!

Happy Black Friday

As we all know, modern advertising, modern commerce, modern politics and modern PR all rely almost exclusively on the reptile brain, with higher thought processes all but insignificant or to be ignored….

Thanksgiving Day Nostalgia

When Santa Claus was real and Newt Gingrich was a mythological creature.

A Turkey Named ‘Courage’

OK, the rewrite is snarky and inappropriate, of course, but we’ve already established that Faux Nooz™ has a standing philosophy based on two pillars of Faith:

1. Everything President Obama does is wrong and/or evil … and
2. No blow is too low.

So, why the rewrite?

Rupert’s Racist Rag Regurgitates Rotten Righting

it’s sad and sick to see this very (for its time) brave Stanley Kramer film turned into a cheap racial shot by the Klansmen and Klanswomen who boldly weave the bedtime story that is Faux Nooz. And, worse, that nobody’s going to call them on it, it would appear.

Truth v. Narrative

And, face it, a significant number of people will always answer “what you tell me” to the question, when catching spouse in flagrante delicto, “What are you going to believe, your lying eyes or what I tell you?”

November 22: We are now officially a house divided

46 years ago today, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was gunned down in cold blood in Dealey Plaza, in Dallas, Texas. This year begins the construction of the George W. Bush Presidential Coloring Bookatorium™ in Dallas. I wonder if anyone at SMU noticed the irony?

Creationism v. Journalism – A True Story from Real Life™

Keen observation is the hallmark of a good journalist. What I just described is the hallmark of a good creationist. And, for the Bible-besotted (or, to be fair, Qu’ran, Book of Mormon, Urantia, Upanishads, Sutras, and, for you Scientologists, two tin cans and a Wheatstone bridge), I will note that there is a profound difference between the two approaches.

Nebraska Nazi Addendum

Nazi? You remember that I spoke of the wingnut move into “Brown Shirt” territory, and infamously suggested carnal knowledge of Godwin’s Law? Well, from our friends at the ADL* comes this, from Monday …

Teabaggers in Portland to protest Gore

But, this is going even further. After the thuggish events at town halls this summer, this is evolving into ever more coordinated, more angry attempts to derail public debate and democratic discussion.