Archive for May, 2008
The death of news credibility
Avi Muchnick writes an interesting article on the decline of news credibility as many news agencies make the transition from print to web.
Ratings are driven by attracting as large an audience as possible… and most people care more about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s married life than how many people vanished from a Darfur town this week (hint: all [...]
All the ingredients for Country Music
In the last three weeks:
My car has failed. Looks like a cracked head. Will cost over a grand to fix.
My work has failed. They’re out of money and fired co-workers, and I’ll probably be out of a job soon.
I cut my hand on my car’s engine while trying to fix it.
Today, I fell down my stairs. I [...]
A better way to say it
My last post was a dig at Bush giving up golf because of his Iraq war.
However, I think Keith Olbermann says it all better than I ever will. Watch the video on that page for his full rant. Covers a lot of the bases.
George Bush is sensitive
George Bush quit golf.
“I don’t want some mum whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them.“
Yeah, you’re hell sensitive, George.
Decline of Christianity imminent, more or less.
The pope has an astronomer? Didn’t the catholics execute people for that a few centuries back? (perhaps in a few centuries we’ll have Vatican hookers too)
The search for extraterrestrial life does not contradict belief in God, the pope’s chief astronomer said on Tuesday, adding that some aliens might even be innocent of the original sin.
So, [...]
