International Law

?The Media?s Obama/Wright fixation?

Posted on March 23, 2008
Glennzilla with more on this fixation. Update: David thinks CNN is finally getting it. Doubt it.

What Facebook Needs to do to Not be Boring

Posted on March 23, 2008
Forget “don’t be evil” - what about ‘don’t be boring’? Most of the people I know who used to spend time on Facebook don’t bother anymore. Why not? I bet it’s the same reason I don’t: Facebook is boring...

?Gap in Life Expectancy Widens for the Nation?

Posted on March 23, 2008
We know what the rich inherit. Still trying though, on this Easter Sunday, to remember what exactly what it was the meek were supposed to inherit.

It was the best of papers, it was the worst of papers

Posted on March 23, 2008
I still shake my head at how staggeringly dumb - dumb, dumb, dumb - it is for the Globe to put some of its content behind a paywall, but this one takes the cake: an article that one would generally only want when the need arose, but when it arose, would want to be found [...

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?Pope?s Easter call for peace?

Posted on March 23, 2008
Perhaps it’s just me, but given that so much war is religious, celebrating the conversion of people to your faith seems more of a call for war than a call for peace (wasn’t it Ann Coulter who last got excited about converting Muslims to Christianity?)...

But enough about *you*

Posted on March 23, 2008
US Deaths in Iraq Approach 4,000. That’s a heart-breaking number. But it pales in comparison next to the number of Iraqi dead.

Test Post

Posted on March 22, 2008
Test post

?They want a hagiography?

Posted on March 22, 2008
Dan Mitchell in the NYT on the hagiography of Apple that fanbois expect from the media. Exactly right.

?A use of language as a disguised insult?

Posted on March 22, 2008
This is perhaps the best description of the Clinton pathology that I’ve seen - an almost reflexive reaction to lie, without having the personal courage to take responsibility for the lie. All of which must make Republicans very happy - they’re already portraying this as more warfare between the campaigns, and laughing all the way [...

HRC Under Fire

Posted on March 22, 2008
Though perhaps not as expected.

?China Claims Wide Support for Tibetan Crackdown?, Satan sez people like evil ?just fine?

Posted on March 21, 2008
Yes, there’s nothing folks like more than fresh bodies in the street. It’s like springtime in Tiananmen.

?Facebook Toast? Hot Today, Dead Tomorrow?Like AOL??

Posted on March 21, 2008
I don’t know anyone over 25 who still thinks Facebook is interesting. And the people I know who’ve tossed it did so months ago. The main reason is Twitter, but there are others, chief among them - it’s *boring*.

?Giant Marine Life Found in Antarctica?

Posted on March 21, 2008
No, that’s giant marine **death**. Giant marine life was what it was **before** you dragged it out and killed it.

?Torstar: An Immoral Double Standard?

Posted on March 20, 2008
Warren is on fire these days.

I looked into the face of evil, and I was afraid, and I turned away

Posted on March 20, 2008
40 years later, On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone interviews Seymour Hersh about his story on the My Lai massacre, and about Abu Ghraib. It’s a chilling account that turned my blood cold, but it’s an important story, especially today...

Blogs are peer review for mainstream media

Posted on March 19, 2008
Not only, of course, but certainly very much. Someone had to do it.

?Advertising Is Content; Content Is Advertising?

Posted on March 19, 2008
Glad to see Mike pick up this AdAge piece. I’ve been making the same point since basically forever - and it’s been excruciatingly obvious for ages that the issue will become more pronounced, not less. Media is now much more dynamic - so users will adapt and expect it to adapt on a [...

?The geniuses of finance?

Posted on March 18, 2008
Ouch. I find myself wondering how much in bonuses was paid out when the banks were congratulating themselves on setting up this house of cards. Bear Stearns shareholders and employees must be wondering too.

Ben?s Fire Sale

Posted on March 18, 2008
Come on down - they’re practically *giving* ‘em away!!

Obama?s ?Test?

Posted on March 18, 2008
The only reason today is a test for Obama is because white America still believes in fairy tales - the fairy tale of its own tolerance. (We are the same here in Canada - just without the Kabuki theatricality; the ritual sacrifice of anyone who dares to speak out about this evil)...

Photo Finish

Posted on March 18, 2008
Isn’t it nifty how a carefully-chosen photo can allow you to lie to people about the meaning of your story? It’s a great way to trick people into thinking your story means something it doesn’t!! You get to misinform people, plus you avoid taking responsibility for your good works...

Fox News: True Colours

Posted on March 18, 2008
Rachel has a stunning piece on Fox and its apparent fetish for Hitler’s resume.

?Quality of cancer testing a ?nightmare??

Posted on March 18, 2008
Words to chill you to the bone: test results were botched for hundreds of breast cancer patients. Meanwhile, medical professionals are busy pondering how not to say sorry.

Now *that?s* open government

Posted on March 18, 2008
Newly Inaugurated New York Governor Admits Both He And His Wife Had Affairs

?Beijing air quality poses risks?

Posted on March 17, 2008
Particularly to Tibetan dissidents, I would think.

?Wiretapping?s true danger?

Posted on March 17, 2008
No, I can’t imagine why civil libertarians in the US are so concerned about surveillance by their government. I really just can’t imagine why: The original FISA law was passed in 1978 after a thorough congressional investigation headed by Sen...

?Pastor Defends His Predecessor at Obama?s Chicago Church?

Posted on March 17, 2008
Is there going to be a rebound on the coverage of Pastor Jeremiah Wright when America collects its collective wits? I hope so. So far, much of the coverage has been focussed on pretending that America does not still have problems with racism that are core to its identity, and has had a [...

?Pentagon Report on Saddam?s Iraq Censored??

Posted on March 13, 2008
The Pentagon is now trying to hide a report that exposes the lie that fuelled a war and the tens of thousands of deaths that have followed it.

?When I mention my own service, people here shake their heads in disbelief?

Posted on March 13, 2008
We are digital peasants.

Indoctrination Nation

Posted on March 12, 2008
Teach your children well: Still, I was floored when Banff resident Scott Rowed, a member of the Centre for Inquiry, told me his daughter graduated from Grade 12 in Alberta without ever hearing the word “evolution.” “The underpinnings of our life sciences courses, our curriculum, are all based on the assumptions of evolution,” said the Alberta Department [...

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