BY TOM TOMORROW
David Corn on Jerry Falwell: Falwell is free to be foolish, and CNN is free to exploit his foolishness to achieve that much-sought-after image of fair-and-balanced. But Falwell went further. He claimed, “global warming is a myth.” Sider tried to rebut him, saying, “Our best scientists tell us that, in fact, global warming…” But Falwell …
This week’s cartoon refers to the military discharge of six “highly trained” Arabic linguists. A couple of readers have pointed out that these guys were still at the Defense Language Institute when they were discharged, so “highly trained” may have been overstating the case. It’s hard to tell from this story the extent of their …
If you enjoyed that surreal Kikkoman cartoon that I linked to last week, then here’s a treasure trove for you (thanks for the tip to Sean Treacy). And here’s a translation of the first cartoon, from a friend of reader Dallas Crum: It came from the star of an soybean. He is the messenger of …
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Note: if you’ve already read this one, please be sure to scroll down to the update. From Elton Beard (via Patrick Nielsen Hayden): The Ministry of Truth. The Defense Department Information Awareness Office has been raising some eyebrows lately over its plan to collect and analyze a great deal of information about the formerly private …
When I threw my hat into the ring a year ago, the blogs were mostly dominated by a conservative/libertarian axis. These days, the ideological spectrum seems a whole lot more balanced (even if the journalists who keep writing those “gee whiz check out this blogging thing” articles haven’t caught up to the fact yet). And …