weblog

Kook-ball televangelist Pat Robertson calls for marijuana legalization - RS
A secular Jew who hates Christmas - Wired
U-6: The real unemployment rate in America
U-6 is currently 17% (as of April 2010) reports the WSJ. The nominal rate typically reported in the media is defined using the strictest and most limited measure of what "unemployed" means and so is always way lower. Who says the media never reports good new?
No such thing as a "voluntary & consensual" encounter with the police -  AJFYA blog

weblog

Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright - Daily Caller

More disinformation from the Journo-list cabal. This kinda scheming is why people don't trust the mainstream media any longer.

Overfished ecosystem held together by a single species - Ars Technica

The Bearded Goby.

Laughing at the lumpen: The Real Housewives of New Jersey - Businessweek

"This show makes the Sopranos look like English royalty." Satire.

weblog

Ex-University of Michigan president Lee Bollinger is a statist asshole - Wall Street Journal

Some in Ann Arbor were sad when Lee quit the U of M for Columbia. Me, I couldn't have been happier. And now the statist thug has written a muddle-headed op-ed advocating that the US gov start subsidizing newspapers, websites, and other media outlets. And as we all know by now, who pays the piper calls the tune. Isn't the mainstream corporate media enough of an outlet for the ruling classes Lee? Do we have to pay for them with tax money too? And who is gonna read or watch that dreck any way? Ever been to a government website?

Why does every middle-aged woman think HER holiday seducer is the real deal? - Daily Mail

A different take on sex tourism. (via Althouse)
How astro-turf organizations put together flash-mobs for their demonstrations - Megan McArdle
They hire unemployed temps for minimum wage and give them signs, t-shirts and scripted slogans to chant for the news cameras. Sheesh. What would Marx say? I know what Lenin would say. Heh.

NY passes law to destroy "stop & frisk" police info if the friskees aren't arrested - NY Times

Go outside for a smoke at this Michigan hospital and they may deem it a " a voluntary discharge" - WUOM radio

Allegiance Health Center (nee Foote Hospital) in Jackson, MI. It is sad to see those folks in hospital gowns and IV rigs standing outside the hospital on Michigan Avenue huffing on cancer sticks, but this kinda lacks compassion. But still...it kinda is a waste of resources to treat them if they get to continue on with their addictions too.

weblog

Put a few banksters in prison as an example to the rest? - iSteve (Steve Sailer)

"...why not imprison a few 8-figure per year bank officers? That will put a little fear in future banksters. That will make them cautious about exploiting loopholes they find in regulations."

Channeling his inner Stalin..(heh)

Evolving a better class of criminal mastermind - LA Times (Richard Serrano)

The real accomplishment of the War on Drugs.

Security theater comes to America - Fred On Everything (Fred Reed)

Debtor States - New Yorker (James Surowiecki)

On paying for content - boingboing (Clay Shirky)

We have to or else. Or so says Rupert Murdoch and his ilk. Clay Shirky calls bullshit on that notion.

weblog

Ex-wife of militia leader drops dime on her former husband. Feds do the rest. - Ann Arbor.com

Based on what the media has written here so far, there doesn't seem to be much of a case beyond a pissed-offed ex-wife and some angry words. We'll see what else develops, eh? Angry working class white men are never really in fashion amongst the media elites any how are they? The big-shots in D.C. need a boogey-man to trot out before the media right now too. And if your favorite tool is a hammer, then every problem that comes your way seems like a nail needing to be pounded.

weblog

A college education may not be worth as much as you think. - Wall Street Journal
A collection of media star's letters to the Unabomber requesting interviews- The Smoking Gun
Are radical environmentalists wackos, terrorists, or prophets? - AlterNet
Lancet retracts 1998 article linking vaccine to autism. - Toronto Globe & Mail
Chomsky as Hugo Chavez's Clown - Anarchist Library (El Libertario #51, 2009)
Whatever Noam Chomsky really is remains unclear, but what he isn't is an anarchist.
Unusual Asteroid Tail Implies Powerful Collision - Astronomy Picture of the Day (02-03-10)
Draw! The neuroscience behind Hollywood shoot-outs - New Scientist
Neurologically, survival-based reaction is faster than a deliberate think-aim-shoot cycle.