I’ve been busy, so I haven’t written in a while. I thought that I would switch things up a bit and write a few posts on economics.
I have some issues with how economics are handled by our society, particularly on the separation that exists between academic economic researchers, intelligent, resioned people who do good research [...]
Be Wary of Your Sources
Liberal Media?
Well… I was trolling around the internet when I came to the conclusion that the supposedly liberal media was routinely, seemingly willfully, giving John McCain a pass on his flip flops while eagerly attacking Barack Obama for his (even though a lot of them aren’t actually flip flops). So, given their tacit support [...]
Jesse Helms: Another Instance of Conservatives’ Selective Memory…
Well… Jesse Helms died earlier today… much earlier, as it was at a quarter after 1 this morning. I first heard about it on, my favorite Right-Wing Retardation blog, Blogs for Victory (which I refuse to link). I’ll admit that I didn’t know too much about Mr. Helms before today, but [...]
Splintering of the Base?
Reuters has an interesting piece up about young, white evangelicals–not my favorite group, but I read on. Apparently, these voters are less two-dimensional than their elders, looking beyond the issues of Abortion and Gay Marriage and looking towards issues like the War in Iraq, Global Warming and Environmental Issues, and Social Justice. These [...]
More Idiocy from Pat Buchanan…
At Townhall.com (to which I am loathe to link), Pat Buchanan wrote an idiotic piece defending his equally idiotic (based on his summary of his arguments in the article) book about World War II and the Holocaust. Essentially, he argues that Hitler wasn’t going to do that Holocaust or really do that much of a [...]
Fundie Boycotts and The Marketplace of Ideas
This past weekend, The Golden Compass came out in theaters. For those of you who don’t know, here’s the link to its wikipedia article. I was searching through Facebook groups with the movie’s title in their name, and the first dozen or so were called things like “Boycott the Atheist Golden Compass” [...]
Oh Please, Mr. TV… Tell Me What to Think
A few posts ago, I talked about the differences between Fox News’ and CNN’s prime time lineups, namely that Fox’s was full of opinion shows and CNN’s was full of investigative news magazines. I was thinking that this was just a difference in what liberals and conservatives tend to want to watch, but recently, a [...]
Intellectual Hypocrisy (An AHOW Production)
Okay, so the Asshat of the Week thing is turning out not to be a weekly affair, but hey… who cares, right?
Anyway, when I was driving home from work, I was undertaking a bit of Intellectual Masochism… Yes, I was listening to Sean Hannity. He was going on about Democratic Congressmen stripping [...]
My Main Problem With the Media
This isn’t going to be another “THE MEDIA IS LIBERAL!!!” or “THE MEDIA IS CONSERVATIVE!!!” diatribe, nor is it going to be an admonishment of corporate ownership of the media… No, I have a very specific beef with how the media, specifically the cable news networks, reports stories relating to the administration of justice.
When [...]
The Conservative Answer to Liberal Media Bias…
… is Conservative Opinion shows…
I came to this realization somewhat recently, as I was listening to some of the ongoing criticism of the Democrats’ efforts to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, which I, for the record, oppose. The likes of Michael Savage and Sean Hannity spoke out on behalf of talk radio and their [...]
