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Looking in at the ends - 16 April 2009
Apr. 17th, 2009 01:27 amIn anticipation of the remembrance of the Columbine shootings upcoming, here’s something nice to know - most of what you thought you knew about the shooting is wrong.
The Dead Pool got Sir Clement Freud, a regular guest on the radio programme Just a Minute, where one must speak at length about a single subject without hesitation, repetition, or...*ding*. Dang. I can never remember the third one.
Domestically, the only thing that quicknews put up today was more Fox news fellatio of the teabaggers, of which the GOP still think they can harness that misdirected rage to the end of getting people to vote Rpublican. Which, according to a clip shown on Countdown, could easily be possible, considering many of the teabaggers haven’t really researched what they’re protesting, since they were so easily led on. Or, like Ms. Malkin, as Mr. Taibbi points out, not even protesting the taxes part. The Slacktivist helps out to confirm this one, with pictures that equate the president with being a Nazi, a socialist, or both. Mr. Krugman notes that much of what is being protested at these parties coincides with Republican attack lines, so maybe the GOP can control the mob. (Incidentally, Newsweek profiles Mr. Krugman.)
More importantly, The Obama administration has released several key memorandums in the justification of torture done by the last administration, and at the same time is promising that those people responsible, or those who ordered such, will not be prosecuted.
What you’ll find on the news tonight? John Madden's retirement.
In the opinions, Mr. Blankley thinks Pakistan is rapidly becoming a CF, Mr. Jeffery thinks that be helping out a UN agency, we've been funding Iran's nuclear program, and Mr. Bay wants the current administration to make an enforce new laws for piracy.
Radley Balko calls for marijuana legalization, based on revenue, savings, and the damage we can do to crime syndicates.
Mr. Friedman uses Costa Rica as an example of a way of getting energy production and environmental concerns to work together.
Mr. Bozell says that the death of Christians in America, as reported by Newsweek, is greatly exaggerated, and instead takes swipes that Newsweek is the dying thing because its circulation is going down. (Due to its nakedly liberal bias, of course.) Mr. Williams suggests that Congress has exploited Americans' lack of knowledge about their Constitution to turn us from a Republic deeply suspicious of the government into a democracy that loves them.
Michael Brownstein reminds us that the new boss still has most of the underlying assumptions of the old boss.
And, the glamour of joining a flash mob, and the hangover that happens afterward when it turns out the anger may have been misplaced.
But last out, because nobody else even came close to properly insane on this one, George Will gets quiche for railing against the evils of denim (among other things).
In technology, the Kepler craft hunting for other planets has begun to beam home images, examining a theory that thinks of the human body as an ecosystem instead of a discrete being, ways of trying to stop pedestrians from dying if they're hit by a car, networking Netbook chips together to generate a low-power computing cloud, and a robot that can only communicate with eye movements as an attempt to learn about nonverbal behavior.
Last for tonight, vintage sketches of insects under the microscope, and the "man bites snake" headline. Well, that, and the HAL exoskeleton available now.
The Dead Pool got Sir Clement Freud, a regular guest on the radio programme Just a Minute, where one must speak at length about a single subject without hesitation, repetition, or...*ding*. Dang. I can never remember the third one.
Domestically, the only thing that quicknews put up today was more Fox news fellatio of the teabaggers, of which the GOP still think they can harness that misdirected rage to the end of getting people to vote Rpublican. Which, according to a clip shown on Countdown, could easily be possible, considering many of the teabaggers haven’t really researched what they’re protesting, since they were so easily led on. Or, like Ms. Malkin, as Mr. Taibbi points out, not even protesting the taxes part. The Slacktivist helps out to confirm this one, with pictures that equate the president with being a Nazi, a socialist, or both. Mr. Krugman notes that much of what is being protested at these parties coincides with Republican attack lines, so maybe the GOP can control the mob. (Incidentally, Newsweek profiles Mr. Krugman.)
More importantly, The Obama administration has released several key memorandums in the justification of torture done by the last administration, and at the same time is promising that those people responsible, or those who ordered such, will not be prosecuted.
What you’ll find on the news tonight? John Madden's retirement.
In the opinions, Mr. Blankley thinks Pakistan is rapidly becoming a CF, Mr. Jeffery thinks that be helping out a UN agency, we've been funding Iran's nuclear program, and Mr. Bay wants the current administration to make an enforce new laws for piracy.
Radley Balko calls for marijuana legalization, based on revenue, savings, and the damage we can do to crime syndicates.
Mr. Friedman uses Costa Rica as an example of a way of getting energy production and environmental concerns to work together.
Mr. Bozell says that the death of Christians in America, as reported by Newsweek, is greatly exaggerated, and instead takes swipes that Newsweek is the dying thing because its circulation is going down. (Due to its nakedly liberal bias, of course.) Mr. Williams suggests that Congress has exploited Americans' lack of knowledge about their Constitution to turn us from a Republic deeply suspicious of the government into a democracy that loves them.
Michael Brownstein reminds us that the new boss still has most of the underlying assumptions of the old boss.
And, the glamour of joining a flash mob, and the hangover that happens afterward when it turns out the anger may have been misplaced.
But last out, because nobody else even came close to properly insane on this one, George Will gets quiche for railing against the evils of denim (among other things).
In technology, the Kepler craft hunting for other planets has begun to beam home images, examining a theory that thinks of the human body as an ecosystem instead of a discrete being, ways of trying to stop pedestrians from dying if they're hit by a car, networking Netbook chips together to generate a low-power computing cloud, and a robot that can only communicate with eye movements as an attempt to learn about nonverbal behavior.
Last for tonight, vintage sketches of insects under the microscope, and the "man bites snake" headline. Well, that, and the HAL exoskeleton available now.
