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Time Traveling Journalism, Two Articles from 2014: Trickle Down Eatonomics & NRA Press Release
Time travel news channeling? Yes. Don’t smirk, I did it. Here’s the inarguable proof: February 10, 2014: TRICKLE DOWN FEEDING A 2014 Wall Street Journal excerpt, in consequence of Mitt Romney’s election and the 2012 election triumph of Tea Partiers in Congress: “The White House is pleased to announce President…
Batman and the painful irony of the Colorado movie theater shooting
The painful irony… All those people, including children, were shot dead by an armed lunatic at a Dark Knight screening. Many others were maimed and some more may die. It’s a cruel tragedy—and everyone’s heart goes out to the families of victims. President Obama immediately appeared in public, and spoke feelingly,…
What good is Twitter? How a telltale tic is twitching us into twits
It’s now thought that the reason CNN and Fox mistakenly reported, at first, that the ACA mandate had been struck down by the Supreme Court… was simply because some chucklehead pseudo-reporter in the room TWEETED the wrong information. (CNN et al may deny this—I don’t believe them, as the indications…
Me and you and Ray Bradbury
In recent years, following his stroke, Ray Bradbury continued to write stories, which appeared in national publications, by talking to his daughter over the phone. He’d call her up, long distance, and, in essence, talk the story to her; she would transcribe it. He’d go over the result with her…
Presidential culture is more powerful than presidential promises
“There is no significant difference between Republicans and Democrats, so the choice is meaningless.” This claim is trumpeted about by many political lefties, and by those crypto-righties, Libertarians. Sometimes the difference between the GOP and Dems is quite stark – recently Republicans in the House voted to take money from…
Huge Destructive Bombast
Trailers shown before my weekend viewing of The Avengers included a preview for other blockbusters; the trailers offered hot samples, like the cinematic variant of something you get in a plastic cup at the Trader Joe’s sample counter–samples of huge, destructive bombast. Producers apparently have no confidence that we’ll be…
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