Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
The Washington Monthly: The MSM is the viciousness of junior high cliques amplified and concentrated a thousandfold but operating by the same rules. They dislike anyone who dares to be brighter, better informed, or even more attractive. It’s pack behavior. Dean Swift indentified this tendency long ago in ‘Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting”: […]
MoreMike M.: YY. Why did you switch from choo-choos? I will not be railroaded into a response.
MoreForeign Policy: The Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006: United States Funds the Taliban The Taliban’s resurgence brought the ongoing war in Afghanistan back onto the front pages in 2006. From record opium production to suicide bombings, the outlook has only grown dimmer in the past 12 months. What you probably didn’t hear is […]
MoreCrooks and Liars » 2006 » December » 15 Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday the world faces “a new type of fascism’’ and likened critics of the Bush administration’s war strategy to those who tried to appease the Nazis in the 1930s. In unusually explicit terms, Rumsfeld portrayed the administration’s critics as suffering […]
MorePoynter Online – Romenesko: LAT started describing Iraq situation as “civil war” last month Los Angeles Times NBC is the first television network to officially adopt the term “civil war,” while the Los Angeles Times was the first major news outlet to formally adopt the description when it began to refer to the hostilities as […]
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