Last night on The Ed Show on MSNBC, guest Heidi Harris, a Las Vegas-based hate radio star, explained it all for me. You see, people like Dr. Laura can run around shouting “nigger” eleven times on the air, an act of which Heidi primly disapproves, because they’re syndicated, national, and make “millions of dollars.” It [...]
Ruth Marcus isn’t the stupidest person at the Washington Post, nor is she the most craven. But as Jon Stewart memorably said, that’s like being the thinnest kid at fat camp. Although she’s regularly identified as a “liberal,” she nonetheless frequently types such insulting Fox News horseshit such as her column today about how Robert [...]
Over at Fox, they don’t really look for intellectual gals, but it is important that they have a nice set of ideas. If you’re hiring “talent” to bully, lie, and make asses of themselves, it helps ratings if they look like Barbie in so doing, which partially explains the existence of Megyn Kelly and others. [...]
Since nearly all of what passes for Republican “ideas” are invariably sold with laughably improbable predictions of the dire consequences of not adopting them, rather than their relative merit, I seldom bother to pay much attention to them anymore. I suppose it’s psychologically satisfying, on some level, to know that if a sundry Kristol, Cheney, [...]
Last night I attended a sneak preview of director Amir Bar-Lev’s The Tillman Story, a gripping and infuriating documentary that explores the military’s scandalous hyping of Pat Tillman’s death by friendly fire in Afghanistan. Despite the reluctance of the Tillman family to further exploit Pat’s death, they gave unprecedented access to Bar-Lev and provided a [...]
I’m going to Napa for a long weekend today, but I was lucky enough to get one last look at my favorite bike this morning. The house below it is a 10-year project of mine I wrote about in a past blog, “Urban Oasis,” and now it has an accepted offer on it, but the [...]
Jonah Goldberg, a man whose very existence signals the final collapse of the media, particularly the Los Angeles Times, dropped this pantload last week, and I’m still trying to figure out whether or not it was diabolically clever satire: “The high standards and wise judgments of people like Walter Cronkite once acted as a national [...]