The 'toon below from Ted Rall is factually accurate. It's a fact that the much-reviled mainstream media reported on the NSA spying on Americans long before Edward Snowden spoke up. (To give an example, back in 2012 James Bamford in Wired reported that "The NSA…has the ability to eavesdrop on phone calls directly and in realContinue reading “American public exceptionally dumb: Ted Rall”
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Dumb headline of the year: Sugar bombs edition
Washington Post, you're better than this: Some Children's Cereals Packed with Sugar, Study Finds Really? Didn't Calvin tells us this, what, twenty-five years ago? I know, it's a study by the Environmental Working Group, but that's no excuse for the lack of imagination. Here's Grist's: Cereal Offenders Ah. That's better.
Global Reality vs. George Will
Sunday in the Washington Post, in the news: The pace of global warming is likely to be much faster than recent predictions, because industrial greenhouse gas emissions have increased more quickly than expected and higher temperatures are triggering self-reinforcing feedback mechanisms in global ecosystems, scientists said Saturday. "We are basically looking now at a futureContinue reading “Global Reality vs. George Will”
The New Way to Lie in Public: The FDA Likes It!
On the front page of The Los Angeles Times this morning is a sharp story on the the Federal Drug Administration, and its virtually non-existent oversight of a peanut processing plant in Georgia. Because the plant was "filthy" and because the government farmed out oversight to a state agency that looked the other way, hundredsContinue reading “The New Way to Lie in Public: The FDA Likes It!”
Kit Stolz 