Good heavens, Random Observations seems to have become a "media bias" blog lately. I swear, it's not because I'm trying....
Frontline apparently pulls a few punches in order to make the New Testament look bad. Sadly, though, they're below the belt, and they're refuting their own words, not those in the bible.
Yet another fake story in the press (Bush Buries Secret Global Warming Report) triggers my ire, and I rant intemperately about the state of things as they are. Of course, I'm not shocked: This is precisely what my worldview predicts. Still, it's appalling to watch.
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really in this proposition: that Nature is our mother....
Matt Groening admits the satirical is political, and gives us a bit of insight into how his political views color
The Simpsons.
New York Second Circuit Federal Court Judge Sifton has decided that the US Constitution compels us to oppose Christianity and favor other religions. What version of the Constitution is he reading?
Worried about facing a hostile press corps, armed with nothing more than a stack of Pentagon briefings? You might want...
Is Robbins' controversial play "Embedded" an even-handed, touching portrayl of the Iraqi war, or is it, as critics charge, a vicious pack of lies?
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Slashdot: IBM was well-aware that its click-of-death 75GXP hard drives had a failure rate of as much as 10 times...
Twinkle, twinkle little star,DeBeers craves you from afar... BBC News: The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000...
ABC News tells us what we already know, and threatens the Bush administration with a shocking gloves-off display of threats to bias his coverage.
Previously, I've questioned whether Christianity mandates socialism. Today we examine an essay which implies a sincere Christian can't possibly fail to support state redistribution of funds and bans on global trade.
Entertainment Weekly says Mel Gibson is attacking the media, but (apparently) omits any mention of recent media attacks on Mel. Fox News's entertainment correspondant Lisa Bernhart says this is justified, apparently, because Mel Gibson has faith.
Unlike Arundhati Roy, I'm not absolutely convinced that the world would certainly have been a much better place without Los Alamos; nor do I feel the sins of the fathers should be visited upon the sons. But sometimes it's useful to consider her arguments in light of her own apparent standards.
Is raising taxes fiscally responsible when we are in a recession? Can you really cut taxes in order to get out of a deficit? The answers may suprise you.
Guess who's accusing the President of saying negative things about his political opponent? Wow, that's an amazingly bold move, considering the recent behavior of the accusers.
P.J. O'Rourke: You say we (reporters) are distracting from the business of government. Well I hope so. Distracting a politician...
I'm watching a press conference with a white house official. They've released the payroll records which demonstrate George W. Bush...
The whole thing started innocently enough. "Dr. Dot" was just trying to get her jacket and leave. Little did she know she'd end up with a fat lip and a false story in a German newspaper...
Are diamonds made from coal? Wouldn't that be further evidence that oil isn't made from diosaurs or decaying plant materials?
What can we learn from M*A*S*H, the National Prayer Breakfast, Gregg Easterbrook, and Ronald Reagan's 1976 campaign about judging a book by its cover?
Guns and knives in school. Kids having sex in the bathroom. Disrespecting the teacher and failing to show up for...
A quick look at one thing John Kerry is going to do to make health care in America more affordable. Sadly, it seems to violate common sense.
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has some reasonable complaints regarding WMD. For one, that Perle has long complained that...
Here's a high school with some interesting priorities: The Amherst-Pelham Regional School Committee banned "West Side Story" because its members...
Sorry: I normally try to keep Random Observations more of a news-channel-like format. But lately, I'm going to be putting...
Rambling about sushi, politics, leftist hatred, and blogging...