There are 235 Jon Stewarts in the United States. But there’s only one who is the most trusted man in America.

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My Friend Mr. Marcotte sent me an article this morning via email. The email subject line read, “Oh So Worthy of Posting.” Naturally, I was left with no choice but to interrupt my Bar Review studies — it’s his fault, hon! — and then follow the link, read the article and write this one. To […]

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Why should you be frightened? Because that’s what “they” want. It’s hard to know these days whether “they” in the last sentence is the Bush Administration, which repeatedly uses the news of horrible terrible things that might just possibly happen somewhere in the universe, maybe, if everyone isn’t properly behaving. And properly behaving, of course, […]

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If you’ve never seen the USA Network series about the 4400 people who were supposedly abducted by people from the future, modified and then returned to the “present” time, you won’t get the title of this blog entry. In that show, 4400 people, over decades of time, disappeared from the face of the Earth. There […]

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Erik Peterson sent me something which stunned him — and me. It’s a video of a newsman with backbone. As Erik put it, “Ted Koppel getting his spine back…and it’s great.” That’s an understatement. Perhaps one of the more interesting parts comes about three-quarters of the way through, when the Director of the Federal Emergency […]

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Perhaps I’m too cynical. Perhaps. But I’m not buying the idea that the Newsweek story about the Quran and the Toilet was false. It seems much more likely to me that Newsweek got it right and the Bush Administration is scrambling to achieve two goals: 1) Find some way to reduce Muslim anger and 2) […]

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Now I know the real reason so many “news” stories are unattributed these days. The White House says Newsweek magazine took a “good first step” by retracting its story that U.S. investigators found evidence interrogators at Guantanamo Bay desecrated the Quran, but it wants the magazine to do more to repair damage caused by the […]

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Over the last few years, since a secret government was installed in America, I’ve often lamented the fact that we no longer get real news. Instead, we get Fox, presumably so-named because the right-wing Republican hicks who started and run it mis-pronounced “Faux” when they were working with their attorneys to file the incorporation papers. […]

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I was going to call this just “The End of Integrity,” because lying has truly become a national epidemic. In fact, the easiest way these days to tell an American is lying is to check to see if his or her lips are moving. In the past, it was safe to assume someone was truthful […]

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