Clown Town
Here's a song parody about the presidential candidates from David Pogue of Yahoo Tech... More info here.
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Robert Reich, a progressive who served as Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, spent three weeks in "red" America while on a tour to promote his latest book, "Saving Capitalism: For The Many, Not The Few." While there, he spoke to a lot of conservative Republicans...
The Most Basic Rule Of Journalism
The most fundamental questions of journalism are Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How. With those questions, you can get into the specifics of anything that has occurred. Without them, there can be no details and, worse, no accountability. Unfortunately, too many...
Ben Carson Wikipedia
I don't want to say Ben Carson has been embellishing stories from his life, but he's just been endorsed by Brian Williams. Meanwhile, the Twitterverse is having fun creating facts for #BenCarsonWikipedia: Some respected scientists believe that aliens built Mount...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
From my friend Will Durst, a column entitled, "Who Would Want This Job?" It’s like a train wreck. Fascinating, repellant, and loud: all at the same time. Talking about the American presidential sweepstakes. And, as ratings for the last few debates seem to indicate,...
Presidential Math
With Joe Biden officially out of the race, Lincoln Chaffee's chances of becoming president just tripled, because 3 x 0 = 0.
Hype, Nonsense, and Some People
After seeing the new "Star Wars" trailer during Monday Night Football, so many people went online to buy tickets to the movie that they crashed the Fandango website. For a film that won't open until December 18th -- two months from now -- this horde had to get their...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
In an interview with Salon, Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about the dangers of unenlightened policies that aren't based on scientific facts: For example, we live in a time now where many on the conservative right continue to be in denial of anthropogenic climate change....