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Bill Moyers is retiring and using his newly found freedom (that which comes from knowing you can’t be fired) to point out the very real problem with our news media, problems few seem to want to admit: they are hacks, they are lazy, or they are both. The bottom line may be that the […]

This essay talks about the true divide in America today: lunatic/non-lunatic divide. Now, moreso than ever before, we need to demand the truth and refuse to play along with the Soylent News the networks feed us and the Chicken Little screaming from the dishonest comedian/commentators* that distract us from the truth.
Michael […]

Badly tailored shirt? Dr. Robert M. Nelson doesn’t think so and says he is “willing to stake [his] scientific reputation to the statement that Bush was wearing something under his jacket during the debate”.

Nelson is neither conspiracy theorist nor midnight blogger. He’s a senior research scientist for NASA and for Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and […]

This recurring line in the G.W.B. stump speeches the last couple days sounds like a reason to vote for Kerry, not against him: “A president needs to get all the facts before jumping to politically motivated conclusions.”

I’m paraphrasing here, but Michael Badnarik just said “Republicans believe in economic freedom but not personal freedom. Democrats believe in personal freedom but not economic freedom. Libertarians believe you should have both personal and economic freedom.”
It is great to see a non-Nader, non-republicrat candidate on CNN but a 5-minute interview 5 days before […]

Not the best song in the world, not even the best political song in the world, not even the best anti-GWB song in the world.
But this is a damn good video.

From Electoral-Vote.com (a site that maps the current state of the electoral vote according to the latest polls):
Are the voters stupid? It is not considered politically correct to point out that an awful lot of voters don’t have a clue what they are talking about. A recent poll from Middle Tennessee State University sheds some […]

This is interesting. If I wasn’t so damn lazy, I’d try to verify his numbers.
Average IQ by state and Who they voted for in 2000
UPDATE: According to various sources, the numbers IQ scores listed appear to be fake.

The Big Ticket: jon stewart rips crossfire a new one
The host of the emmy-winning Daily Show got awfully confrontational with Crossfire hosts Paul Begala & Tucker Carlson, referring to them as “partisan hacks” and calling them to task for neglecting their duties as journalists
Jon Stewart is my hero.