The freelance McCarthys and Torquemadas of the Rightie blogosphere are literally in a feeding frenzy. From the roiling of the waters, you’d think someone was dumping chum into a tank of piranhas that hadn’t eaten in a week. Except that I have far too much repect for piranhas to humiliate them with a comparison to the Rightie blogs, led by Michael Goldfarb (of Murdoch’s Weekly Standard) and Michelle Malkin (a regular and paid contributor on Murdoch’s FAUX Nooz). Piranhas...
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Horror-canes
Louisiana has long been hit by hurricanes like our fellow gulf coast states. A look at the past might give some insight into how many we have dealt with, and why we still live and survive, when even the federal government wishes for us to just go away. As a long time survivor of many of these storms, I know what it is to rebuild and refuse to just give up. You just can’t make us go away. WE...
Part ii: Kilgore Trout Fishing In America
Yesterday, we talked about the mess that American letters is in: thousands of journalists losing jobs, etc. I didn’t talk much about the loss of the American publishing industry to foreign overseers and mega-publishers, and to mega-media companies, in whose organizational chart the publishing arm became a mere appendage, anemic and carrying little status. In the modern media economy, a HarperCollins, say, becomes a bargain movie property search mechanism for the much larger overhead of Fox Studios, and the...
The Write Stuff (part i)
I am officially a writer. Two things prove this. The first is that I have, on my refrigerator, a PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT ORDER FORM from Writer’s Digest Professional Services Division. The second is that I don’t subscribe. Because Writer’s Digest is a wannabe magazine. They have to be. Sphere: Related Content
Brown Stuff, Rotating Blades
The Associated Press reports this breaking story: Sunni Arab bloc quits Iraqi government By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Wed Aug 1, 7:56 AM ET BAGHDAD – Iraq’s largest Sunni Arab political bloc announced its withdrawal from the government Wednesday, undermining Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s efforts to seek reconciliation among the country’s rival factions. Violence continued unabated, with 50 people killed and 60 wounded when a suicide attacker exploded a fuel truck near a gas station in...
Were We Quoted in the Wall Street Journal?
Were we quoted in the Wall Street Journal? From yesterday’s post, “BREAKING: CNBC Reports Dow Jones Sale“: UPDATE 1:22 PM PDT: The Wall Street Journal is now reporting it, as is The New York Times. (They’re the Number Two and Number Three largest newspapers in America, respectively, albeit not necessarily respectfully). The Numero Uno Paper, USA TODAY has yet to be heard from. This may well be remembered as a very dark day in American journalism. And Here’s the...
The Most Pathetic Political Commentary EVER
Sometimes, just as you realize that some of the most rabid, misanthropic lunatic righties would like nothing better than to see you and anyone like you dead, they pull off a stunt that reminds us all of what astonishingly pathetic losers they actually are, and why they couldn’t actually hold a job in the Real World, unless backed up by cranky zillionaires even more screwed up in the head than they are. I’m speaking, of course, of the Kewpie...
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