In the land of no ears, Vincent van Gogh is king.
Wingnuts
The Wrong Dog and Pony Show
The soundtrack emphasizes the sizzle sound. And they even cop to it. "And what gets your juices flowing." Ivan Pavlov must be chuckling. Now, they ring the bell, and WE drool.
The War on Intellectuals Ramps Up
No: the war on intelligence and intellectualism is fully underway. And intelligent progressives need to remember this one ...
Home, Home on Derange
OK. When we crunch all the data, the Rightie/Romney/R-Money tactic of choice for the fall election becomes clear....
Spiking the Football
But Oliver North was run for the Senate from Virginia (he lost). Thence to radio, and now to the Chautauqua circuit and a weekly show on Faux Nooz. Meanwhile, G. Gordon Liddy, Nixon's Ollie North, sells you gold during the commercial breaks.
The Witching Hour
The Righties have succeeded in making their meme more important than the anniversary whose celebration disgusts them so. Thus (bizarrely using -- not for the first time this week -- a UK newspaper and Writer/Blogger Toby Harndon to push their poisonous "American" blog linkages)
Welcome To The New Underground Press
The old establishment "megamedia" still define the narrative -- of course, for years, lazy talk show hosts and teevee news took their cues from the New York Times, nationally, and when we HAD local radio talk shows (before the Limbaugh putsch), they invariably took their cues from the local newspaper.
The Switch Family Robinson
Down in Cave Junction, Oregon, a brave family of castaways makes do without any understanding of the society of the 20th and 21st centuries. Oddly straddling the worlds of legitimate science and the world of crank science; "education reform" and "edumacashun," they eke out a meager existence only backed by the shadowy zillionaires of the Club for Growth and Long Island political computer crank Robert Mercer. And they're running for Congress. Again.
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