Sanity Has Left The Building

It’s actu­ally pretty amaz­ing how crazy TV has got­ten since I stopped watch­ing it. Obviously, I can’t know for cer­tain how crazy it is, since I don’t own one, but I read blog­gers talk about ABC putting on shows about “how soon is the apoc­a­lypse,” and sup­pos­edly some CNN anchor was recy­cling bull­shit from WorldNetDaily …

Allen vs. Webb

So I’m lis­ten­ing to an older clip from CNN, and I have to say this. To ask George Allen whether he is Jewish or not is a scum­bag ques­tion. The “he’s just a celebrity” excuse is lam­en­ta­bly lame, and I for one got the impres­sion that Arianna Huffington would just as soon the per­son who …

Suckered

Yep, I was fooled. No homo­erotic missile-on-missile action. No death from above. The para­noid, cyn­i­cal, haven’t-slept-in-a-week side of me thinks the sto­ries were planted as part of a last-ditch effort to frighten the North Korean gov­ern­ment into call­ing off the test (for tech­ni­cal rea­sons, nat­u­rally). Of course, that side of me also thought they were …

No Santa

I started writ­ing this post to point out that the coör­di­nated demands by vir­tu­ally every major nut­case over the New York Times’ reveal­ing the data-mining of bank­ing records via SWIFT — the calls for exe­cu­tion, harass­ment, lynch­ing, etc. — was a clear indi­ca­tion that Karl Rove is no longer a tar­get of Fitzgerald’s inves­ti­ga­tion. The much-vaunted “Fitzmas” is over, …