The sun is not going too “explode, scattering heavy elements into the cosmos.” It doesn’t have enough mass. It will eventually become a red giant.
Pro tip. Stick to sports.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Practicing “Safe Journalism”
Safe for Democrats, anyway.
The Waw Of Nawthuhn Aggression
Against Paula Deen.
As I noted earlier, some of this is rooted in nutritional ignorance:
You don’t get diabetes from fatty foods, or the Inuit, who traditionally lived on whale blubber and seal fat, would all be diabetic. Well, actually they are now, but they never were until they started eating flour and sugar, which is the problem with Paula Deen’s cooking as well.
But most of the criticisms I’ve seen have focused on the fat, rather than the carbs, so this is just a battle in the overall ignorant (and deadly) war on dietary fat. Not that there isn’t some anti-southern bigotry involved as well, of course. Like that against Christians, it’s the only other acceptable form of bigotry among the politically correct elite.
Egalitarianism
Collectivism isn’t a new, or “progressive” idea — it’s the oldest one in the world. Liberty is what’s new, only a couple hundred years old, but the reactionary Left wants to take us back to the past.
And read the whole thing, though it’s long. It’s quite interesting.
Mitt’s Campaign Money
What does Newt’s huge low-cost turnaround, in the face of all the money that Romney has spent, presage about the fall election with the hundreds of millions that Obama plans to raise?
[Afternoon update]
Heh: “Newt’s win in SC shows that big money can’t persuade as well as threats of violence from Chuck Norris.”
ABC News And Mrs. Gingrich
What we learned. Actually, it’s not news to me. This kind of one-sided media bias has been on full display for a very long time.
SOPA/PIPA Thoughts
…from Andrea Harris. Yes, just because Google opposes it doesn’t make it good.
Stuck In A Rut
A graph that explains why the economy is stagnating. It’s because of flawed government policies that continue to pump air into a blown tire.
Markos Is Unhappy
And I’m feeling a lot of schadenfreude.
Related: did social media usage drive Republicans more than Democrats? That seems counterintuitive but it may be so.
The Coming Higher-Ed Revolution
It’s inevitable, but there will be a lot of vicious fighting in the trenches by the entrenched before it happens.