Because they don’t care, any more than they care about getting science right. And it never occurs to them that maybe this is one of the reasons why they haven’t been doing well in terms of selling movie tickets. The Deer Hunter was ruined for me by shooting what was supposed to be Pennsylvania in the Olympic Mountains, but apparently they don’t realize how stupid that was, or care that it was so grating to some people.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
What Do The Candidates Think About Space Policy?
Short answer: with the exception of Newt, they don’t. On the day of the Iowa cauci, a survey from (Iowa native) Jeff Foust.
Our Long National Iowa Nightmare
…is almost over. I’m hoping for ties, and continued ties all the way to the convention.
Global Cooling
The Canadian Senate actually pays attention to climate skeptics. Canada has a lot to fear from a return of the glaciers.
Lessons Learned From FDR
…the wrong ones.
Thomas Friedman
…you pitiful fool.
Be Careful Today And Tonight
…billions may die. Sorry, when you believe wacky stuff, you don’t get points for earnestness.
Watching TV With Your Kids Over The Holidays?
Try Firefly. I noticed that there was a Firefly festival last weekend on one of the cable channels.
Obama, Trapped In Carter Country
Some thoughts from Ed Driscoll on parallels between the two presidents. I found this part interesting:
Obama doesn’t like people. He likes himself.
He appears to have a long-standing pattern of disconnection from others. Where are the voices of those who grew up with him, went to school with him, worked with him? It is eerily quiet.
Naturally, there are those who disagree with the notion that our president is aloof.
Despite the narrative in Washington of Mr. Obama as a loner, his friends and aides say he likes people just fine. He looked positively ebullient when he worked the crowd at a hangar last Wednesday at Fort Bragg, N.C., reaching out to nearly every one of 3,000 troops returning from Iraq.
No surprises there. Obama knows how to work a crowd. Apparently, he is downright ebullient when doing so. But that is not the same thing as liking other human beings and connecting with them. Working the crowd is about his ego. And a photo op.
Obama holds himself apart.
Something about him is off kilter.
And lots of people know it.
Republicans and Democrats, alike.
It reminds me of the classic line by Linus from Peanuts: “I love mankind, it’s people I can’t stand.”
Yes, Virginia, There Really Were Communists
…and Woodie Guthrie was one of them. And along with Pete Seeger, an apologist for Stalin.