Category Archives: Media Criticism
Getting The Incentives Right
Enlightened women honoring gentlemen.
For quite a while, I’ve been thinking that we’ve lost the concept of a gentleman, to the point that the word has lost its meaning. It makes me crazy when I hear a newscaster say something absurd and with no apparent irony, like “…the gentleman who raped the young woman is still being sought by police.” Folks, it’s not just a synonym for “man.”
Shanghai Scrap, One
New York Times, Zero.
Hint to the Gray Lady editors: the plural of anecdote is not data. And in this case, it wasn’t even plural.
Another instance of why all the news that’s fit to print often isn’t.
No Orbital Animals For Iran
Remember that goofy press story a few days ago about Iran putting a “life capsule” in a 75-mile orbit?
Well, I just got confirmation from the JSpOC that it was indeed nonsense:
According to our Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC): “Our sensors did not detect, identify or track any space launch from Iran of the type described. No new object originating from Iran was entered into the orbiting satellite catalogue.”
Please let me know if you have any further questions.
Very Respectfully,
Rodney E. Ellison Jr., Civ
Media Operations
U.S. Strategic Command
Public Affairs Office (J020)
901 SAC Blvd. Suite 1A1
Offutt AFB, NE 68113-6020
AP and the BBC probably just bungled the Farsi translation, when it was clearly suborbital.
The Nuclear Popgun
Message to Republicans: Don’t be afraid to shut down the government.
Thoughts On Islamism
The first commenter is correct. It is impossible to have an intelligent discussion about this due to political correctness and multi-culturalism.
Markets Don’t Ration
…people do. The difference is who makes the decisions.
Radiation Dosages
…explained. A serious offering from XKCD.
But Other Than That…
“Barack Obama has been a failure in almost everything he’s done.”
Some of us are less shocked than others.
Also, appropriate smugness, at least when it comes to dealing with the real rubes. The question is, have they really learned, or will they fall for the con again next year?
[Update a few minutes later]
From community organizer to out-of-control cowboy: “I now call on Candidate Obama to protest President Obama.”
The danger of a president like this (and Hillary) was always that they’d feel compelled to demonstrate their national defense bona fides with some kind of ill-thought-out overseas action. But the up side is that it may at least get the Iranians to pay attention.
Battle: Los Angeles
Bill Whittle says go see it.