Charles Stross explains.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
A Look At Fascism
…by Life Magazine, in 1938 (starts on page 31). Yup, that Italy was sure one right-wing, unregulated capitalist nirvana.
Have We Reached A Tipping Point?
Is this the year that the media no longer cheer leads the warm mongers?
Crunch Time For Health Care
Now it’s up to us.
I find it ironic that the thuggish congressman Grayson is accusing Republicans of wanting people to die, when Robert Reich is very explicit about that as the Dem’s plan.
Law And War
…in outer space. Glenn Reynolds and Kenneth Anderson on bombing the moon.
Defending Capitalism
…from its petty detractors. I wish that we could come up with some other word for free market systems, though — “capitalism” is intrinsically a Marxist concept.
[Via (and viva) Veronique, a most sensible Frenchwoman]
LCROSS Overhyped
Paul Spudis says that the public is justified in being disappointed in LCROSS, to the degree that they are. he seems to be.
Esther Dyson
An interview, by Air & Space magazine.
[via Parabolic Arc]
The Decline Of America
Charls Krauthammer says that we have a choice to make. The problem is that the country is being run by people who think that such a decline is a “progressive” value, and not only favor, it but are doing everything possible to hasten it, in their goal to level the field and reduce us all to Eurosocialists.
[Update a while later]
Related, but disturbing thoughts from David Solway:
…is there a chance that America will emerge approximately intact after the 2012 election, send Obama packing back to Chicago where he belongs, and gradually recover the strength, dignity, and economic vitality it has forfeited to a charlatan? Might the 2010 congressional elections apply the brakes and at least slow down the nation’s careening descent — what Roger Kimball calls a dégringolade — into impoverishment, stasis, and political and military weakness? Maybe. Maybe not.
Obama reminds me of a Star Wars Imperial Walker, wreaking havoc and devastation with every step, but one who may not be brought down by ordinary Americans who understand the danger he represents. The fear is that Obama has amassed so much power, aided by a Pravda-esque media and backed by a like-minded political clientele among left-wing voters and significant minorities, that he may be invulnerable. But, unfortunately, his country is not.
I think that the Republic will ultimately prevail, but the immediate future looks very ugly.
Annoying
As a “rocket scientist” (I hate that phrase), I wish that everyone in the media would stop saying that NASA crashed a “rocket” into the moon. A rocket put it into space, but what crashed into the moon were spacecraft (though they had small rocket motors on them). I don’t actually even like the term “rocket” for a launch vehicle. It’s like calling a car an “internal combustion engine.”