Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse: Anthony Weiner wanted to do a threesome — with another guy.
[Update a few minutes later]
More thoughts from Ace. All I can say is eeeeeeeuuuuuuuwwwww. And TMI.
You know what, though? After watching the slime for years, none of this really surprises me.
Michael Shermer may be right, but he certainly doesn’t make the case for it. It just looks like an unsupported assertion to me. And he seems to conflate AI with the Singularity.
…and media lies in general:
What would happen if all of the stories in the Times – or the Washington Post, or your local newspaper or television news – were subject to the sort of expert scrutiny as this Luo article, in a given day or week? What percentage of reporting would we discover is marginally biased, seriously slanted, or even fabricated?
I strongly suspect that the resulting scrutiny would reveal a dark and ugly secret that the media isn’t remotely interested in reporting the news, it’s interested in shaping the news, and your perception of the world.
Yes, and a full decade into the blogosphere, they still often get away with it.
Amy Alkon has become another casualty of the War On (Some) Drugs.
[Mid-morning update]
More thoughts from Jacob Sullum.
…at The Economist.
This is the first time that I’ve seen the aircraft called a “Stratolaunch.” I wonder if the correspondent knows something we don’t, or is just making a false inference? Also, I’m a little surprised that the editors don’t know the difference between a hanger and a hangar. Unless it’s a British spelling.
…of Barack Obama. And yet many continue to defend him.
…crosses swords with Don Surber. Though, actually, I think that Lovins is wielding an unsharpened Popsicle stick.
Now here’s a headline you don’t see every day. You don’t normally see oniony porcine flatulence stories this early in the week.
…and what won’t? The only problem with the analogy is that I never purposefully go to a coffee shop, because I don’t drink coffee. Starbucks would go bust in a world full of me.
I couldn’t get all the way through this article.