Bad journalism as batting practice

It is with a heavy heart that I write this post.
You see, I like Christie Blatchford. I really do.
Yeah, she can be simpering at times, and she has never understood the meaning of the phrase “save the drama for your mama” … but she’s a good columnist: quick-witted, nasty as she needs to be and [...]

Shooting Fish In A Barrel

I haven’t written shit on this blog for nearly a month. And I don’t see the point in writing shit now. For two completely contradictory reasons.
The first reason can be summed up nicely by this bullshit:
During this past week: McCain called the most important entitlement program in the U.S. a disgrace, his top economic adviser [...]

Crucifying Obama

I know I’m kind of a sucker for Barack Obama these days. I know there’s a tag on my blog that exists because I keep posting about cool shit that he does. I know I’m supposed to use this blog to call out the bullshit obfuscation that is so prevalent in politics instead of cheerleading [...]

The Crazy Primaries: In 10 Minutes

If you missed all the weirdness, or even some of it, MSNBC has put together a wonderful 10-minute recap of the past six months of American politics … it’s really all you need to see to come to the same conclusion as Stan Marsh.
“Dude … this is fucked up right here.”

Aging Gracefully

Sports, and sports fandom, exist partly to mark the passage of time.
You can see it in the names we give to some of the events (the October classic, March Madness, etc.), by the way a diehard fans of certain sports use championships and other events as a way to remember dates (ask a Maple Leaf [...]

Typical American Racism

Hey! Check it out everybody! this comes from the file of Shit-I-Probably-Shouldn’t-Have-Needed-Maps-To-Realize…
First, a map of how Barack Obama stacks up against John McCain in current electoral college votes as of this week (Obama is blue, obviously):

Next, we have this map:

But to play the race card in this election would be just another example of Obama’s [...]

Election stories Vol. 884: In which I chortle as a muckraker gets smacked down by a veteran

So there’s this little kerfuffle see, because Barack Obama went out and claimed that his uncle helped to liberate Auschwitz, and then it turned out that it was another concentration camp (whoops! Now talking heads are calling it only “a work camp”, but see the end of this post for more on that), Buchenwald, that [...]

Media Fearmongering Frenzy: A How-To Guide

Step 1: Find something that is currently “in” with the 14-40 demographic. It could be a movie, TV show, video game, doll, book or all of the above. The medium doesn’t really matter. Actually, neither does the message but we’ll get to that shortly.
Step 2: Be sure to illustrate how widely popular the target pop [...]

I take comfort in games with rules

“His arm shall be cut off like that of this bull, his neck shall be twisted off like that of a bird, his office shall not exist, the position of his son shall not exist, his house shall not exist in Nubia, his tomb shall not exist in the necropolis, his god shall not accept [...]

Typical Obama Supporter is smarter than Typical Provocative Reporter

I’ve been lurking, reading, ingesting, digesting and refraining from spewing about the Democratic nomination battle because, the hope is, that after next week it will be over, and we can get back to (hah!) constructive political debate, making fun of the media and the NHL and NBA playoffs!
In other words, whatever, happens, there’s going to [...]