[After my previous post on sugar and high fructose corn syrup being everywhere, I found this page. "Intellectually dishonest" is the mildest qualifier which comes to mind for that page. Anyway, I decided to produce my own home-grown tripe. Read on...]
An AP piece, titled “STIMULUS WATCH: GOP opposes plan then seeks money“, implies that some Republicans politicians are inconsistent because they opposed Obama’s stimulus bill and yet petitioned to get some of the stimulus money to their constituents. The article implies that the mere action of opposing the stimulus bill combined with the mere [...]
Cessna has put out a piece of propaganda containing this gem:
Study after study shows companies operating business aircraft outperform competitors that don’t.
The implication is: buy a business aircraft for your company and you’ll outperform your competitors. Dear Cessna, is this really the logic you want to espouse? Has it occurred to you that [...]
Vintage ads is on a roll:
Bloody… hell… In which universe is this a winning strategy?
Captain Morgan: the choice of horny creeps everywhere.
This ad just boggles the mind:
I like to look at old ads for fun. A good deal of our culturally based assumptions do not stand the test of time and so look ridiculous seen from the vantage point of a later age. I’ve seen the ad above many times on sites dedicated to [...]
Readers will notice that I’ve added Google ads to my site. I’ve tried to make them as unobtrusive as possible. This is an experiment I’m running to experience for myself what the fuss is all about.
The Amazing Bernanke: recession could end in ‘09
Yesterday, during a séance, the Amazing Bernanke predicted that the recession will “probably” end this year… but “maybe not”. Bernanke explained that “if” the government turns out to be successful at saving the banking system, then “perhaps” the recession will end this year. He added that [...]
I’ve been ranting several times here about how journalists in the US have abdicated their role. They’ve stopped asking the hard questions. Does this mean that all journalism has gone to hell? No. There are still journalists out there doing a spectacular job. I have for evidence an episode [...]
Lawrence M. Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia and Citizendium, has published an article which explains perfectly why I don’t usually bother contributing to Wikipedia (p. 64):
Over the long term, the quality of a given Wikipedia article will do a random walk around the highest level of quality permitted by the most persistent and aggressive people who [...]
President Obama should be impeached for coming up with the following statement:
We’ve got a unique opportunity to reboot America’s image around the world and also in the Muslim world in particular. So we need to take advantage of that.
Reboot? Really? Coooome oooon! How can the “US image among Muslims” be “rebooted”? [...]
