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Archive for February, 2004

Ow!

Kevin T. Keith solves his own problems in rugged, manly fashion, because he’s an idiot.

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Kill 'em All

and let God sort ‘em out

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The New York Post reports that on the first day of public screenings of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. a woman in Wichita, Kansas, suffered a fatal heart attack during the crucifixion scene. Not to make light of such a tragedy, it somehow seems in keeping with the enormous hysteria over the movie. [...]

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A Travesty of Justice

The ball that “cost” the Cubs a place in World Series is going to be blown up tonight. This is a travesty. The ball has done nothing wrong. It did ask to be hit, it did not ask to be dropped, and it certainly didn’t let all those runs in. Whats worse, is that this [...]

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What the Hell?

How the hell is this anything other than anti-Semitism Drawing attention to the Jewishness of the neocons is a tricky game. Anyone who does so can count on automatically being smeared as an anti-Semite. But the point is not that Jews (who make up less than 2 percent of the American population) have a monolithic [...]

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The Bias of Fox News

UPDATE: Intro and link were broken, now fixed. In this thread, where I challenged readers to demonstrate examples of NPR’s bias, I was personally challenged to demonstrate the bias of Fox News. Ask and ye shall receive. Have a look at this report from a Portland, Oregon TV station on a case involving a religious [...]

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More on the Passion

This is the best article I have seen on the implications of the anti-Semitism of the Passion, and what it says about the Conservatives who supported it: In its representation of its Jewish characters, The Passion of the Christ is without any doubt an anti-Semitic movie, and anybody who says otherwise knows nothing, or chooses [...]

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France Takes Lead on Haiti

They are asking for a UN force to help stabilize the situation. France called Wednesday for the immediate formation of a United Nations-backed security force to go to Haiti and stabilize the country, which is in the third week of a rebel uprising. It also urged President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to resign. The proposal, which was [...]

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Iraqi Cleric: Give Us Elections

This was always the biggest question hanging over the occupation: what to do if democracy produces a government we don’t like. Well, it looks like that is on the verge of happening: Iraq’s most prominent Shiite Muslim cleric called Thursday for elections by the end of the year, signaling he would accept an interim government [...]

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NPR: Show Me The Bias

It seems that every time NPR gets mentioned in a debate, some conservative is decrying the pervasive leftist bias that’s supposedly prominent at NPR. I hear this a lot, from a lot of different conservatives, most recently this guy (what was NPR supposed to do, censor the opposition?). The topic even came up at the [...]

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