http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/9QuFnOYcy4E Social Security Reform Bill Encourages Americans To Live Faster, Die Younger: The new law will remove restrictions on cigarettes, drugs, and alcohol as well as provide tax incentives for seniors who bungee jump off cliffs. (Source: http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/) Continue reading
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New Bill Hicks movie with previously unseen footage and new animation techniques. Hicks was arguably the greatest comic of modern times and even though I think I’ve seen nearly everything he’s done, I’m still excited about seeing this… (Source: https://www.youtube.com/) Continue reading
People don’t trust mainstream journalism because it has forgotten how to even aspire to present reality
New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen has written an enlightening essay titled “The Quest for Innocence and the Loss of Reality in Political Journalism”. It’s an academic’s way of saying the news is kinda fatuous because often news organizations strive too hard to be ‘objective’ in a way that misses the point – they … Continue reading People don’t trust mainstream journalism because it has forgotten how to even aspire to present reality
Believe it or not, Republicans have good health reform ideas too
There’s an op-ed in the New York Times from five conservatives with constructive ideas on how to improve health care reform: Bill Frist, Mark McClellan, James Pinkerton, Charles Kolb and Newt Ginrich. Well, at least four of them have sound ideas. I think that former senator Bill Frist’s snarky intro that the Democrats have “failed … Continue reading Believe it or not, Republicans have good health reform ideas too
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