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2010-08-24
Jihadists Seize on Mosque Protests "The holy war is heating up: Islamic radicals are using the protests against the Islamic center near ground zero for their propaganda, according to The Wall Street Journal. 'When it comes to propaganda, extremists are pure opportunists,' one official says. 'They'll use whatever they can.' Another counterterrorism consultant says, 'We are handing al Qaeda a propaganda coup, an absolute propaganda coup'" [from today's Daily Beast Cheat Sheet]. 2010-03-18
This blog is now located at http://affectedscorn.blogspot.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click here. For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to http://affectedscorn.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default. Glenn Beck accused of communism Jon Stewart caught Glenn Beck in an inconsistency last Monday night (surprise! surprise); it was reported—with video included—on the Huffington Post thusly:
2010-03-16
Nipping innumeracy in the bud Ed Zotti, who may or may not be the same person as Cecil Adams, published an article in The Straight Dope earlier this month. An avid reader of this column, I immediately spotted a big problem and wrote to Ed. He asked me—through an intermediary—to post it on the Straight Dope message board under the Questions, Comments for SD Chicago/Paulina St. Journal Columns section, which I did this morning: Dear Ed,Ed responded this afternoon: This is a dagger to the heart of my analysis.One nice thing about both(?) Ed and Cecil: they own up to their mistakes. 2010-02-18
Why is NBC f*#@ing up Olympic coverage? On Tuesday Henri Blodget, in his blog at The Business Insider, asked six sets of questions of NBC about their television coverage of the Olympics:
Personally, I'm not a big follower of the Olympics, but I think this is a good set of questions and I'd love to see NBC's answers. BTW, Mr Blodget is also CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The Business Insider. 2010-02-12
R.I.P. Walter Frederick Morrison It was perhaps the least useful spin-off of the Space Race. But Walter Fredrick Morrison watched his invention, the Frisbee, glide through more than 50 years of success before his death this week. [Via today's Daily Beast Cheat Sheet.] 2010-01-20
The Known Universe From the American Museum of Natural History, via NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for today. Frequently using the Digital Universe Atlas, every object in the video has been rendered to scale given the best scientific research in 2009, when the video was produced. The film has similarities to the famous Powers of Ten video that has been a favorite of many space enthusiasts for a generation. 2010-01-19
Fake News Gets Real Fake news shows like The Daily Show are sometimes criticized for not being accurate sources of information. But last night Jon Stewart gave by far the most cogent and sensible—not to mention funniest and most apoplectic—commentary I've come across on the position in which Barack Obama and the Democrats find themselves in the face of losing Ted Kennedy's former Senate seat to the Republicans. The whole segment is worth watching, but the final 3½ minutes, which neatly summarize the Democrats' predicament, contain the essence of it.
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