Archive for August 31, 2010
The Fascist Noise Channel
I’m listening to Mario Solis Marich on AM760 in Denver. A guy just called in and referred to Fox News as the “Fascist Noise Channel.”
I like that. I like that a lot. It fits and it’s more appropriate than a name like “Faux News,” which doesn’t really capture the cold-blooded, ruthless nature of FNC.
Hey, in my opinion, Fox can be as fascist as it wants to be — I’m a free speech nut – I just wish they’d quit lying to people about being a “news” organization; that they’d come clean and give themselves a name that reflects the truth.
Break Time — World’s Largest Drawing
Jesus — it’s amazing what our “liberal media” doesn’t cover. They stick to the revolving three-stories-a-day when if they had any imagination whatsoever, they could spice it up a bit with interesting tidbits like this:
This spectacular artwork is the world’s largest drawing and at 12.5 square miles it would be able to find room for 4,469 Wembley football pitches.
Etched onto the surface of Lake Baikal, in Russia’s windswept and frozen Siberia, it was created by land artist extraordinaire Jim Denevan and his team in March of this year.
Commissioned by clothing firm Anthropologie to create the work for their advertising tie-in series The Anthropologist, Jim, 49, spent 15 days on the surface of Lake Baikal completing the drawing.
So cool (no pun intended).
Burning the Quran is a Dangerous and Stupid Move
Undoubtedly you heard about the Florida fundamentalist “Christian” pastor, Terry Jones, who is planning on holding a Quran-burning ceremony on 9/11. Well, he and his congregation, and those who support him, have no idea how dangerous and stupid a move that is:
The threatened bonfire burning of the Quran, however, is a different matter — with more severe connotations. Even if undertaken by Jones, a Florida bigot with a minuscule congregation, most of whom likely could not find the Middle East on a map, it is seen as an act of religious warfare. Domestically, the Dove Church may already feel like old news, but in the Middle East, the resonance is deep, clear and threatening.
“Attacking the religious symbols of others is a kind of terrorism,” the Rev. Andrea Zaki Stephanous, vice-general director of the Protestant Church of Egypt,told The Root. “It dehumanizes and is a form of violence.”
Whatever happened to the feeling that we wanted to be” better” than the terrorists?
Two More Terror Attacks on American Muslims
Two more terror attacks on American Muslims have been reported today:
One in Seattle: Man Charged in Racially-Charged Attack of Turban-Wearing Man, and one in upstate New York: Five Teens Arrested in Connection With Violence at Mosque.
I am ashamed of us. Wish these attackers would just join al Qaeda and be done with it.
Halloween Candy Displays in the Stores Already?
Just got back from the grocery store — where I saw a huge display of Halloween candy. Halloween candy in August! Halloween is two freakin’ months away!
Good Morning!
It’s a good morning because fall is in the air and I can’t – can’t, can’t, can’t – wait to see this:
It’s coming.
