In the late 60’s, Andy Warhol said that in the future, “everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” I have always taken Warhol’s statement as an ironic comment on how the modern mass media creates so many fleeting celebrities, like the couple who crashed the White House dinner or one-hit wonders such as A-ha and […]
I love the lists that so-called experts compile for mass media publications because they are always so full of hidden ideology and propaganda. The lists always seem harmless, be it of the top 10 cities for retirees or of the top 15 places for singles. Yet behind each list are a set of assumptions and […]
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Mitt Romney comes to the American people with business acumen as his best selling point. No doubt about it: Mitt Romney has demonstrated that he is a highly successful business executive. He made hundreds of millions for his company when he headed Bain, and then did a competent job as the leader of the business […]
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The people carrying the “We built it” signs on the floor of the Republican Convention are not referring to the same “thing” to which President Obama referred when he rhetorically said “You didn’t build that” to business owners in a speech weeks ago. The “We build it” standard bearers are talking about their businesses and […]
I was expecting to read that Cassandra Peterson, AKA Elvira Mistress of the Night, helped Mitt Romney with his many props as he explained his energy plan yesterday, because it was, as Cassandra in her low-cut, high thigh-slit gown, used to say, déjà vu again…and again…and again. Romney’s plan is the same plan proposed by John […]
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As it turns out, when you put the voters leaning one way or another in the respective columns of President Obama and Mitt Romney (I am reluctant to call him governor, sine he has repudiated everything he did as a Governor of Massachusetts), there are only 3-5% of likely voters who are undecided. Thus, all […]
I’m not sure what Missouri Republican candidate to the U.S. Senate Todd Akin and other social conservatives mean by the term “legitimate rape.” When considering new terms or idiomatic expressions, the Urban Dictionary is sometimes useful. It just came out with a definition of legitimate rape: “Rape between one man and one woman who are […]
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Tooling around the Internet, I found two Forbes articles by a science writer named David DiSalvo that denigrate education and knowledge. Both are lists, one of do’s and the other of don’ts. But instead of just titling the articles, “Some stuff, I’ve learned along the way,” DiSalvo prefers to take pot shots at those with degrees […]
Because I clicked on the magnificent basketball game between the United States and Spain a minute early yesterday, I got to see NBC perpetrate a classic example of hiding the message in the photographs. This deceptive propaganda trick came in a 15-second commercial for the website of “Meet the Press,” called “Press Pass.” The guts […]
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For those who have trouble telling Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor apart, Ryan is the thin one with the angular jaw, full head of hair and arrogant demeanor. I guess that didn’t help much. All kidding aside, Mitt Romney’s selection of Wisconsin representative Paul Ryan as his running mate is, to state the obvious, another […]