There are three basic kinds of facts: Real facts, legal facts, and political facts. “Real facts,” as the term implies, are reality. “Legal facts” are the pictures lawyers paint to juries, which may bear little or no resemblance to reality. “Political facts” are wh[...]
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July 15th, 2024 - 5:17 pm § in Israel/Palestine
A swing and a miss
“Hamas said Sunday [its] military commander was in good health, a day after the Israeli military targeted Mohammed Deif with a massive airstrike that local health officials said killed at least 90 people, including children,” Huffington Post reported on Monday, July 15, 2024 (photo b[...]
Yellow journalism
The Daily Mail, a U.K.-based tabloid, is a mixed bag. They pay for tips and photos, a disreputable practice in professional journalism circles. They’re also a rightwing propaganda soapbox and not above yellow journalism. But they often have pictures, names of suspects, and other information be[...]
June 25th, 2024 - 12:37 am § in Business, News Media
Everett Herald’s new owners greet staffers with pink slips
The Everett Herald was sold with its parent company to a Mississippi news conglomerate in March 2024. That company, Carpenter Media Group, promptly laid off over half of the paper’s newsroom staff (read story here and watch video below). Herald news staff formed a union in 2022 and had been tr[...]
June 24th, 2024 - 3:16 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Losing candidate isn’t entitled to “confidence” in election
Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), who is trailing his primary opponent by 373 votes, plans to challenge the outcome and hopes to block certification of Lynchburg’s votes “due to his ‘lack of confidence’ in the results” (read story here). “We’re going to be making the legal chal[...]
GOPer demands Biden take drug test before debate
This is political theater, nothing more. It’s in the category of “believing something makes it true.” For example, “if Republicans believe elections are unfair, that makes them unfair.” The polite term for this is “logical fallacy;” the impolite term starts [...]
Fox is already inciting election violence
Fox’s talking heads are already inciting election violence. They must want another Jan. 6, 2021. “Twice last week,” MSNBC reported here, Greg Gutfeld (photo, left) told Fox audiences “the public will only believe the 2024 results are legitimate if President Joe Biden loses.” Also las[...]
Would deporting illegals make housing cheaper?
I’m thinking yes, if you deport several million of them, simply because it would bring housing demand closer in line with housing supply. That’s because America has a housing shortage, and if you reduce the number of people who need housing, you can end the game of musical chairs and bri[...]
June 9th, 2024 - 9:02 pm § in Biden, Republicans
When the first thing Republicans think of is poop
Don’t say Republicans lack imagination. They have very vivid imaginations. You may want to hold your nose at what they imagine, though. A Politico fact-check begins, “President Joe Biden commemorated the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France …. Not long after h[...]
GOPer shows off his literary prowess
Derrick Van Orden is a first-term GOP congressman representing a district in southeast Wisconsin. He lost his first election in 2020, but won in 2022. I think the voters were right the first time. Van Orden impresses me as someone who goes around with his mouth open and ears closed (see photo at le[...]