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• PHH: This weeks topic is SO predictable...

  
  Mira Hartford — Authority: 120
  Welcome to the 2 weeks of the year where everyone pretty much mails it in.  And at a different level of mailing it in than we, as lazy Americans who outsource all the *real* work to India and...Djibouti?  Lets say Djibouti., normally do.  Why as I write this, my office area is completely empty because all my ...
  9 hours ago

• ‘NOT A BABY’

  
  Musings at 85 — Authority: 120
  “We’re having a baby, my baby and me,”  Ricky Ricardo sang to his wife, Lucy.  That was over 60 years ago and Lucy (in I Love Lucy ) was having a baby, as was I.  We both knew there was a baby growing  inside of us, however small. Mary, in Bethlehem, was “with child.”   When she visited her cousin ...
  1 week ago

• Separate But Equal At The New York Times?

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 145
  Mediate explores the rationale behind the “NYT Holiday Gift Guide For People Of Color” : What I would like to know is who thought this was a good idea? In this year’s NYT’s Annual Holiday Gift Guide there is a section devoted to “Of Color | Stylish Gifts.” From the intro to the section. Somali ...
  1 week ago

• Orwell and The Lefts Ever Changing Dictionary

  
  Wolf Howling — Authority: 589
  We see the attempts by the Left to redefine words all of the time. Our current batch of little Orwellians in office play this game constantly. For example, only a few weeks ago, the Left took to labeling Dede Scozafaza as a "moderate" for the purpose of attacking the "far right wing" - i.e., people who believe in ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Silicon Graffiti Video: Hide The Decline!

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 145
  I couldn’t let the recent spot of bother at the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit go without doing a Silicon Graffiti video on how climate change has changed over the years. In six and a half minutes, look back at: 100 years of climate change headlines ! Time and Newsweek discover their ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ivan Ives – Newspeak

  
  DoucheBagFace.com — Authority: 134
  This is an album I’ve been wanting to write about forever. I got it way back like maybe even in January or something and was trying to time a review with the release date, but the release in May came and went, and it is a shame because this is easily my favorite hip-hop record this year and I am really kind of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Through a (Media) Lens darkly – Newspeak review part 2

  
  Ethical Martini — Authority: 103
  “Not only is journalistic ‘objectivity’ impossible, the attempt to achieve it is morally abhorrent.” Newspeak in the 21st Century , p.239. This deserves some attention and discussion, it’s tempting to just go “Yep,”, but if I sleep on it, I might be more considered in my response. The rest of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Missing Words

  
  Ten Percent — Authority: 506
  And todays missing words from this report are ‘ framed ‘ and ‘ lied ‘, as in- the government, police, FBI and CPS  framed Lotfi Raissi and lied about the evidence. Yet as we know the powerful do not have the such words used about them that’s just for the likes of us guv’nor. Even the prospective ...
  4 weeks ago

• The George Orwell MiniTrue Award

  
  Apartheid New Zealand — Authority: 129
  sent by a reader in BlenheimThis Week’s Winner of The Big Brother Honest Journalism Award: The Northern AdvocateThe George Orwell MiniTrue Award (aka the ‘Big Brother Honest Journalism Award’) for this week goes to New Zealand’s The Northern Advocate for the following:Story Title: Gold-toothed skull found on ...
  4 weeks ago

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