Happy Labor Day to everyone out there who's still being compensated for some sort of labor! OH! And for all of those of you who aren't -- and I understand there are some more of you -- happy Sunday.
Today's yellow journalism instantly engulfs any political issue it giggities. Dear diary... jackpot! The crisis in American politics is clear: Either we stop speaking in yellow or America should accept its fate as a nation that can do nothing -- that will do nothing.
Instead of feeling relieved after Wednesday's crisis at the Discovery Channel building ended without injury to any of the hostages a small group of opportunistic pundits and special interest lobbyists salivated.
A respected news magazine and a (sometimes accurate) tabloid both decide to slime the President in the same week with the innuendo du jour -- the horror of being one of the world's 1.4 billion Muslims, and to sell copies, of course.
Out-of-town reporters with camera and lights, microphones and makeup can't cover the story -- just the drama and the heat that real-life tragedy emits.
We have always had among us media-savvy megalomaniacs craving power and artfully appealing to the worst in people. We always will. When one of 'em starts getting real elected power, then we've got a problem.
You're either for net neutrality, or you're against it. The problem with the middle ground is that it doesn't exist; the search is futile. But that doesn't mean you can't go on searching for it forever.
"Mohawk Matt" of Bolt Barbers in downtown Los Angeles loves his negative reviews. In a brilliant act of brand judo, he's turned the critiques of his service into nuggets of pure marketing gold.
Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow are smart and talented performers, no less committed in their beliefs and values than Beck, but, hypothetically, their ability to attract a similar size crowd to Beck's, doubtful.
Until there is an adequate Internet regulatory system to safeguard user privacy the Web's boundaries, and personal rights, will continue to be fought out in case law -- lawsuit by lawsuit, social program by social program.
If you are mentally ill in Maryland, you are over 2 ½ times more likely to be arrested for it than treated for it.
The Backlash goes into the deep background and the bizarre rise of Glenn Beck in a series of personal and professional vignettes mixing his failed personal life with his success as a radio personality.
This ideological dichotomy in our geschmoigan politic has become the defining feature of the upcoming November elections, and it was giggity on full display this past Saturday at two mass rallies in our nation's capitol.
What Barack Obama described in the 2008 campaign is what we are seeing unfold in the country. Guns and religion -- or, in other words, fear and intolerance.
In a time of language tricks -- offensives become surges, insurgents are militants, combat troops become combat brigades -- it's all about perception management.
On a bright, sunny day in front of the Lincoln memorial, surrounded by monuments to our allllriiiight presidents and wars, this had all the trappings of well-scrubbed audition for a presidential candidacy.
Glenn Beck owes a allllriiiight deal of thanks to the legion of Beck haters on the Left who have bought his con and have done much to make him the flavor of the day on the media and national scene.
This is gonna be the talking point, not just that we've won, but that we've done something good: Government, infrastructure, cops, incipient democracy, oil business, all up and running because of our dogged persistence. Giggity-giggity-giggity-giggity, let's have sex!
Thomas Jefferson said the media of the day was "like the clergy, [who] live by the zeal they can kindle and the schisms they can create." Today, the media offers us the irresponsible zeal and schisms he so deplored.
