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What fake news?
Snippets from the Annenberg Survey, the results of which you may or may not have heard re: Daily Show viewers: Young people who watched The Daily Show scored 48% correct on the campaign knowledge test while young people who did not watch any late-night comedy scored 39% correct. Meanwhile, young people who watched four of […]
Posted by Ben on November 16, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/what-fake-news/
Who’s looking out for you?
Google saves a man’s life; The Weather Channel could have prevented a woman from falling off a second-floor balcony (although possibly not, too). The second “could have” is a little gimmicky, since it refers to the fact that the woman fell while step outside to check the weather. Whoever wrote the article’s headline presumably thought […]
Posted by Ben on November 16, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/whos-looking-out-for-you/
Jon Stewart on American Perspectives
Posted by Ben on November 12, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/jon-stewart-on-american-perspectives/
Death Row Diaries
Danny Gregory creates a gallery of portraits based on headshots of death row inmates. The Morning News hosts. Writes Gregory: I was surprised by what I discovered in their stories. Instead of evil genius, I found stupidity, dreadful planning, and a childishness surrender to id and immediate gratification. While some of the condemned are brooding […]
Posted by Ben on November 10, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/death-row-diaries/
Who’s on your dollar bill?
Apologies for this poorly cobbled-together graph, but what it shows is interesting (even if it’s not immediately obvious). Allow me to deobfuscate: What you’re seeing is based on exit polls. It shows the correlation between income and vote choice. Bush and Kerry, in this case. (Who, bowing to recent “tradition,” are red and blue, respectively.) […]
Posted by Ben on November 8, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/the-last-one-i-promise/
James Howard Kunstler Speaks
James Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere (previously quoted elsewhere on this blog) has a blog of sorts. “Of sorts,” because it has none of the easy navigation or granularity typically associated with blogs (much less the links, blogroll, etc.); if you want to adhere to the author’s intent, it’s probably best to do […]
Posted by Ben on November 8, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/james-howard-kunstler-speaks/
Oh, the Tragedy
More lit on The Commons* than you could ever conceivably want to read. Ever. (The Digital Library of the Commons) Note: * same Commons as in, e.g., the near-infamous Tragedy of the Commons.
Posted by Ben on November 8, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/oh-the-tragedy/
On snakes
An article about a snake popping up at a movie theater during a showing of (what else?) “Anacondas” has at least three juicy tidbits that lend themselves rather well to snarky commentary, what commentary you’re unfortunately going to have to supply yourself. The three bits are as follows: the snake people believe it could be […]
Posted by Ben on November 6, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/on-snakes/
Point / Counterpoint
Momus aka Nick Currie writes: For those of you thinking of leaving America today — and there are many, I’m sure — I’d say just do it. Walk away. … So just leave. America doesn’t deserve you. Walk away. America doesn’t need your talent, your creativity and your intelligence. Or rather, it needs them desperately, […]
Posted by Ben on November 4, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/point-counterpoint/