Cultural Subterfuge

Pseudo news gets hard hitting! The general perception of bloggers are that we are pseudo journalists. Technically we might be called journalists, since blogging is a form of journaling - we'll grab at any semblance of credibility. So many of us have a passing interest in issues related to the field, such as "does the media have any true influence?" The answer depends: if journalists are trying to grab at a semblance of credibility themselves they say that they are the opinion makers; if they are trying to duck responsibility for some outrageous statement they usually say" no, we can't make any one do ... Read Full Story

I won the British Lottery...see you suckers around! It seems that Homer Simpson will finally be leaving FOX TV. The popular character resigned from the long running TV series shortly after receiving the following letter in the mail. BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS: 28 TAN FIELD ROAD, CROYDON, LONDON. CUSTOMER SERVICE Ref: UK/940X2/68 Dear Selected Winner, This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash Prize of £753,437.00 in cash from the British National Lottery New Year Bonanza Draw held on the 29TH of June, 2008 in United Kingdom. We have been sending this notice to you but this is the ... Read Full Story

"So what are you doing cutting into my transmission, Oprah?" "Well I just took some time out from directing the space shuttle flight here at Main Mission Control to tell you that I know what you've been saying. I hope that doesn't rattle you. In fact I like your hustle kid! If you'll excuse me I gotta go now, there's a situation. One of my many surveillance monitors has detected that the President has been in the washroom way too long! We originally had them set up as a way to find interesting guests for the show, but they're proving more useful than I ... Read Full Story

On a related note Tom Brady is with the Pats so he's practically Irish, by a very loose definition of the word, since he wasn't born in Ireland or anything (unless he really was in which case I'm gonna have to start checking my facts. You can only get away with those wild broad side shots for so long before there are consequences. I hear that they eventually wired Ann Coulter's jaw shut! She's not Irish either, but still that seems a bit harsh). He is married to Gisele Bundchen , who isn't Irish either. Oh well, Creampeace everybody! Some one else who isn't ... Read Full Story

Do you believe that standardized testing is an accurate measure of intelligence? Well then it might come as some surprise to you that George W Bush's SAT scores were higher than Bill Clinton's . Clinton scored 1032, Bush the Younger scored 1206 (IQ conversion to an estimated 110 and 123 respectively). Surprising but is there a trend? Let's see. The link between cleverness and wickedness is common knowledge (get rid of common knowledge and it's possible for the intelligent to retain their virtue!), so it should be no surprise that some of the right's most nefarious personalities also aced their SATs. Rush Limbaugh got ... Read Full Story