Updating the ancient Greek myth of the Chimera The New York Times weighs in on presidential wannabe Sarah Palin‘s commemoration of what would have been the 100th birthday of conservative icon, Ronald Reagan: SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Sarah Palin opened a weekend centennial celebration to Ronald Reagan by declaring that the United States was lurching toward a “road to ruin,” …
Jon Stewart busts one of Rupert Murdoch’s Stepford wives, Megyn Kelly, on Fux News’ use of Nazi comparisons…
Mugshot of Jared Loughner after massacring six and wounding fourteen When asked if his daughter, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), currently in a medically induced coma after taking a bullet to the brain, had any political enemies, Spencer Giffords replied: “Yeah, the whole Tea Party.” While at present there is no direct line of evidence linking Jared Loughner to the Tea …
From Wikipedia: The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This …
Rethug dogs wag the Administration’s tail Larry Beinhart, author of the one of the most revealing and prescient political movies evah, Wag the Dog, compares the renewal of the Bush tax cuts with: …driving your car off the cliff, paying a tow truck twice the price of the car to haul it back up, then driving it back over because …
