Category: Media Criticism
The Neuro-Cognitive Wisdom Of George Costanza
Given that cognitive scientists believe that up to 95% of our thinking processes are unconscious, with our 400 million year old lizard brain dominating our half million year old rational brain; given that the lizard brain has as its number one priority the perpetuation of the species (demonstrated in males by the power that the little head exercises over the …
News Actress Gretchen Carlson Wears Fancy Pants
Not only is the president not throwing a tantrum, the president is also not dressing up in Palin-esque chest waders over a haz-mat suit, but is, according to news actress Gretchen Carlson, wearing “fancy pants.”
Queen Meg In Wonderland
HuffPo: The former eBay CEO has spent more than $81 million so far – $71 million from her personal fortune. And if she wins the GOP nomination on Tuesday, it marks only the halfway point in her quest for office. Eighty one million freakin dollars for a freakin gubernatorial primary! Why anyone with so much personal wealth would want to …
Nuke It Closed?
Matt Simmons’ interview on Bloomberg News Forty days and forty nights– that’s how long the rupture of BP’s Macondo Well has been spilling its oily guts into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of nearly a million gallons per day. That is, if you accept the twice revised estimates of BP and the US government that initially pegged the …
Black On Beck
Glenn Beck thinks playing the Nazi Card is going too far; GLENN BECK! Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Black does the best takedown of the Beckster ever. Especially enjoyed that little emotional, paranoid hitch in his voice at the end.
