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A few months ago I wrote up my feelings on David Brock’s “conservative misinformation” watchdog group, Media Matters, in a post entitled Menial Matters.
If you never bothered to read it or weren’t aware of its existence, Ken Marrero sums up the sentiments quite well in the following video clip:

Some countries get it:

Steve Forbes. Must give mad props. Now why was Bob Dole the Republican nominee?
Anyone, anyone?

A great comedian died yesterday, one that rallied against mysticism for reason, against government censorship for free expression.
Of course, he spewed a lot of irrational anti-business rhetoric as well, but at the very least my college English professor was incorrect about him authoring that platitude-of-platitudes, the Paradox of our Times. George Carlin may have been [...]

The second NoFx song in my NLADP series (first one here), this one arguing against marijuana prohibition via the principles of self-ownership and personal autonomy. Lyrical excerpt below:
Why be sad when happiness can be bought for a little more then free
Modern day prohibition
Are we men? Are we children?
At what age can I choose how to [...]

Err-The Happening.
Laughable marketing strategy. The previews have that cliché, scary movie-voice quivering:
From Director M. Night Shyamalan comes his first R-rated film.
Haha. Just reading it makes me laugh. But I suppose 6th graders will be impressed.
Rumor is the content mirrors the marketing.
Extremism in Defense of Liberty dismisses it as
nothing more than a piece of crass, anti-humanist [...]

Some thoughts I wrote down on Sunday’s flight back from SamSphere Kansas…
The first time I ever flew on a plane I was 22. Most people would find this fact rather odd. Yes, I agree. I’ve led a fairly grounded early life…arguably insular. Part of the reason, I suppose, lies in my parents. They don’t fly. [...]

A message of self-affirmation, free speech and anti-conscription.
Eminem - Square Dance

Hipster rap. Not segregationist, not white-washing. It’s just fun.
From this week’s Reader, an argument that ought to be thoughtfully considered within the entire race debate:
Oh Word blogger Sach O claims hipster rap is “intended for an affluent, generally educated white audience wanting to dabble in the excesses of black music absent from more restrained contemporary [...]

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