Michael De Adder penned this brilliant cartoon back in late August, and I wish it had gone out of date but it is more relevant by the moment.I also wish, I suppose, that fear of the mob were the only thing motivating media moguls, because, when it is conflated with their own Murdockesque goals, it’s […]
Better to headline today’s blog with the hopeful words of Musa Kart than the more pragmatic words of HL Mencken: (T)he whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.Not that Kart doesn’t […]
The Facebook thing isn’t going away, and it’s probably less a testament to the harm done than a testament to Facebook’s ubiquity and how we all love a pile-on.Tom the Dancing Bug has a nice roundup of complaints, though I’d argue with him, or at least with them, on the one at the upper right, […]
One advantage of living in Australia is that it’s already tomorrow, so David Rowe got a jump on his American colleagues, who are (as I write this at 5:25 AM EST) just pouring their first cups of coffee.Though I see the NY Daily News also picked up on the irresistable straightline Moore handed everyone. I […]