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Bill Maher gives some of his own tips for spotting misleading or stupid headlines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lap1YE0uAC8

I hope the title of the video was intentionallly ironic.

Perhaps you recall the dem primary in West Virginia where Bernie won every district by a lot. The state was given to Hillary. That sound like a democracy? I didn't recall that. So I looked it up. According to Wikipedia, Bernie Sanders won 51% of the popular vote. Hillary got 36% Other candidates sp...

President Bush wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 10:57 pm Things are getting strange...

Photoshop is getting too good.


ETA: Apparently....those shirts are a thing.

So, yeah, things are getting strange .....r.

This fellow over at National Review doesn't like it. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-bastardization-of-the-boy-scouts/ar-BB1m9BGJ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=LCTS&cvid=b53d3750dd45459094ec86e3d8555b7a&ei=12 The truth is, I'm quite sympathetic to what he is saying, except for one thing, but th...

Alan Dershowitz doesn't think too much of this case that Trump is now being tried for: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-trial-stupendous-legal-catastrophe-115500210.html I'm no lawyer, but I have paid attention to commentators on the case. I've heard Jon Stewart and Bill Maher talk about the case, b...

Point on American Scouts - they still don't accept atheists. Yeah...I forgot about that part. To be fair, not many people in the organization care. When I googled the subject, one of the first hits was an unofficial page for atheist scouts giving advice on how to navigate scouting as an atheist. Ba...

Some years back, the Boy Scouts of America announced that they would start accepting girls. And they have. Some 6,000 girls have now become Eagle Scouts. And yesterday, the Boy Scouts of America announced they would henceforth be "Scouting, America". But Boy Scouts is an international thin...

I was heartened that there were very few comments in the replies blaming the victim. There were some, of course. They said the victim shouldn't have answered the door holding a gun. Everyone I saw that did try to make the argument got a response explaining why it made perfect sense to have a gun in ...

Bodycam footage on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xneXZ6MnG84 It's a good thing there are body cams these days. Cops will have a hard time defending this. Without body cam footage, he would say that the "suspect" pointed the gun at him and the cop acted in self defense. I suppose...

hmmm... does the Press Clause of the First Amendment give the institutional press any freedoms from government restraint not enjoyed by everybody else? Not really. Exactly. It gives them exactly the same amount of freedom. There have been attempts to impose restraints on the press, usually in the n...