The Sun family of newspapers have always been a joke. 60% advertisements, 15% “News”, 15% Sports, and 10% conservative apologetics (or histrionics, depending on the day). Throw in a daily dose of pathetic semi-nudity and you’ve got a newspaper aimed firmly at the lowest common denominator. It’s been a very long time since I willingly [...]
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Intolerable Idiocy: How The Edmonton Sun’s Love Of Propaganda Has Finally Caused Them To Declare War On You
Posted: February 16, 2012 in Culture, Media, PoliticsTags: Bill C-51, Edmonton Sun, Fascism, Propaganda, Tabloid, Tyranny
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A Copyright Quickie: Canada Is About To Pass Sopa’s Evil Little Brother. Politely.
Posted: January 26, 2012 in Culture, Media, PoliticsTags: Censorship, copyright, Media, Piracy, Revolution, SOPA, Users Rights
I’m a Canadian. We’re a quiet bunch; prone to enjoying hockey, drinking stronger beer than our friends south of the border, and lovers of fries smothered in cheese curds and gravy. We also, apparently, have an inferiority complex when it comes to being evil dirt bags, because we’ve decided to pass our very own version [...]
Anticipating Evil: What Happens When Google Wins?
Posted: September 22, 2011 in Culture, Media, TechnologyTags: AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google Docs, Google+, Mallrats, Walled Garden
With great power comes great responsibility-Spiderman (Or Possibly Stan Lee) You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain-Harvey Dent Today, I evangelized for Google. I don’t approve, in general, of selling products for companies for free. I’ve made a career out of doing the opposite, in fact. But [...]
No "News" is Good News: Enquiring Minds and the Salvation of Print Journalism
Posted: March 15, 2010 in MediaTags: John Edwards, Media, National Enquirer, Newspapers, Pulitzer Prize
When I was a kid my grandfather frustrated the hell out of me. Anytime I said anything with any conviction he would pause, grin and reply, “Where is it written?” I loathed that phrase and the message that came with it; nothing I had to say had any weight unless it was backed up, in [...]
I English Good or; Crazy Wendigo Doctors Suffering From The Economic Downturn
Posted: March 5, 2009 in Culture, MediaTags: Uncategorized
We no longer need dictionaries. And since I, at age 11, sat down one week and tried to read one because a)I was socially ostracized because I read books and b)I hadn’t read one yet, this makes me mad. No, this isn’t going to be about the rise of text speak, although I personally think [...]
Crap Watch Vol 1. Issue 1. or; Homicide by Celluloid
Posted: February 26, 2009 in MediaTags: Arthur, The Neverending Story, Total Recall
Grrrr. Not two days have gone by. Two lousy, stinking, itty bitty days since I railed against the injustice of an entertainment industry populated exclusively by talentless hacks who delight in raping the cinematic clouds of nostalgia that permeate the memories of my childhood. And in that time, my enemies (k,maybe not my enemies since [...]
Suicide by Celluloid or; Slouching Towards Creative Oblivion
Posted: February 23, 2009 in MediaTags: Uncategorized
Of adaptations and remakes and reboots and sequels. Ghostbusters 3. In a world where it seems like everyone is losing their jobs, where Republicans are concerned about the debt being left to future generations (and if that’s not a sign of the Apocalypse I don’t know what is) and there are still people claiming that [...]
Blithering Blubbering Boomers or; Find Your Own Seat Gramps, I Don’t See A Cane.
Posted: February 17, 2009 in Culture, MediaTags: Uncategorized
As promised, zero religious content in this post (probably) I hate the elderly. Generally. I’m not talking about the very very old, they’re kind of cute, in a way too tall toddler way. I’m talking more about the 60-70 crowd. The ones who think they know everything because they were alive when racism was still [...]
The Church of Myspace or; Claustrophobic in the House of Huge
Posted: February 15, 2009 in Media, ReligionTags: Uncategorized
THIS WILL BE A LOOOONG POST. Oy. Oy. Freakin’. Vey. And le sigh. Here’s the article that’s sparked today’s plaintive cry for reason: http://www.secularstudents.org/node/1933 Read it, don’t read it, it doesn’t matter. If you’ve caught on to the theme of the last month’s worth of entries, you can probably guess what the subject of the [...]
