Comedy is all about superfluous energy, those impulses that have nowhere else to go but into enjoyable mischief.
-Michael Blakemore, Arguments with England: A Memoir
"There is great daring that occurs when one actively ignores public opinion."
-Keri Smith
When do private thoughts lead to a public flogging? Probably right around the time you begin posting them on the Internet for everyone to read. DeVry ticked at kvetching on prof blog
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Media Prostitutes
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell
Revelations George W Bu$h met with newspaper editors of the papers of record for the ruling elites: The New York Times and Washington Post in an attempt to persuade them not to print stories critical or revelatory of the administration policies is not surprising at all. The fascists have set out to commandeer the media and make it a reflection of their warped megalomaniacal jingoist agenda. This tactic is not new. The ruling elites determined and plotted following WWII to infiltrate and influence media content under the auspices of a CIA program called Operation Mockingbird.
• Alas it is becoming more and more evident the revolution will not be televised [Record bad year for tech security How Profitable is Cybercrime? ; The NSA Division of Illegal Wiretapping presents: Your Government Working for You! Tom the Dancing Bug ; Call him a fame hound, a jerk, or a loudmouthed nerd, but Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos, has a way of getting people to listen I hate Washington Kos Kall ; When society forgets its mistakes, those mistakes are bound to repeat Blogging: Upcoming books & Classics]
• · Wonkette's Sex Change Wonkette is dead -- long live Wonkette ; Vast deposits of personal information sit in databases across the internet Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists
• · · Google steps up its challenge to Microsoft, announcing plans for a video and TV net service. What's cooking at Google? ; Blogging: Scholarship or Distraction?
• · · · It seems that admiring men with balls is back in fashion if the eulogising of Kerry Packer is anything to go by. Even feminists are waxing lyrical about Kerry having the right genitalia for the job. Kerry Packer: admiring men with balls ; >; How good a businessman was Packer?
• · · · · Holocaust survivor makes sure no generation forgets ; No civilization lasts forever, and there is no political, economic, social, educational, religious or other 'solution' that will make the members of any civilization suddenly and radically change their behaviour The crowd is always wiser than the experts
• · · · · · Name That Source: Why are the courts leaning on journalists?" Jeffrey Toobin will have this "Annals of Law" essay Name That Source: in PDF version ; For love of research