Definitely NOT the #FLPrimary (Lunchtime Round-Up)
In honour of my sister from another mister, Nancy Goldstein, some news from well-beyond the Sunshine State edition of the seemingly-neverending GOP national clown car tour:
- Not-meant-to-be-factually-accurate opinion journalism RULES
- On global sporting events, mega-cities, and imposing “the logic of war”
- Oh, CON-ada — our home and native land is totes open for business (damn the radical AGW theologians) h/t
- Fabbo Flanagan takedown: blinding The Atlantic’s token asshat anti-feminist with science h/t
- Is it too meta to link a round-up within a round-up? Meh. I’ll risk it. h/t
- Yep — when I think sober, down-the-middle intel analysis, I think MEMRI & Palestinian Media Watch
- NYPost, other NYC tabloids (un)fair & (im)balanced in mad rush to smear woman who accused NewsCorps employee/NYPD commish’s son of rape
- The Progressive is well on top of the Tucson Unified School District book banning scandal h/t
- “It’s like Brooks is some sort of Sisyphean device that has one purpose: to take any possible social paradigm observation, smash it with a sledgehammer, and reconstruct the bits in order to fit his god-awful worldview of bipartisanship, even if the pieces don’t fit and had nothing to do with the original observation in the first place, and he has to repeat that until the end of time.” Ever want to hug a run-on sentence for being awesome, despite itself?
- On the murky ethics of pet taxidermy (yes, this is a thing. Ew?)
- Speaking of murky ethics (of a decidedly more impactful variety): Obama WH claims unilateral authority to sanction w/o trial the assassination of US citizens accused of terrorism
- Why AZ Gov. Jan Brewer never should have fingered POTUS (Stop that. Also, I unequivocally denounce & reject point #1. POTUS != monarch.)
- Finally, this (yes, I’m a big ol’ softie)
Great list, and the video is awwwwsome.
Going to have to add you to my blogroll.