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Wrong Again

It has been a long time since I’ve enjoyed being proven wrong as much as I did in the comments section of this blog post about genetics (& Kobe Bryant) by Razib Khan. And since a belief I held so … Continue reading

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Silliness on Steve Jobs’ Legacy as a “Job Creator”

Tim Noah has a blog post attacking Eric Cantor, who can stick up for himself, but Noah also unfortunately slandered Steve Jobs, who cannot. I was writing an email to Noah to address this problem, but I figured that a … Continue reading

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Puzzle about Journalism

From the New York Times article 5 days ago “Romney Beating Obama in a Fight for Wall St. Cash“: Mitt Romney has raised far more money than Mr. Obama this year from the firms that have been among Wall Street’s … Continue reading

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Glenn Greenwald Confuses the Readers

He explains that recent Wikileaks cables reveal that U.S. forces may have murdered several Iraqi civilians (including women and children) in their house, and later covered it up with an airstrike on that house. Then he complains that the U.S. … Continue reading

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Vibe-based Reporting

One point of contention in a debate about religion between Sam Harris, a prominent atheist, and Chris Hedges, the former New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief, was the issue of how common among Muslims worldwide is the support for … Continue reading

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Military Planners OUT at The New York Times!

From the New York Times editorial yesterday, opining on Obama’s speech about Afghanistan troop withdrawal plans: He said that 10,000 of the 33,000 troops from the “surge” would come home before the end of this year, with the rest out … Continue reading

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You know we’re losing control of the meaning of the term “conspiracy theory”

when a National Review columnist (the guy on the right) does not object to the use of that term to describe the view that the source of Anthony Weiner’s twitter account’s controversial tweet was….. Anthony Weiner. (critical question: who would … Continue reading

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NY Times admits to basing its linguistic decisions on U.S. government diktat

(UPDATED Monday 2pm: last paragraph changed based on feedback from my friend Adam) The New York Times’ ombudsman has a column on the Times’ practice of not (generally) using the word “torture” when describing the way the Bush administration dealt with … Continue reading

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