Homage to Icarus

[Disclosure: I dropped a day’s pay on Obama’s cam­paign about a week before the pas­tor thing hap­pened, and hope I never feel com­pelled to write about this elec­tion again.]
Matt Taibbi is (as usual, and in spite of his ridicu­lous hump­ing of Hunter Thompson’s legacy) repeat­edly cor­rect in his assess­ment of American pol­i­tics as a bunch of […]

A friend of mine IM’d me an arti­cle osten­si­bly about how Russia is trag­i­cally under the (now-former) KGB’s thumb again. Yes, yes, we all know Putin is a dirty bas­tard who should never be in charge of any­thing more involved than [insert menial civil-service gig here]. And the more media-savvy (ahem) will fig­ure out that […]

It’s actu­ally pretty amaz­ing how crazy TV has got­ten since I stopped watch­ing it. Obviously, I can’t know for cer­tain how crazy it is, since I don’t own one, but I read blog­gers talk about ABC putting on shows about “how soon is the apoc­a­lypse,” and sup­pos­edly some CNN anchor was recy­cling bull­shit from WorldNetDaily […]

Yep, I was fooled. No homo­erotic missile-on-missile action. No death from above.
The para­noid, cyn­i­cal, haven’t-slept-in-a-week side of me thinks the sto­ries were planted as part of a last-ditch effort to frighten the North Korean gov­ern­ment into call­ing off the test (for tech­ni­cal rea­sons, nat­u­rally). Of course, that side of me also thought they were crazy […]

Friday, on the way home from work, I fig­ured the U.S. would try to shoot down the North Korean mis­sile test. The NPR story men­tioned that pos­si­ble out­come, and they wouldn’t do so unless one of their sources men­tioned it. Further, since the sources for this story would come from the for­eign pol­icy estab­lish­ment, AKA […]