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The Role of Extremst Rhetoric on the Actions of the Mentally Ill Is a Legitimate Concern for Public Discourse and Media Reporting: Right Wing Hypocrisy and Double Standards

What this post is about: The role of extremist rhetoric influencing less than mentally sound people to act violently is a legitimate concern for both news coverage and public discourse. But how we engage in that as a finding of fact, and as a subject for discourse varies tremendously; there is a good way, and [...]

MN-03: Should Tax Dollars Go to LIKE Erik Paulsen on FACEBOOK ?

QUERY : How can you tell a Fiscal Conservatives from a Faux-Fiscal Conservative ? ANSWER : See how they spend YOUR TAXDOLLARS on their Members’ Representational Allowances. Last week, the House approved it’s budget for itself … including requesting $573,939,282 for Members’ Representational Allowances (MRA) … that’s the monies they use to pay their office [...]

Limbaugh Apologizes to Fluke…..sort of, in a non-apology apology

I heard it on the radio news a few hours ago, and this article from the AP expanded on the information. Rush was just making ‘a joke’. NO, Rush Limbaugh was not making a ‘joke’ for three days; he was on a nasty, vicious rant that was intended to be critical and intended to be anything [...]

Reassessing My Social Media

update November 4, 2011: That celebrity who followed me now doesn’t follow me. Oh well, I guess he must have noticed he was following me. And I unfollowed Robert Reich and Dave Winer. The Shannon File’s John Shannon recently assessed how he used social media, opting for the elimination of his Facebook page. I read [...]