In case you haven’t seen it, here’s German video of Hizbollah Superhero Green Helmet acting as a director of Qana propaganda video. (h/t Ron Ackert / Tom Pechinski) I’ve written plenty on post-modernist sensibilities and wills to power in modern political thought—how such things proceed from (or, if you prefer, are reinforced by, depending on your philosophical starting point) certain linguistic assumptions that then translate into self-justifying strategems and an

From FOX News.  No other details available just now (sources:  Reuters / Al Jazeera)

From “punditron,” writing at Daily Kos: Today, we can see again what Britain gets for being a staunch ally of Bush. They get home-grown terrorists, bombings, and more terrorist plots. BREAKING:  BUSH TO BE RETROACTIVELY BLAMED FOR IRA BOMBINGS. You have to wonder what exactly are the benefits of hitching yourself to George W. It’s like when you consider making an investment or major purchase. You look at the pros

From the BBC: A major terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said. It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled on aircraft in hand luggage, with flights from the UK to the US being targeted. During the night, police arrested a number of people in London after a counter-terrorist operation they said had lasted several months. Security at all

From the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (to which I am a proud contributor): Marshall University has taken the advice of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and removed racial restrictions from an orientation course for first-year students. Last year’s listing for University Studies 101 (UNI 101) stated that certain sections were limited to “African American Students Only.” Thanks to FIRE’s intervention, several sections of UNI 101

From Michael Moore’s website, “It’s All About Who You Sleep With … a Cautionary Note from Michael Moore”: Friends, Let the resounding defeat of Senator Joe Lieberman send a cold shiver down the spine of every Democrat who supported the invasion of Iraq and who continues to support, in any way, this senseless, immoral, unwinnable war. Make no mistake about it: We, the majority of Americans, want this war ended—and

I know.  You’re shocked, aren’t you? 

It seems some in the legacy media are entering into that next phase of narrative manipulation—a redefining of terms in order to 1) provide revisionary cover for its ideological fellow travelers, and 2) to fabricate and then facilitate a bandwagon effect.  For instance, The New York Times this morning editorializes on the Lamont victory this way: The rebellion against Mr. Lieberman was actually an uprising by that rare phenomenon, irate

Available at Hot Air.  If you look over his shoulder to the left and squint a bit, you’ll see Jane Hamsher in blackface sucking down a beer bong filled with Dos Equis.  Or maybe that’s just the shadow of doom beginning its inexorable creep across a once proud nation. Hard to tell, what with the bad lighting and all. **** update:  I kid!  Who wants pirogies?

Took a brief nap this afternoon, and while I was asleep an entire propaganda war waged by “photojournalists,” stringers, caption writers, and bureau editors unraveled like a cheap sweater snagged on a bit of twisted metal infrastructure.  Allah has the roundup here—including The Passion of the Toys (Slublog); the US News and World Report cover caper (something out of an Al Gore nightmare); and Gateway Pundit’s tracking of a NYT