I’d point out that, according to the hospital spokesman and doctor at this morning’s, press conference, this was an asymptomatic (silent) heart attack caused by a piece of birdshot that migrated either through the bloodstream or managed to get through a shallow portion of the chest cavity and caused an inflammation around the heart—and that complications (like infection), though a possiblity, are treatable—but why bother? Because now the media has

“No one can tell me America doesn’t deserve a national food patty!  And from where I’m standing, I can see absolutely no reason why the falafel—not the ecologically destructive hamburger – shouldn’t receive that honor, as a show of international friendship.” “Sure, visually, Lawrence of Arabia is a great film.  But let’s face it:  from a narrative perspective, the last thing the Arabs needed was some presumptuous white man riding

Courtesy of Terry Hastings, this piece from Roger Aronoff, who in his Feb 10 Media Monitor column discusses the Democrat push to bring back the old FCC Fairness Doctrine, provides a nice gloss on my post earlier today on the declining standards of avowed objectivity in American media: George Clooney has talked about returning to the days when everyone had the same “fact level.” By that, he means he wants

From Reuters: Secretary-General Kofi Annan intends to ask President George W. Bush on Monday what the United States can contribute to a mobile UN force to stop the killings, rape and pillaging in Sudan’s Darfur region. The United States has offered military planners for the Darfur operation, which will arrive on Monday. But it has made no offer of air coverage or other assistance for the venture, expected to be

From the AP / Breitbart: Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed “terrible abuses” against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment. Gore said Arabs had been “indiscriminately rounded up” and held in “unforgivable” conditions. The former vice president said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaida’s hands by routinely blocking

Among the Washington Press corps today, talk is centering nearly exclusively on the “timing” of the information flow that followed Vice President Dick Cheney’s non-lethal Saturday hunting accident (the VP sprayed birdshot into one of his party)—watching the White House press briefing right now, I find myself mesmerized by the interest reporters are showing in this story, from the tenacity of their questioning of Scott Mcclellan to their desire to

     So Descartes walks into a laundromat with a load of soiled linen (bedding, some whites), whereupon he is approached almost immediately by a beautiful, doe-eyed young woman who explains to him that the change machine is busted.  “You wouldn’t happen to have any spare quarters you could part with, would you?” she asks, lowering her eyes and offering up a shy smile.  “I have bills.”      To which Descartes, a bit

From John Hood, writing on the FCC vs. product placement in the March Reason: When Peter Parker shot out his webbing and snagged that can of Dr. Pepper in Spider-Man, its seems that impressionable movie audiences across the country suffered deleterious consequences—perhaps in the form of forgetting how much they loved Mr Pibb.  “The public needs to know when they’re being advertised to,” says Jonathan Adelstein, one of the five

1.  a naked “escort”, whose exuberance for Special K left her in a deep dark place from which neither a series of cold compresses nor two shots of adrenaline were able to successfully retrieve her. 2.  a “virtual” hotel registration card, containing a license plate number and name (both real and both duly registered with the Colorado MVA). 3.  a dead hotel night clerk named “Edward” who was strangled with