March 2012
4 posts
Mike Daisey Is a Liar, and So Am I →
I’ve been trying to find the best story on the whole Daisey, This American Life, Apple, Foxconn debacle. I think this one takes the cake.
The thing is, that these lies, these distortions, these fabrications, these untruths don’t make for a better story. They make for an easier one, a story with fewer thorns to swallow on the way down, a less complicated story.
Maybe I’m just suspicious...
the-o-dot: Big Box Mall Welcomes New... →
People ask me why I don’t move to Kanata. This is exhibit #1, a parody that is uncomfortably close to the truth
Andrew Breitbart, 1969-2012—David Frum - The Daily... →
Many of our most important public figures have gained their influence and power by inciting and exploiting the ugliest of passions—by manipulating fears and prejudices—by serving up falsehoods as reported truth. In time these figures will one by one die. What are we to say of this cohort, this group, this generation? That their mothers loved them? That their families are bereaved? That their...
