I just watched Network, the classic 1976 film. I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: our reality today resembles the satire of the past to an alarming degree. Network predicts the blurring of entertainment, opinion and news on television almost perfectly. It’s as though...
Gas Is Too Cheap
posted by Justin Pot
Gas prices are too low. Far, far too low. Within decades we will regret ever charging as little as four dollars a gallon for gas. Divide global oil reserves by global oil consumption and we’ve got 33 years left. Oil is a limited resource, and we’re going to run out of it. That’s not some liberal projection; that’s math. That’s reality. We should be preserving the oil we have for essential things, like farming, and restructuring our communities to reflect the coming post-petroleum era. At the very least we, as a society, need to stop subsidizing fuel prices before our runaway consumption leads to an inevitable...
“The PartyR...
posted by Justin Pot
Americans love conspiracy theories. Even if you know man stepped on the moon and Bush didn’t cause 9/11, there’s something sickly fascinating about speculating that government has something to hide. At the very least, it makes for great fiction. Conspiracy theories, so far as I...
Bush’s “Decision Poi...
posted by Justin Pot
In the week leading up to the release of George W. Bush’s memoir, reviewers chimed in with their opinions, hoping to define what the memoir means to the millions who read reviews instead of books. Some said Bush is as stubborn as ever, insisting that history will show him in a kind light...
5 Articles You Shoul...
posted by Justin Pot
So much of the web is short little snippits, manufactured with keywords in mind to increase a site’s hitcount, so finding quality articles is very relaxing for any blogger. I read some great articles last night so I thought I’d share. One of my favorite pages on the web is...
Wikileaks Is Inevita...
posted by Justin Pot
Complete access to information isn’t always a good thing; just ask Valerie Plame. Many of the same people defending WikiLeak’s latest actions, leaking classified US diplomatic cables, were up in arms during the Plame affair. Which is ironic, when you consider it: wasn’t...
Stewart, Maddow and ...
posted by Justin Pot
During the Rally To Restore Sanity Jon Stewart focused on how America’s media in general, and cable news in particular, exaggerate partisan divides to an absurd degree. “The country’s 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems,” said...