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Old Musical Dogs Learning New Internet Tricks

Shawn Amos | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment


Shawn Amos

This is the Age of the Artist. In a world where equipment, distribution, and Paypal are in the hands of everyone, only talent will matter. The days of the middleman are (almost) over. Viva la revolucion de music.

What If Obama Had Turned Down The Nobel?

Dave Hackel | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media


Dave Hackel

When it was announced that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, he gave the perfect "I'll say it so you don't have to" response. He said that h...

Press Allowed At Glenn Beck's Mount Vernon Key Ceremony [UPDATE]

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media


UPDATE: Press will be allowed to cover the Mount Vernon, Washington event where Glenn Beck will receive a key to the city, after all. The Seattle T...

The Damage that Time has Done

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.22.2009 | Media


Joe The Nerd Ferraro

Time's cover is the beginning of a rehab job for Glenn Beck. The magazine is trying once again to make it okay for people to sponsor this "person".

Time Magazine Gives Glenn Beck a Rave Review

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media


Joseph A. Palermo

David Von Drehle's article is a clinic for journalism students who wish to learn about faux balance, false equivalencies, straw men, and omissions of important facts.

A New Number for a New Era: From 9/11 to 350

Billy Parish | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green


Billy Parish

Until we change our lifestyle, the Earth will remain in the danger zone. There is still time to bring carbon dioxide levels back down, but it's going to take a major transformation in how we think and act.

"Idiot Wind": A Mind-Expanding Playlist for Glenn Beck

David Wild | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media


David Wild

Glenn Beck started out as a Top 40 DJ, so on behalf of all the lefties out there who are busy ruining this great nation, here's my personal playlist for this fallen jockey who just keeps steering to the right.

Cable News Catches the Slime Flu from Talk Radio

Bill Mann | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media


Bill Mann

When CNN's Big Lou Dobbs recently went off the deep end, did he also drain the press (as well as the swimming) pool?

The Meaning of Treason

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 07.29.2009 | Politics


Ariel Gonzalez

I first read Rebecca West's Meaning of Treason in the 1990s. At the time I was more interested in the looping grace of West's sentences than in h...

You Better Sit Down Kids: An Only Mildly Exploitative Playlist for Jon & Kate Plus 8

David Wild | Posted 07.24.2009 | Entertainment


David Wild

When all those overexposed boys and girls turn eighteen, I pledge to burn the following songs and have them airdropped into whatever compound the family is then holed up in.

Glenn Beck Spins the Holocaust Museum Shooting

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media


Joseph A. Palermo

Somewhere behind Beck's talking points there is real thinking going on. No one should dismiss Beck as a hack or "entertainer." He is a propagandist.

Glenn Beck: GOP Should Be Like 'Chunky Chocolate Milk' (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 06.05.2009 | Media


Plenty of conservative pundits have offered unsolicited advice to the Republican Party lately. But on his show Monday, Glenn Beck delivered what migh...

Beck: People 'Pushed To The Wall' By 'Political Correctness' Launch Killing Sprees

Think Progress | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics


On Tuesday, an Alabama man named Michael McLendon killed 10 people in a shooting spree before committing suicide in what has been called "the worst ra...

On the Waning Days of Madmen in the Media

Mike Sheehan | Posted 12.01.2008 | Media


Mike Sheehan

There's been a backlash against Olbermann steadily brewing and it's hard to argue that he hasn't brought it on himself. I'm seeing the complaints piling up in the lefty blogosphere.