Archive for April, 2008

Return to Make Believe
The Salem News has fallen for a beloved old chestnut, the bogus Ronald Reagan diary item about George W. Bush, Ner’ do well.
Good going, suckers!

The Other
The militant halfwits of Fox & Friends are storied in legend and song for promoting crackpot stories of madrassa raised Barack Obama and other smears.
But what if all they are is dim?
Evidence for the affirmative: Fox & Friends confusing abolitionist Frederick Douglas […]

“We will take your concept, idol or mentor and create a mammoth statue out of it.”
The Dream
…And The Ditch
The vision is taking hold at the Venice of Houston.
Historic Real Estate Inc. - so steeped in, um, something, is building the weirdest incarnation yet of one man’s obsession with gigundus […]

Jimmy Carter Explains All
…and continues his Mother’s Day March to the Sea, plugging the book.
Tonight, Carter continues his effort to outrage all of decent society by speaking to Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.

So Close, And Yet…
The intrepid vision questers at Fast Company have encountered a truly lost world, one where a youthful Richard Nixon painted the golden vision of a slacker tomorrow.

“We see the time not too far distant when we can have a four-day work week and family life will […]