Manufacturing its own truth

Politifact is a grade A piece of shit for national "fact checking" (or whatever the fuck they think they are doing). I am guessing the editor wants to go to more Georgetown cocktail parties. Or perhaps he wants to appear on the grinning moron's Sunday morning talking points-off! Weigel with the takedown. http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/12/22/politifact_weirdly_unable_to_discuss_facts.html

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Newt Gingrich, Ahistoircal Professor of PseudoHistory

There is so much wrong with this man, why does he have to denigrate Historians with garbage, bombastic, ahistorical garbage? Go read: http://budiansky.blogspot.com/2011/12/you-can-be-historian-too.html

The sheer ego to claim the mantle of a Historian, and profess to love the country as much as he does, it is mind-numbing how fucking wrong he is about basic facts. It shouldn't surprise me, but it does.

Google disturbing the peace

Well, I used to keep my thoughts pleasantly unorganized in my Buzz feed. Google labs in all their wisdom decided to rock that baby to sleep and then smother it with a pillow. I know their motto is "Do no evil," but perhaps they should change that to "Do no stupid" aft all their recent missteps.

I will get around to reposting my old buzz entries here, so they don't permanently descend to the mucky depths of the memory hole.

Oh well, that means back to the blog I know no one really reads. Perhaps I will use the extra room the blog provides to ruminate on things. Perhaps...