We all know Hanlon's razor, right?

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

In many cases, that's a good philosophy to live by. However, when it comes to Donald Trump and his administration (as well as those currently leading Congress who back him), I believe that the inverse can and perhaps should be applied ( Read more... )

Yes, this is indeed a thing that happened on Christmas Day. You cannot make this shit up.

Breitbart, an "alt-right" source of "news" which makes even Faux Noise seem legit by comparison, calls it "fake news," because of course it does.

In any case, it's actually somewhat refreshing to see an actual, relatively subtle dogwhistle again. It was ( Read more... )

Basically, Bill O'Reilly is trying to excuse and mitigate slavery. Simply because Michelle Obama mentioned it in her speech to the DNC.

That is all. I can't make much more of this that will somehow make it seem stupider than it already is. This is already at the zenith of asininity. Or should that be nadir?

Of course he did.

Of. Fucking. Course. He. Did. I wouldn't have expected anything less, up to and including the completely non sequitur nature of his response.

In any case, it doesn't make Jon Stewart any less absolutely right, though, and it doesn't make Sean Hannity any less of the fucking blithering moron he's always been, obviously.

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Man, fuck Faux Noise.

Just... no, seriously, fuck FOX News, as well as anyone and everyone who takes it even remotely seriously as anything more than the abject travesty of a "news" source that it is.

Nice.

(EDIT) The Republicans, Big Cable™, and Faux Noise blowhards are super buttmad over this. Because of course they are. Somehow, according to the ludicrous moon logic in which they believe, Net Neutrality threatens "freedom of expression." What. (/EDIT)

I've been kind of sort of half-assedly following the brouhaha being talked about in this post, over on Twitter and Facebook (and even, occasionally, Tumblr, which is how I found, via a repost of that Tumblr page on FB, that post from Mr. Wheaton's website), so I thought I'd post a link to it here, because I found it interesting. From that, among ( Read more... )

One of the less great things about moving back to North Carolina from Washington is that reading the local newspaper, in particular the editorials and opinions section, is usually about as useful as poisoning one's mind by watching Faux Noise regularly. Yes, it really is that bad, usually.[1 ( Read more... )

Kotaku link.I'm not always a big fan of Nancy Pelosi, generally speaking, but she had our (gamers') back this time. Despite the headline, however, she actually didn't explicitly say that "they're not the cause of violence." She just pointed to Japan and its low gun crime rates as a counterexample, and then said, generally, that the possible link ( Read more... )