FAIR [sarcasm](Freaky And Intellectually Repellent)[/sarcasm], a left-wing media “Watchdog” group, is positing that NPR is a outlet for right-wing sources.
NPR’s ombudsman vociferously denies that NPR is anything but unbiased, FAIR’s study seems to reinforce the notion that what constitutes the center in American journalism is rapidly becoming an endangered species. For the left, NPR is never quite left enough. For the right of course, NPR remains a paragon of liberal bias.
He also makes a pretty decent point about the orientation of “think tanks”, stating “conservative organizations tend in my experience to be unabashedly open about their ideology. Liberals and liberal organizations are less so, possibly because they are so often put on the defensive by a more aggressive and militant conservatism. I think it would have been slightly more accurate if he’d attributed the secrecy to being out of touch with the public and not wanting to frighten them, but hey, it’s a start.
Looking for a geek project? maybe something to keep you busy for the next week? month? year? or maybe just some inspiration to do something “cool”? The guys at GeekDIY have proects listed from “Build Your Own Mac” to “How to Build a Catapult”.
It’s time to brush up on your Assembly skills and take this tutorial which walks you through the steps of setting up your dev environment and programming your very own Atari 2600 game. O’Reilly is also running an interesting article about the Atari homebrew community with an interview with a number of homebrew authors.
Today’s reason: making bad friends, it’s a lifelong effort.
Remember those pictures of Rummy and SH taken back when W’s daddy was vice-president? Does it really seem that surprising that Rummy made such good friends with Ahmad Chalabi? Making friends with bad company is a recurring long-term theme for this adminstration.
Chalabi was the head of the Iraqi National Congress, a dissident group organized for the purpose of overthrowing the regime of Saddam Hussein. Chalabi was a beloved ally of Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney before they came to power with this administration; Chalabi and his group were the impetus behind the passage of the Iraqi Liberation Act in 1998, legislation advocated loudly by Rumsfeld, Cheney and the neo-conservatives who now occupy this government.
Rumsfeld personally groomed Chalabi to take control of Iraq once Hussein was removed. …
The CIA is in possession today of “rock-solid” evidence that Ahmad Chalabi is an agent of the Iranian government, that he used his position with the Bush administration to push false data upon the gullible hawks in Washington. According to a report by Julian Borger in the UK Guardian, “The CIA has hard evidence that Mr. Chalabi and his intelligence chief, Aras Karim Habib, passed US secrets to Tehran, and that Mr Habib has been a paid Iranian agent for several years, involved in passing intelligence in both directions.”
Aggressively taking sides in the Middle-East is proving to be a poor decision. It only makes us look bad. When will the hawks recognize that pacification is not simply an avoidance of conflict, but a recognition that everyone in the Middle East has dirty hands?
It’s Friday and time for your fort-yearly update on how Tonya Harding’s doing. How is she? She’s great! Her new career in female boxing has given her a new lease on life. She’s wants enough money to retire, “and every once in a while put on a really pretty dress and go to dinner at a place like Applebee’s or something.”
Like Applebee’s. Oh, Tonya.
Specifically crashed
It was bound to happen: Folks have realized that hybrids have big batteries, and that electricity and chemicals can be awful hazardous and unpredictable. I think I touched on this a couple of months ago, but am too lazy to look it up.
As opposed to free software
Pretty decent list here There’s some pretty good suggestions in the comments.