Category Archives: Politics

You can not parody these people

By Brian Hurt | Published: February 20, 2010

So the right’s newest hero? Someone who flew a plane into a building. Apparently this is only a bad thing if you’re brown.

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Rats leaving the sinking ship

By Brian Hurt | Published: December 12, 2009

So, there has started to be a mini-trend of notable conservative bloggers suddenly discovering, to their shock and amazement, that Conservatism today is racist, homophobic, misogynistic, global-warming denying, irrational, anti-science, and hateful. Here’s Andrew Sullivan’s GBCW letter, and here’s from from Charles Johnson at LGF. I especially like the one from Little Green Footballs, because [...]

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TSA should be renamed CYA

By Brian Hurt | Published: October 27, 2009

or maybe TFC: Totally Effin’ Clueless. So, I’m reading the TSA’s response to the recent XKCD, and it managed to do something surprising: lower my estimation of the TSA. See, I used to think the TSA was a bunch of humorless bureaucrats who were doing the whole security-theater drill as a huge CYA. Classic “Yes [...]

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You are not their customer: realities of the media environment

By Brian Hurt | Published: October 4, 2009

So, I wanted to comment on this article about Paul Graham, about the dying of the print media. Unfortunately, his conclusions in the article are worthless because of a fundamental mistake he makes. You see, he assumes that the customers of the media are their readers and/or viewers- that, by buying a New York Times, [...]

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Economic Heresies

By Brian Hurt | Published: September 20, 2009

Right. I’ve gotten ticked off enough it’s time for me to tick other people off. Welcome to a grab-bag of economic truths, at least some of which will tick most people off. Republicans and conservatives should be especially wary. You have been warned. Not only am I not worried about goring your scared cow, I’m [...]

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