The actual meat of this post is worth pondering, but I was mostly drawn to the short
taxonomy of pundit bloggers it posits.
Choir
Preachers, Shepherds, Thinkers, and Dirty Tricks:
Black Ops in the Blogoshere
In his recent Weekly Standard column, Hugh Hewitt presents an intriguing question:
“Blogs are popular and influential, but could they be used for political dirty tricks?
Or worse?”
To me, this blog makes about as much sense as “Vegetarians for Meat” would.
These folks say Bush “betrays fundamental conservative principles”. While
I’m certainly no fan of Bush, I’m wondering how the heck John “My faith doesn’t
affect my politics” Kerry doesn’t betray conservative principles, supposing
he even cared to be identified as anything but the poster child for liberalism.
Conservatives have historically stood as guardians of America’s moral heritage,
civic standards and national resources. Recently, however, this proud tradition
has been sullied by an administration that uses the word “conservative”
but betrays fundamental conservative principles. We have concluded that John Kerry
is our best hope for the reinvigoration of our national pride, security and prosperity.
This is really one of those “truth is stranger than fiction” type stories.
At first glance, it looks like a product of The
Onion. On a side note, I had no idea the Washington Times is owned by Rev. Sun
Myung Moon. Weird.
Congressmen Crown the “King of Peace”
A religious leader, an ex-convict and multibillionaire who claims he’s the messiah,
receives a coronation ceremony in a US Senate office building where he is crowned
by a Democratic congressman. The plot of another lame rightwing apocalyptic novel,
right?
I’m all about non-lethal weaponry. I think the human rights groups that worry about
new methods of torture are too focused on delivery methods and not addressing the
deliverers. Those depraved enough to torture someone will do so with whatever means
they have at their disposal. Just because a new weapon might be used in torture,
doesn’t mean it is objectively a weapon of torture. Non-lethal weaponry has
done and will do a great deal of good that I feel outweighs real and potential abuses.
Sweeping
stun guns to target crowds
19:00 16 June 04
Weapons that can incapacitate crowds of people by sweeping a lightning-like beam
of electricity across them are being readied for sale to military and police forces
in the US and Europe.
What in the world is wrong with these people?!? Will they ever get over their
voting problems?
Fla.
Voting Machines Have Recount Flaw
Sun Jun 13, 4:16 PM ET
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Touchscreen voting machines in 11 counties have a software flaw
that could make manual recounts impossible in November’s presidential election,
state officials said.