I hate the tv

Bullshit. Bullshit! bullshit. This study from the Reason Foundation makes an interesting read for anyone who’s dieing to avoid the obvious facts. There are no numbers produced and no scientific rigor exercised.

So many holes that I won’t even address them, except with this (from this website):

According to the 1999 Reason Foundation Annual Report, top funders include: C. Boyden Gray and David Koch (each individually contributed $25,000 or more in 1999), the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the JM Foundation, Charles G. Koch Foundation, Lilly Endowmet, Scaife Family Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Sunmark Foundation. Corporate Donors in 1999 included: American Farm Bureau Federation, American Forest and Paper Association, American Petroleum Institute, American Plastics Council, ARCO Foundation, BP Amoco, CA Building Industry Association, Chemical Manufacturers Association, Chevron Corporation, Chlorine Chemistry Council, Clorox, Coca-Cola, American and Continental Airlines, Daimler Chrysler Corp, Dow Chemical, Eastman Chemical, Edison Electric Institute, ENRON, Exxon Mobil, FMC Corporation, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Kimberly-Clark, Koch Industries, Koch Materials, Eli Lilly, Microsoft, National Air Transportation Association, National Beer Wholesalers, National Soft Drink Association, Pfizer, Inc, Philip Morris, Procter and Gamble, Shell Oil, Sun America, Union Carbide Corporation, United Airlines, Western States Petroleum, Watson Land Company, Whole Foods Market, Winston and Strawn.

They obviously have an agenda.

I ran into it via this, then this.

Narrated by a Russian tourist in North Korea, this collection of photographs gives a rare look at what would be seen by a tourist to the country.

These are a translation of this page in Russian.
Author/Photographer: Artemii Lebedev
Thanks Militaryphotos.net

When you do a search now for “Sasha Cohen” you get a bunch of results for some girl who aparantly won a gold medal in the 2k6 olympics. The REAL Sasha Cohen, in my opinion, is this guy (interviewed by Robert Siegel on NPR). He brought us Borat, Ali-G, Bruno, and other characters. He rules.