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Boortz’s Choice

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Well the argument has now surpassed farce and entered a realm so surreal we’ll need poets to make sense of it all for us. In a nation built on two important premises—1) that all people are created equal and 2) that all people share the inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness—it’s now become acceptable to say that our government (one of, for, and by these same equal people) should give advance warning of a terrorist strike to our wealthy citizens before our other citizens. Wealth is now openly discussed as a justifiable criteria for putting citizens at head of the queue for the lifeboats. Wealth alone.

This my friends is FUBAR.

Media Matters reprints the text of a program by right-wing radio host Neal Boortz. Here is the bulk of it:

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Yo, W! Who’s Your Daddy?

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Apparently, George W. Bush suffers from the incurable delusion that the choice of who to nominate for the SCOTUS vacancy was his to make. The fact that it’s not is creating an ever-expanding crisis in leadership (or at least in the rhetoric machine that W’s been hiding behind). I mean, here I’ve been told on … Read more

Shhh…No One Knows I’m Blogging

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You have to read this awesome publication (pdf file) put out by Reporters Without Borders helping folks set up anonymous weblogs and avoid censors in places where blogging can be dangerous to one’s employment or even health. There’s lots of info about how or why to blog, but a chapter titled "HOW TO BLOG ANONYMOUSLY" by Ethan Zuckerman (fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School), outlines the following 6 steps:

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BFF

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Via Sullivan Accepting their explanation at face value, it’s still difficult to conclude the accidental labeling of a student in her high school yearbook as simply "Black Girl" doesn’t reveal a latent racism on the part of the yearbook staff: A Texas school district has apologized to a student identified only as "Black Girl" in … Read more