Ned: “You mean, like an angel?!” Lisa: “Well, obviously that’s impossib—” Moe: “Lisa’s right, it’s an angel!” For a far more trenchant and insightful version of everything I’m about to say. It’s not the exact same product/commercial, but the major principles are entirely the same. According to the refuse aggregate that is FB’s trending topics,…
Category: Media
The Great Wall of Scott Walker
Came across this article. Did a Google search. Came across 5 others just like it real quick (see comments). What’s the impression you walk away with? “Scott Walker wants to build a wall on the Canadian border, and if he’s elected, he plans on doing it, the madman!” That’s what they’re going for. If you…
SciAm Goes Full Buzzfeed
Part 1: Fisking View post on imgur.com http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/men-are-attracted-to-nonconformist-women/ This article is stupid for like 10 different reasons. “Men are often advised to stand out from the crowd to attract women—there can be only one alpha male.” Somebody watched Highlander recently. There can be only one alpha-male? Sure. Okay. “Women, on the other hand, are told…
Reality TV Star Makes “Graphic Anti-Atheist” Comments, Misunderstood by Media, Atheists
This is going to be less about religion than I’m probably leading you to believe. A Christian (you know the one I’m talking about, don’t make this trend any more than it is, please) who is only being given media attention because he had a TV show (i.e. media attention) is being given more media…
Commentary on: 15 Facts About Sea Level Rise That Should Scare the S^*# Out of You
More in my series of “Shit like this is why I am sympathetic to climate change skeptics” and “maybe the 1st Amendment should not apply to journalists”. Bullshit clickbait is bullshit clickbait, not a productive discussion on science and science policy. Holy shit, how is anyone at CNN okay with this title? This is just…