Borepatch

Farewell to the Washington Post.  Journalists never cared when mills across the land shut down and people and towns were wiped out; now it...

We are swimming in reports of how badly the Republicans are going to do in next year's election (no links because I'm lazy but these...

The Civil War was not fought over slavery.  This is trivial to demonstrate. Consider the Corwin Amendment : The   Corwin Amendment   is a pr...

When we point out that things aren't as hot as expected (predictions of 5 or more degrees increase being more like half a degree), we ar...

While the media try to pin hurricane deaths on Gov. DeSantis, here's what they are not telling you : Linemen have reportedly restored p...

The Press is falling over themselves to talk about what a guy he was, and how the Soviet system was (in the WaPo's term) "a seven-d...

Chris Lynch has an interesting post up about the mental health benefits of quitting the news - ignoring the feeds rather than obsessing on t...

So the Highland Park shooter recorded rap songs about doing a mass shooting.  Gosh, why would he rap about that?  Could it be all the media ...

AWA over at Gunfreezone posts about a new study showing that increased Concealed Weapon permitting leads to increased gun crime: Concealed-...

Electronic communications rely on the concept of a Carrier Wave .  Basically, this is a well-defined electronic signal that all devices can ...

Pretty much everyone is mocking Taylor Lorenz' WaPo article about how EVIL conservatives scuppered the new Ministry of Truth. You rememb...

Brother Dwight emails to point out this example of how there's one set of rules for us, and a different one for those in Police uniform...

Francis Porretto thinks that we are entering the Golden Age of conspiracy theories and that it's all the Media's fault : Now, whatev...

There is a *ton* of propaganda about what's happening in Ukraine right now, maybe 80% of it from the Ukranian side.  This makes it hard ...

So says The World Bank : Using polling data for 31,869 households in 38 countries and allowing for country effects, Easterly and Fischer sho...

A fish doesn't notice the water it swims in.  The Western populations swim in a sea of State sponsored propaganda.  Perceptions are care...

There's a lot of news coming from Ukraine right now.  I'm not sure what is fact and what is propaganda.  It looks like Ukraine is wi...

History repeats itself: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. - Friedrich Engels The airwaves are filled with huffing and puffing ...

They just make stuff up : From   "The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Leaf Blowers"   (NYT).   And there's this: "h...

Seriously .  Quite frankly, I didn't expect that. Maybe smoking is healthy after all ... UPDATE 5 August 2021 14:49:   It seems that B...