Screw-up at The Atlantic leads to inane corporate memo.

Perhaps you noticed the screw-up : The Atlantic ran an article promoting Scientology — "David Miscavige Leads Scientology to Milestone ...

The use of children in politics — if you find it persuasive, you'd better sharpen up.

Drudge is doing propaganda here: But it's very heavy-handed propaganda deployed to critique propaganda. You won't slip into falling...

"'Candyass Blogger' Update: Free Speech Absolutists Who Banned Mr. Althouse UPDATE: 'These Are Historical Dildos.'"

I wasn't going to wade into the Loomis lunacy, but that headline caught my eye. I won't even try to summarize the post, by Robert ...

"At News Conference, Reporters Skip Past Gun Control and Face Instant Criticism."

The reporters wanted to get back to the fiscal cliff. Is it "unbelievable" and "shameful" that the press corps wanted to...

Gun control and the "common sense" meme.

I got 19,300 results from a Google news search for "common sense" and "Sandy Hook." To be fair, not all of the "com...

"If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain..."

"Do something to make more money yourself — spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working." So says t...

"This will be my last political campaign, no matter what. I've got nothing else to run for."

President Obama, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, yesterday. The "I've got nothing else to run for" is a response to a sad "oh...

"White House Already Denying That Mandate Is A Tax. If you deny that it’s a tax, you admit that it’s unconstitutional...."

Says Instapundit , linking here . I've got to disagree. Under Chief Justice Roberts' opinion, what matters under the constitutional ...

"The Democratic Party has a good story to tell, but they don’t know how to tell it."

Says Robert Redford. Ironically, he is telling the story that Democrats keep telling: that they have a good story to tell, but they don’t k...

Obama’s "doing fine" remark is not just a "gaffe" that will be used against him to "sell" a "story" about him.

Chris Cillizza writes a column titled "Obama’s political gaffe will be fodder in general election." He makes some good points, bu...

"Defeated in Walker recall, Democrats vow to fight on."

At their annual convention. And yet, in the recall, their candidate Tom Barrett, made it his central issue that he would "end the civi...

"A lot of politicians can go negative without losing too much altitude, but President Barack Obama doesn’t seem to be that guy."

Writes Glenn Thrush in Politco: Obama’s sag — and it’s definitely more of a sag than a collapse — is a natural function of reluctant Republi...

"[I]f the court overturns Obamacare 5 to 4, Roberts’s 'stated goal of presiding over a less divisive court will be viewed as an irredeemable failure.'"

"Oh? Viewed by whom?" George Will , pushing back Jeffrey Rosen (the source of the internal quote). In case you're wondering wh...

"Do you agree or disagree with this statement: The most frightening words you could hear are 'I’m from the government and I’m here to help'?"

Goofy poll question requires people to puzzle over whether to take jokey hyperbole literally. But 32% of likely U.S. voters did agree with t...

"NBC 6 Miami... writers are repeating false information from one story to the next, spreading it like a virus."

"Not just one writer, but several. Not just one time, but multiple times. Even after two weeks, and notwithstanding updates to the orig...

"Ludicrous, hysterical, brilliant – the top Republican campaign adverts."

Ana Marie Cox assembles and critiques some fabulous material. I don't have time to watch them all just yet, but I did watch Rick Santor...

Romanticizing suicide. [AND: Murder!]

In the NYT. Expect more propaganda of this kind, my friends, because in the future, it is hoped, you will be your own death panel.

The Most Inappropriate Nausea of the Day.

A writer over at Pajamas Media whose name appears in an unreadable font — Jebuda? Jehuda? — assumes we readers will all want to puke when w...

"Making people care" — Mike Daisey's justification for folding fake drama into a more or less true story.

David Carr analyzes the theater/journalism borderline , looking at Daisey's "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" (the sub...

"Yeah. We have different worldviews on some of these things. I agree with you truth is really important."

Says Mike Daisey to Ira Glass, who responds: "I know but I feel like I have the normal worldview. The normal worldview is somebody sta...