This is why people who are convinced there is no such thing as media bias…

…are wrong. Being biased doesn’t only mean purposefully treating one side differently than the other. Unconscious bias is just as unfair and infinitely more common.

10 Questions a Pro-Choice Candidate Is Never Asked by the Media – Trevin Wax.

6 comments November 2nd, 2012

I’d prefer he surrendered his freedom

Pediatrician in Boy Scout molestation case surrenders medical license.

Add comment October 30th, 2012

So what law would have stopped him?

The man who shot his wife and six others on Sunday didn’t care that he was under a restraining order to stay away from his wife. He just ignored it.

He didn’t care that the restraining order prohibited him from having weapons. He ignored that, too.

And, now, it turns out he ignored one more law, as well:

Just another sign that signs don’t stop bullets.

20 comments October 22nd, 2012

Considering how rarely I’ve been blogging lately

These guys must be working really hard to find posts of mine to include in Monday’s Random Quotes.

Thanks, guys.

1 comment October 22nd, 2012

I wish I’d said this

Newsweek had a choice between being profitable and being liberal, and they chose liberal.

via Newsweek To Start Pining for the Fjords « Lawrence Person’s BattleSwarm Blog.

I was a Newsweek subscriber on and off for at least twenty years, until they started to devote entire issues to attacking George W. Bush. It only got worse from there. God help me, but I take great pleasure in their demise.

2 comments October 19th, 2012

I thought having the election this year would give me plenty to blog about

But it actually sapped not only my will to blog, but much of my will to live.

1 comment October 17th, 2012

I really, really, really need to learn…

…to stop belittling things by calling them “girly.”

3 comments October 17th, 2012

Linked to for truth

View From The Porch: Re: Communism v. Capitalism.

6 comments October 12th, 2012

I think the real question…

…is “why were these women marrying gay men?”

24 Grooms Blown Away By Their Beautiful Brides.

9 comments October 8th, 2012

Surrrrrrrrrrrrre it is

Wow, how lucky is that? After three and a half years the unemployment rate magically drops below 8% just in time for the election.

Man, coincidences are amazing.

22 comments October 5th, 2012

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