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Led Zeppelin Reunites for Concert

Led Zeppelin, without John Henry Bonham, got together and did a concert in London last night.

Reviews have been pretty positive. I'm sure it was an awesome show.

Josh Poulson

Posted in category “General” Tuesday, Dec 11 2007 06:22 AM | Permalink | No comments | No trackbacks

The Gift For The One Who Prevents You From Doing Everything

From the National Archives, give the gift of authentic red tape:

At last—a government term that means exactly what it says. Official United States documents were once bound with red twill tape that had to be “cut through” to gain access. This encased bit of “red tape” is from Civil War documents found in the records of the Union Army, by volunteers of the Civil War Records Conservation Corp at the National Archives…

(Hat tip to Hit & Run, the Reason magazine blog.)

Josh Poulson

Posted in category “Politics” Sunday, Dec 9 2007 09:01 AM | Permalink | No comments | 1 trackback

The News Should Be the Debate, Not the Forum

Jay Tea of Wizbang! nails it:

But as the old saying goes, “it's not the crime that gets you, it's the cover-up.” By allowing these shills to make it through the screening process, CNN allowed the post-debate coverage to focus on who they were and not what they asked, and made themselves—and their sheer ineptitude, partisan agenda, or both—the center point of the discussion. And whenever the media becomes part of the story, especially to the point of becoming the most important part of the story, then they have betrayed their duty to report the news—not make it.

I have generally been avoiding the debates as I don't really want to know more about any of the candidates fielded by either major party. I have found warts on all of them and I'm just using the process of elimination to make my choice… and they have all done a great job of eliminating themselves. This debate, however, and the “plant” debacle before it, have drawn so much attention away from the candidates and towards the media that I just have to comment on it.

I despise the way political media is handled. It's simply unprofessional, oversimplified, and clearly biased towards the cult of the omnipotent state. I hate it.

There, I said it.

Josh Poulson

Posted in category “Politics” Saturday, Dec 1 2007 08:23 AM | Permalink | No comments | No trackbacks