There seems to be something in the water my favorite bloggers are drinking lately. There’s been a widespread outbreak of over-the-top alarmism, hyperbole, and exaggeration to such an extent that I’m shaking my head more and more as I scan the headlines in SharpReader for the latest postings.
Lots of people are going nuts over [...]
Mike Sanders makes an interesting observation on the Echo Chamber question:
It seems to me that an Echo Chamber is a group that ignores other opinions to their own detriment. I keep on thinking that David’s defense of the EC is rooted in an idea from Arnold Kling’s Downfall of the Annointed post in which he [...]
Local burger chain Burgerville is switching to hippie meat:
In its ongoing commitment to using the highest quality ingredients available from the Northwest, Burgerville met with Oregon Country Beef four years ago about becoming its beef supplier. At the time, the small co-op of family ranches was unable to meet the volume required by the 39-unit [...]
There’s an old Usenet saying that when you throw a rock into a pack of dogs you can tell which one you hit because he yelps the loudest. Dave Weinberger is yelping pretty loud about the echo chamber discussion Dave Winer wants to hold at this year’s BloggerCon.
Weinberger makes two contradictory arguments, first that [...]
The UK Sunday Express reported yesterday that coalition forces have got Osama and his bestest buddies boxed in on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border, and his capture is nigh. Pakistan offers the kind of denials that go along with an ongoing military or police operation that’s close to completion:
When asked if 8,000 para-military troops were being sent [...]
Gun rights guy David Codrea wrote a hilarious letter to Frisco’s mayor and chief of police, and to the judge who’s allowed the city to go on isuing gay marriage licenses, urging support for his lifestyle:
I am a gun owner and I live a gun owner life style.
I don’t know if I was born [...]
Sony Corp’s reorganizing, first making major layoffs:
In October, for example, Sony Corp. said it would cut 20,000 jobs over the next three years, including 7,000 in Japan. The company’s goal is to trim $3 billion annually from its operating cost and elevate its profit margin from 4 percent today to 10 percent by 2006.
…and then [...]
It turns out that Frisco mayor Gavin Newsom was way out of line in taking it on himself to declare Sec. 300 of the Family Code unconstitutional and issue non-standard marriage licenses to gay couples. The DHS is not accepting them, so these “marriages” will not be registered and none of the couples will get [...]
A kid in LA goes ego-surfing and finds a rude surprise, but not as rude as the one his momma gets:
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Authorities arrested the mother of a 17-year-old boy who saw his picture on a missing children’s Web site and discovered that he was allegedly abducted from Canada 14 years ago. [...]
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