elfs | Sunday's Brain Is Full of Malice

"Would you rather have the Maliki government in control, or the Iranian-backed special groups in control, or Al Qaeda in control?": Oh, good grief. The quote is from Randy Scheunemann, John McCain's senior foreign policy adviser. The possibility of al-Qaeda ever attaining "control of Iraq" is so vanishingly small that for a "senior foreign policy adviser" to even suggest it shows that he's much more interested in frightening the American people into voting for his candidate than he ever was at telling the truth. But more importantly, let's make this clear: the Maliki goverment is an Iranian-backed special group. They also happen to be our group, too, but their military is still receiving arms and training from Iran. This is why we are currently providing air support for the SCIRI Militia in Basra. You know, SCIRI, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, founded in 1982 to seek the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and based out of Tehran?

Why didn't the Times reporter point this out?
Time Admits Biofuels are "a scam.": The growing backlash against biofuels is a product of the law of unintended consequences. It may seem obvious now that when biofuels increase demand for crops, prices will rise and farms will expand into nature.
"It may seem obvious?" Grief, dudes, it was obvious five years ago! Burning crops means less crops for the rest of us, and the law of supply and demand requires that you either pay more or create new resources, and the only way to create new sources of farm products is to create new farmland. The Earth ain't getting bigger. New farmland requires more resources like fuel and fertilizer and time. We all knew this was going to happen. Why the Hell does Time's Michael Grunwald think we're all so frakking stupid?

Say it with me now, everyone: Why oh why can't we have a better press corp?
The Hillary, Hussein, McCain Axis of Economic Evil: Ilana Mercer's article on World Net is a demonstration of the true and petty banality of small, evil minds. They don't call one of the presidential candidates "Barack," or "Obama," or even "Barack Hussein Obama," they call him "Hussein," period. They assume their audience knows who that is. They want the audience to fear him, to believe he's a muslim, and they'll push that fnord over and over until the label's worn off the button. Worldnut. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany: we must point and giggle.