Brain: Testosterony, The San Francisco Treat!

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The Bush Administration's Coordination of Analysts Is Probably Illegal

It is illegal in the United States for the administration or congress to engage in "covert attempts to mold opinion through the undisclosed use of third parties." That's exactly what Rumsfeld's analyst channel did.

It is not the "what an analyst did" issue that bothered me. It is the covert mechanisms by which the Bush Administration attempted to fill the news cycle with its own voices, behind the cover of public ignorance, to mold opinion.

It's not about being an analyst. It's about the attempt to use multiple individuals, each with apparent rank and distinction, and place them into the news stream in a psychological warfare operation against the American People. You and I were treated by the Pentagon not as informed citizens but as potentially unruly subjects. That offends me no end. Dammit, why aren't these people in jail? (via solarbird)

The Militarist

Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain may protest that he hates war, but no American leader has promoted it more avidly. McCain is not only the most hawkish neocon on the horizon; he genuinely sees war as America's most ennobling enterprise. (via Brad DeLong)

Darwinists Hysterical Over "Expelled."

Worldnet allows Phyllis Schafly to go over the top (of what? I've always wondered) in an article in which she lies about l'affairs Richard Sternberg and Caroline Crocker, twists Michael Shermer's words to imply that there's something more to Expelled than demagoguery, and continues the blood libel of modern civilization.