conservatism-in-the-us

The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole machine out there, an organized attempt to accuse them of bias whenever they say anything that the Right doesn't like. So rather than really try to report things objectively, they settle for being even-handed, which is not the same thing. One of my lines in a column__n which a number of people thought I was insulting them personally__as that if Bush said the Earth was flat, the mainstream media would have stories with the headline: 'Shape of Earth__iews Differ.' Then they'd quote some Democrats saying that it was round.

There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

I think that stupidity is like a wild fire burning through the social fabric of an intrinsically reasonable existence.