Archive for the &;political-correctness&; Category
Somewhere, Osama Bin Ladin is Laughing His AssOff
November 20, 2010
For years, the idea of &;flying naked&; to show security folks you weren&;t a terrorist was a joke. It&;s not a joke anymore, as the TSA (and more importantly, the political powers above them) feels justified in invasive search, groping and near-sexual assault to &;prove&; passengers aren&;t carrying bombs stuffed up their body cavities.
I&;m no Sarah Palin fan, but this tweet &;TSA: it’s politically incorrect 2 “profile” anyone when natl second is issue?We profile individuals/suspects in other situations!Profile away&; actually seems right on.
Asking people questions and watching their reactions seems much more sensible (and works for the Israelis) rather than what Bruce Schneir calls &;security theatre.&;
Tags:political-correctness, security, terrorism Posted in political-correctness, Politics, technology, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment &;
Why Bill Clinton and Tiger Woods ShouldGolf
December 17, 2009
Bill can take pointers from Tiger on upping his score.
Perhaps Newt Gingrich and Silvio Berlusconi can join them for a foursome. No cheating&;on the course.
Although with Susan MacDougal apparently joining Monica Lewinsky and Gennifer Flowers, with allegations by Paula Jones, the President is proving quite the player himself.
Tags:Berlusconi, Bill-Clinton, Monica-Lewinsky, Newt-Gingrich, Susan-MacDougal, Tiger-Woods Posted in 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, political-correctness, Politics, Sex and Society, tabloid-journalism, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment &;
Ruth Seymour Retiring fromKCRW
November 18, 2009
The ageless doyenne of ever politically-correct KCRW-FM is stepping down. (Even the LA Times can&;t find or won&;t dare print her age.)
And somewhere Sandra Tsing Loh is singing &;Ding dong the witch is dead.&;
Tags:KCRW.ORG, Ruth-Seymour, Sandra-Tsing-Lo Posted in KCRW-FM, political-correctness | Leave a Comment &;
ContrabandLightbulbs
July 20, 2009
I went to my local dealer and picked up 24 contraband 85 and 100 watt floods today. The man had what I needed in the back; a few precious boxes of incandescent bulbs manufactured more than a year ago, before Philips and the rest stopped making them in a paroxysm of political (and ecological) correctness.
The CFL and halogen &;long life&; floods I&;ve purchased at Costco have offered neither savings or long life, usually dying in my down cans within four months. They do deliver the cold dim light that smacks of diminished expectations, of Jimmy Carter and &;freezing in the dark.&; Ask not for whom the fluorescents hum, they hum for thee.
So I&;m hoarding. I got your incandescent floods right here.
Tags:compact-fluorescent, freezing-in-the-dark, incandescent, political-correctness Posted in going-green, political-correctness | Leave a Comment &;
Mistakes of the LiberalMedia
December 11, 2008
Yes, we know things are very bad now in the media; today&;s Mediabistro bucket of cheer talks of layoffs at Newsweek, NPR and the death of local newspapers.
But that&;s no excuse for making ridiculous, egregious errors like mispelling &;Montecito&; or inventing a new car, the &;Ford Malibu.&; But those are innocent mistakes compared to not checking the background of spokespeople before they&;re interviewed, or bowing to political correctness.
Today, NPR&;s Marketplace had a long interview with Henry Blodget about whether he saw this &;bubble&; coming. Yes, the same Henry Blodget who was fined $4 million and banned for life from the securities industry is now a respectable commentator, like notorious anti-Semite Amiri Baraka this summer.
But when a host of a KCRW-FM show dares to compare firing someone for donating money to an anti-gay marriage cause to the Blacklist, he&;s slapped down by the station manager.
Tags:Amiri-Baraka, death-of-journalism, Henry-Blodget, KCRW.ORG Posted in Journalism, political-correctness | Leave a Comment &;
Ruth Seymour&;s KCRW: The State isMoi
December 10, 2008
Few general managers are as closely associated with a public radio station, for better or worse, than Ruth Seymour with KCRW-FM, beginning her tenure in 1978. So it&;s not surprising that the 70+ aging lioness (or dragon lady, as many would have it) in winter still believes as King Louis XIV of France believed &;L&;Etat, C&;Est Moi (The State, That&;s Me)
At KCRW, no one is bigger than the station, except Seymour, as acclaimed writer/performer Sandra Tsing Loh discovered a few years ago. The latest to feel her wrath, perhaps stirred by various KCRW constituencies, is Claude Brodesser-Aker, who decried the forced resignation of Rich Raddon from the LA Film Festival for his donation to &;Yes on 8&;, the proposition which actually said no to gay marriage. Seymour, who is certainly old enough to remember the Hollywood Blacklist, said the
&;The Business compared his resignation to the Hollywood Blacklist days when members of the film industry lost their jobs because of alleged Communist sympathies. The actors, directors, writers and producers who were targeted in the Blacklist never resigned their positions. KCRW regrets airing this out-of-the-blue opinion and has made it clear to those involved that it is unacceptable.&;
But Seymour-as-KCRW is often curiously silent when other &;mistakes are made&; on the station&;s airtime. In June, I wrote and blogged about another KCRW program giving airtime to one of America&;s most notorious anti-semites.
Queen Ruth never responded.
Tags:KCRW.ORG, Ruth-Seymour Posted in political-correctness | 3 Comments &;
Hilary Clinton and the RollingStones
September 12, 2008
In &;Shine a Light&;, the new Rolling Stones concert film directed by Martin Scorsese, now on DVD, Bill and Hilary Clinton make brief on-stage appearances (it&;s billed as a benefit for the Clinton Foundation.)
That got me thinking. What&;s Hilary Clinton&;s favorite Rolling Stones song?
&;Honky Tonk Women&;?
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Tags:Bill-Clinton, Hilary-Clinton, Martin-Scorsese, Rolling-Stones, Shine-A-Light Posted in Hollywood Follies, Music, political-correctness, Politics | 3 Comments &;
KCRW Invites Anti-Semite to ObamaDiscussion
July 11, 2008
On July 11&;s &;Which Way LA?&; host Warren Olney invited Amiri Baraka as one of the talking heads to comment on Jesse Jackson&;s &;cut his nuts off&; comments about Barack Obama.
Olney identified Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones) as a &;poet and playwright.&; He failed to identify Baraka as one of America&;s most outspoken anti-Semites who in fact lost his title as Poet Laureate of New Jersey over his poem which claimed Jews were warned about the attack on the World Trade Center.
The irony of such a man being invited being invited to comment on the odious comments of Jackson, another anti-Semite boggles the mind&;and unfortunately fuels the suspicions of what many think is the &;liberal media.&;
Tags:Amiri-Baraka, anti-semitism, Barack-Obama, Jesse-Jackson, KCRW.ORG, Warren-Olney Posted in KCRW-FM, political-correctness, Radio | 6 Comments &;
Political Correctness: Picasso Locked in theBasement
September 19, 2007
One of the world&;s greatest collections of modern art is locked in the basement of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran. And it&;s not &;just the Picassos &; the Kandinskys, the Miros, the Warhols. The Monet, the Pissarro, the Toulouse-Lautrec, the Van Gogh. Possibly the best Jackson Pollock outside the U.S.&;
The art has been locked up almost 30 years, as the mullahs who run Iran don&;t want the people to see such &;degenerate&; art&;too dangerous and corrupting. It&;s yet another point of agreement for them with Hitler, apparently.
The good news is that the Iranians haven&;t (yet) destroyed the art as the Taliban did the historic Buddha statues of Afghanistan; probably too valuable.
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Innocent HummerAssaulted
July 18, 2007
I don&;t like Hummers. They&;re ugly and kind of road hogs. But I like this even less.
Perhaps the pundits are right; civil discourse is fraying in this country. The last time I looked, in America you could drive any car you dreamed of that was street legal and you could afford gas for.
But if you really can&;t contain your righteous opinion, rant about SUVs on your blog, buy something small and Japanese so you&;ll feel good about yourself (if not your fellow American workers), or, if you must, stick a note under a Suburban&;s windshield like the irrepressible Amy Alkon. Don&;t mess with people&;s hard-earned property.
Hybrid technology is promising, and maybe I&;ll get a Ford Escape for my next car. Now, I drive an 8-cylinder Mustang GT. And if I catch someone vandalizing it I will vandalize them.
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