On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. — Fight Club Scientists estimate that more than 99% of the species that have ever existed on this planet are now extinct. Some species simply adapted into others. Some were obliterated in mass die-offs. Others could not adapt to changing environments. And [...]

Is there a more prominent, important digital battlefield online than wikipedia? There might be but it’s difficult to think of it. Where else is the common space that is supposed to be a “neutral,” “objective” definition of reality free of left or right-leaning bias? It’s supposed to be Wikipedia but everyone knows that it isn’t. [...]

This popular post was first published on October 12 here. I was so eager to forgive David Frum and return to the status quo we had before he believed Alex Knepper’s lies about us. Politically Frum and NewsReal Blog might have some substantive disagreements but on the key issues of support for Israel and a [...]

Is there a more prominent, important digital battlefield online than wikipedia? There might be but it’s difficult to think of it. Where else is the common space that is supposed to be a “neutral,” “objective” definition of reality free of left or right-leaning bias? It’s supposed to be Wikipedia but everyone knows that it isn’t. [...]

Editor’s Note: Douglas Rushkoff’s book Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age is now available so I’m reprinting my review that was originally published here on September 12. I’ve also embedded a new video of Rushkoff discussing the themes of the book. Order the book here. Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands [...]

I was so eager to forgive David Frum and return to the status quo we had before he believed Alex Knepper’s lies about us. Politically Frum and NewsReal Blog might have some substantive disagreements but on the key issues of support for Israel and a hawkish response to Islamofascism he maintained my respect. And so [...]

Hat tip to Powerline Blog The above cartoon was too much for the Washington Post to handle. This is a new low for the so-called “mainstream media.”Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander wrote, Editors at The Post and many other papers pulled the cartoon and replaced it with one that had appeared previously. They were concerned it [...]

This popular post was first published on October 7 here. I’ve been called a McCarthyite an awful lot since abandoning the Noam Chomsky Left. It’s mostly from my friend Pat — a Ralph Nader supporter, Ed Schultz fan, and committed Union man. When he does it I always ask him if he’s ever read a single [...]

If the Left can do anything it can dream. And after eight long years of the “illegitimately-elected,” insanely religious,  Warmonger-In-Chief George W. Bush, the Left was prepared to pour all its dreams into its new champion, and great hope, Barack Obama.  And while many “progressives” still hold on tightly to their utopian visions, others have [...]

I’ve been called a McCarthyite an awful lot since abandoning the Noam Chomsky Left. It’s mostly from my friend Pat — a Ralph Nader supporter, Ed Schultz fan, and committed Union man. When he does it I always ask him if he’s ever read a single book on American communism, Soviet espionage, and the little that [...]