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If you're looking for entertainment at Ken Ham's expense, nothing is funnier than the guys that snuck into the opening of his creationism museam from which the regular press was barred by pretending to be from the special times.

Hilariously worth the read if you have a few minutes to spare.

You want to read a hysterical article about that place, check this out.

A guy basically pretended to be mentally handicapped and trolled the fuck out of everyone there, to include Ken Ham, the guy who created the place.

Not a very politically correct article, but fucking awesome anyway...

American newsmen will surely mourn this death. Fossett was one of the kings of the slow news day. We have corruption morphing into theft in our own, wish-powered, Iraq adventure, a prison population exceeding China's, personal and public debt looming disasters and so forth, but none of that is fit to print. Something, then, must fill the gaps between opportunities to feel superior to celebrities and solicitations of illicit, gay sex on Capitol Hill. Fossett seemed to know just when these spaces would open.

Usually he would attempt to be the first man to circumvent the globe in a long obsolete mode of transportation. Each endeavor would receive days of news coverage, although it is difficult to pin down exactly why. At any given time, some imbecile is attempting to ride a Segway up Mount Fuji.

A couple prank journalists made a gonzo expedition to the opening of the Cincinnati Creation Museum in _Let There Be Retards_.

Why is this cocksucker in new SCIENTIST? If this is the way things are going, I want the Mother Fucking OLD SCIENTIST back!

Is it another sign of the decline -faith-based, pseudo-science- under the rule of Caligula Bush?

The Thomas Friedman "worst, most boring kind of middlebrow horseshit" seems to have completely sucked the last gasp of life out of any significant intellectual effort in the public arena.

Bias, Balance, & Bullshit: "Balanced" news is making you stupid by Allan Uthman

Last issue of The BEAST contained our annual "50 Most Loathsome People in America" list, by far our most popular feature. As always, once it hit the internet, it was unstoppable, and still pervades the "blogosphere" as I write this. E-mails are streaming in by the hundreds, and surprisingly enough, most are positive. But, of course, there are a lot of angry messages from conservatives, too, each giving us a piece of their mind, most of whom hardly seem able to spare it.

By far the biggest complaint is that old chestnut, liberal bias. Any list that doesn't include Michael Moore, or Ted Kennedy, or Howard Dean, or Cindy Sheehan, etc., is obviously the product of partisan bias, they say. Of course, it seems kind of stupid to expect some kind of dispassionate ideological "balance" from this tiny biweekly, which is called, after all, The BEAST. But beyond that, the very idea that the list cannot be considered legitimate unless it contains the same number of Democrats as Republicans is just silly, a symptom of what I think is a national neurosis, a logical virus that infests modern political discourse in America. That virus is "balance," or rather, the exaltation of balance, the glorification of balance, to the point that truth itself is subjugated or simply dismissed as unknowable, or nonexistent, or just plain irrelevant.

Syndicated columnist John Leo's most recent piece, which actually cites the Loathsome List (though he calls us a "left blogger"), is a good example. Titled "The Left Now Joins the Right in Attacking Mainstream Media," the column indicates, among other things, that Leo is incredibly out of touch with liberal thinking:

Liberals wage many battles, but have you heard which one is the major struggle now? Brace yourselves: It's the campaign "against the established media and its bizarre relationship with the right wing and the truth." That's from the Daily Kos, a popular liberal blog. No, it's not a satire. Just when conservatives thought they were getting somewhere against the entrenched liberalism of the newsroom culture, it turns out that the newsroom has been reactionary all along. The real lonely insurgents fighting for media balance and truth are liberals. The mind reels.

Droll stuff. Leo imagines that liberal complaints of conservative media bias are a brand new development. He also seems to think the charges are ludicrous. But what is truly ludicrous is the assertion that the mainstream media--of which The BEAST is clearly not a member--leans left. It's obvious, from the speed with which White House scandals drop from the radar, and the lack of outrage over clearly illegal executive policies, that the "MSM" has been much, much softer on this president than the last, considering their respective performances. Contrary to conventional wisdom, congressional corruption is much worse than ever before, but you would hardly know it from the kid-gloved coverage it receives.

It may not be that news sources suffer from a right-wing bias as much as a corporate bias. Relaxed FCC regulations have paved the way for the consolidation of huge media conglomerates--publicly traded juggernauts with a vested interest in the deregulation agenda of the GOP. But the real distinction in my eyes between the bias complaints from the right and from the left is in their very nature. Liberal complaints mainly focus on lies, distortions, and sins of omission, while conservatives complain about "balance." The left wants a press that insists on facts, while the right wants an even presentation of partisan versions of reality. But there aren't just two sides to each issue; sometimes there are many, and sometimes there is only one that rings true.

The balance fallacy is hurting the country. Presenting every issue as a he said/she said dispute, an unending, irresolvable argument, sounds fair, but what happens when one side really is wro

To admit that the draft dodging liberal Republicans have won.....
http://www.buffalobeast.com/99/policestate.htm
or
http://www.alternet.org/story/36553/
Same article just two links to spread the /. affect.

I had the same thought. This is a joke as far as military vehicles are concerned.

It's not a joke, it's just good marketing:

1) All the rich republican assholes driving thier 30gallon/mile SUVS need more oil.

2) Bush has many ties with the oil industry, many of whom are prompting him to leverage Irag out of its oil.

3) Oh ya, Bush wants the american people to say "A-OK George" when he bombs the shit out of Iraq for more oil.

Now that the army's got it's own SUV, America can fuel up right after dust-off. Symbolism at it's finest. Ary Fleisher, Cheney, Rumsfield and friends are having a field day with this one.

sounds like a goose and gander scenario to me

Yes, but be grateful that these little tricks still exist. Otherwise the Rupublicans would start passing laws like these:

*If you vote Democrat you have to pay higher taxes because you want more government.

or

*If you're white and over 40 then you're tax exempt.

or

*Anyone with the last name of Bush gets a lifetime gaurentee of social security benefits.

or

*If your name appears on this list you are gaurenteed a seat at all White House VIP luncheons.