Ed Morrisey argues that one of the reasons the Left is attacking the expression of Christian values in politics is the erosion of their MSM monopoly.
I surmise that the Left has seen its power slipping away, and they’re getting desperate and radical in their attempts to get it back. One pundit said that the illusion that history was on the side of secular socialism has faded in the last twenty-five years, and the emergence of viable media access for conservatives has frustrated their decades-long grip on information dissemination. Whatever the cause, the result has been an open assault on faith, such as that offered by Hedges and the hysterical ranting in the Senate and elsewhere whenever the faithful engage in political debate.
Some of the blogosphere’s leading authors are creating a new advertising resource.
They’re calling it pajamasmedia.com.
The name’s almost as good as pajamapages.com.
Michelle Malkin links to a couple of articles that make the point that even conservative talk radio is suffering at the hands of the bloggers.
I happened by this blog about advertising at about.com and obviously this author is not happy about the new Enormous Omelete Sandwich at Burger King.
BK’s newly launched Enormous Omelet Sandwich will pack on 730 calories and 47 grams of fat. And despite a stomach turn for nutritionists who say eating the sandwich is putting you one step closer to a heart attack, BK says it’s all about choices.
Burger King execs say the sandwich will appeal to “the guy who is a Whopper-head.” Experts in the industry say those “Whopper-heads” are young males 16 to 24 who don’t care about nutrition. Research shows young males tend to eat at fast food restaurants 20 times a month.
Excuse me? But who made you the nutrition police? It is about choice, because I chose to eat that thing just the other day! And without bread, too. Great for the Atkins diet. :-p
I guess this is the idea of the freedom of the media thing, and also the idea that people can disagree with anything in the media as well. 
Have video games ever forced legislation? Increasing awareness back in the mid-90s by parents because of overly-violent games like Mortal Kombat was one of the direct causes of a video game rating system. Now, we may have another case in Illinois thanks to Gov. Rod Blagojevich (Dem.) The game in question is the recently-released crime drama game by Midway, NARC.
Blagojevich called for the state Senate to pass his Safe Games legislation, which the Illinois House approved on a 91-19 vote last week. Passage of the measure would make Illinois the first state to ban sales or rental of such games to people younger than 18, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
“Narc” players take the role of one of two police officers and one of the options allows the game characters to use illegal drugs to change the game performance. It is rated “M” for mature.
The game is being distributed by Chicago-based Midway, which told the newspaper the game is aimed at adults and “it’s up to the parents” to control what their children play.
I find two things interesting about this. If this law is passed, are minors still going to be able to get their hands on it anyway, much like alcohol and cigarettes? Parents do have to put their foot down to keep this out of the house.
And Midway has a history of creating controversy with video games, like the aforementioned Mortal Kombat, and even an arcade game released in December 1988, also called NARC. Your basic violent shoot-’em-up, I’d say. Can’t beat the second level without losing all of my lives, though. :-p
Some Americans no longer must worry about being secretly photographed while taking off their sweaty gym short (eww!) (Who even thinks about that?)Many gyms are banning cellular camera phones in Washington, Maryland and Virginia, according to the Washington Post.
“We haven’t had any problems. People turn their cell phones off or leave them at the front desk,” Jones said.
Phones are banned to prevent problems that could lead to defame while in the gym socks! HMMM….I wonder if I can still have my camera phone in the AC gym…I was planning some good pics…
watch out in the gym!
Ok…I lied. I don’t think Bush is giving them out but for people in D.C. that would be nice! The law says that D.C. residents cannot drive unless they are using a handsfree device. I think that’d be a great law…I could put my makeup on easier while I’m talking and driving. Sometimes I just don’t get the lawmakers. They are playing with tonka toys while they make these laws or maybe its playdough…but they’re obviously distracted.
Does anyone have a hands-free cell phone kit they would like to loan me?
If your cell phone rings the normal, “ring” “ring” you are way out of the loop! In fact, you are ancient history. You are just not cool if you don’t have some snazzy new tone that others can recognize. Allison Hirschlag , a 19-year-old Northwestern University student, says,
“We actually make fun of people who still have the regular ringer on their cells, because when you hear that in a restaurant, 50 people reach for their phones,” Hirschlag said.
I have spent a mini-fortune downloading my personalized tones…but I thinks its worth it. I couldn’t bear getting laughed at because of my ring tone…My how shallow. But I have been sucked in to this trend also. I’m sure you have too!Sales hit $3.5 billion in 2003…WOW!
I love my xanga! A form of blogging, xanga is the latest craze! It’s like an online journal where friends can write about their lives, read about the lives of their friends, and comment! You can get cute layouts and design and even personalize your site to play a particular song. I look foward to writing in my xanga everyday..if only all blogging was so entertaining. So…my point…get a Xanga, you’ll love it!
You gotta give 100% to rock. And even when I don’t…I’m still awesome.
Check out this eccentric blogger…and join the trend!
XANGA ROCKS!
I love it when celebrities voice their opionions…fearlessly, especially on sensitive topics. Maggie Gyllenhaal, who plays in an upcoming movie which is about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, said she feels the United States is paritally to blame.
“Not to have the courage to ask these questions of ourselves is to betray the victims of 9/11.”
This is a big step for an female actress to be so upforth about her political opinions with the media…way to go Maggie!
With the internet popularity growing newspapers audience have become less and less by the years. I know that if I want to find out the news fast I just go online. You can find news much quicker for through the internet instead of flipping through several pages of paper its only a click away.
In 1995-2003, says the World Association of Newspapers, circulation fell by 5% in America, 3% in Europe and 2% in Japan. In the 1960s, four out of five Americans read a paper every day; today only half do so. Philip Meyer, author of “The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age” (University of Missouri Press), says that if the trend continues, the last newspaper reader will recycle his final paper copy in April 2040.
No more newspapers!
In December of 2004, Electronic Arts, probably the biggest sports game maker in the video game business, signed a deal with the National Football League to exclusively make video games with NFL players under the EA Sports franchise. This seems like a very, very good thing, because I can say with personal experience that the EA Madden series of football games are the best football games out there. 
But this $200 million deal might have consequences:
When the EA/NFL/NFL Players deal expires, no company will have renders of the league’s 1,400 players, which would cost millions – and could discourage bidding.
“I’m surprise that the naïveté of the NFL and its players,” said (Michael) Pachter (an analyst. “By giving a five-year license and giving EA an exclusive, they’re going to eliminate all of the competition. So in five years, the license fee is going to be whatever EA decides it wants to pay.”
Will this happen? Only time will tell. In the meantime, enjoy the football games! If you play them, that is
In a world dominated by technology, word on the street is that it is much quicker to type than to talk.
“In English, at least, it’s faster to type than it is to talk,” Rashid said. “We’re not moving to a world where those things go away.”
So, in a world where we spend almost as much time talking as typing, what should we start teaching our babies. I mean, what is this man talking about. I think he’s stupid…it is not faster to type than talk. By the time I have typed this word I have said it already in my head and could have said it aloud too if I wanted. We should like put a keyboard in our babies crib instead of teaching them so say mommy or daddy? SILLY!
No technology will conquer the verbal communication…not for girls anyway!
What’s next? I swear, its amazing the things they come up with these days. The latest amazement…computerized shoes. I don’t even own a laptop yet, much less shoes with a mind of their own. But these babies do have some benefit, along with a hefty price tag of 250 bucks. (Lets hope they don’t get endoresed by any famous athletes or they’ll probally be around 500 bucks.) So…according to some runners, these shoes are worth the buck u shuck…
But this footwear actually does help. Every time the foot swings upward off the ground, the shoes adjust their cushioning to the individual wearer’s running style and pace and to changes in terrain.
I think the three years spent developing these shoes could have been used more usefully…there are like hungry children out there and diseases to cure…
Blogging is something that has recieved a lot of publicity lately, yet it is not really a new thing.
So why are blogs becoming so popular? Of course with anything new they have wide appeal. With the internet being the medium for blogs, common and niche subjects alike, can find their way to the correct audience via search engines, word of mouth, or other market methods.
So whats the deal yo?
In France, Germany, Spain, and other countries in the European Union, it’s legal to copy DVD’S…wouldn’t this be nice if American’s were allowed to copy DVD’s. I mean, practically all of my cds are burned…piracy? No…just smart! The Europeans always figure things out before us!
This ruling means that 80 percent of DVDs now on the French market are equipped with illegal mechanisms,” said Julien Dourgnon, spokesman for consumer advocacy group UFC-Que Choisir, which brought the case.
Online advertising complaints are up according to Advertising Standards Authority. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) revealed in its Annual Report 2004 that complaints about online ads were up from 1,100 in 2003 to 1,265 last year. I personally an in this percentage of people who caused the rise in complaints. I am so annoyed when those pop up ads come up and interrupt my instant message conversation. Anyone with me?
Industry watchers believe the rise in complaints could be a reflection of the booming online ad industry, as more and more brands choose to market their products online.
Heck yes.
On the cover of TIME Magazine, April 25, 2005, right-wing diva Ann Coulter is pictured sitting in a chair but there seems to be something weird going on with her legs and feet.
Drudge says:
The photographer, Platon, appears to have used a wide “Fisheye” lense for the cover snap, stretching Coulter’s legs and feet — while shrinking the rest of her body.
Deliberately making her look weird? I’d say yes. Including that picture of Clinton, I think they wanted him to look weird there too.
During Friday’s CBS Evening News, Bob Schiffer was speaking of a report that Alan Greenspan now predicts a tax increase in order to cut the deficit. And he seemed to be advocating it.
Schieffer brought up how Greenspan “said he now expects that in order to bring the deficit into line the government may have to raise taxes.” In his Face the Nation commentary on Sunday, Schieffer fretted about how in the rush of weekday news, as opposed to slow news weekends, “important developments are all but ignored,” such as one revelation “buried in the back pages of the Washington Post, a story in which Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the runaway federal deficit was getting so bad, he expected taxes would have to be raised to bring it into line.” The Post had “buried” the story, “Greenspan Says He Expects Tax Increases,” by running it across the top of Friday’s “Business” section.
Now why would he want to mention raising taxes like that? The only people I know that want their taxes raised are people who government, and people that believe their taxed money is helping the poor.
And CBS News isn’t biased anymore because Dan Rather is gone from the Evening News? Whatever.
The classic film Godfather has been made into a video game and will be released in the fall. Director of the film, Francis Ford Coppola, wasn’t very pleased with the news.
“I knew nothing about it. They never asked me if I thought it was a good idea,” he told The New York Post. “I had absolutely nothing to do with the game and I disapprove. I think it’s a misuse of film.”
It is an ongoing trend that something successful is copied and repackaged for further financial gain. Coppola’s crusade in trying to keep his name off the project has been met with approval with filmgoers. They too believe the film should not be touched by the video game industry.