Hooray for Jon Stewart

See, it's books like this damn "Natural cures that THEY don't want you to know" ("THEY"? Who the fuck is "THEY?") that make me want to re-shelve half of "non-fiction" under fiction. Well, these and the hack hatchet job political bullshit things like the "fair tax plan" book. But luckily for us, Jon Stewart is on the case, as seen here.

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A pondering

They stretch along the river, worn relics of another time. Once proud factories, reduced to hollow shells suitable only for supervillain hideouts. The abandoned propaganda mills of the Northeast, whose ancient machines sit rusting, home only to spiders and squirrels. In days gone by, their mighty engines produced high-quality disinformation for the whole world, distilled from only the finest imported implications. But time and progress left them behind. The first blow was the invention of artificial propaganda in the wake of World War II. The final nail in their coffin was the Internet, and the increasing personalization of propaganda.

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In Which I am Again Late for an Internet Trend

I watched the Global Frequency Demo (the word is pilot, ferret, pilot) finally, and it is quite good. Smart, plausible, comic book action, converted from the comic series of the same name by Warren Ellis. No wonder the network executives didn't pick it up.