NPR has been lacking for some time now. I stopped listening to it on the way to work in the morning, and it is amazing how much my mood has improved as a result.

I remember when Jim Webb beat Macaca Allen for the the US Senate seat from Virginia, and the pundits were saying this represented a new direction for the electorate. Webb beat Allen by about 7000 votes - hardly a plurality.

With Franken beating Coleman as he did, the only conclusion one can draw about the electorate is that 50% of them are happy, and 50% are not.

What it really shows, as noted elsewhere on Salon recently (cough NPR cough), is that the media is supposedly showing "both sides" of stories that actually have only one side, to the detriment of the truth.

Using the media's point of view to make up your mind about politics is like using Scientology's point of view to make up your mind about psychiatry.

thanks for publishing it.

Everyone reading the Salon story should also read this story:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/02/AR2009070203365.html

from the Washington Post:

"In response to complaints, the USDA inspector general's office has widened an investigation of whether products carrying the (organic) label meet national standards. The probe is also looking into the department's oversight of private certifiers who are hired by farmers and food producers and inspect products to determine whether they can use the label.

corporate firepower has added to pressure on the government to expand the definition of what is organic, in part because processed foods offered by big industry often require ingredients, additives or processing agents that either do not exist in organic form or are not available in large enough quantities for mass production.

Under the original organics law, 5 percent of a USDA-certified organic product can consist of non-organic substances, provided they are approved by the National Organic Standards Board. That list has grown from 77 to 245 substances since it was created in 2002. Companies must appeal to the board every five years to keep a substance on the list, explaining why an organic alternative has not been found. The goal was to shrink the list over time, but only one item has been removed so far.

The original law's mandate for annual pesticide testing was also never implemented -- the agency left that optional."

so even if she committed crimes in 2002, she's off the hook...

that should put the final nail in the coffin of the Republican party...

two useless columns in Salon: Wingnut and Paglia - but they do generate click-throughs...

you are thinking of Tom Tomorrow, not Tom The Dancing Bug...

As for me, we do have coyotes eating house pets here in Denver, and lynch mobs looking to shoot them....

There's a sucker born every minute, and anyone who honestly believes that she could be president is beyond redemption.

The next-gen neocons love the idea of President Palin, because they think they could manipulate her like Cheney manipulated Bush.

I'll be checking out European real estate should such a nightmare come to pass...

My last two flights on Delta were abysmal. Rude customer service, repeated, unannounced gate changes, dirty planes, crummy cabin service.

I won't be flying them again. I am contemplating a holiday flight from Denver to San Francisco, and I am seriously considering driving. Between TSA and everything else, driving is much more of a pleasure...

I've been in IT since it was called DP (data processing). Google will smack Microsoft hard, because all of the hardware manufacturers hate dealing with Microsoft and their annoying software licensing.

If Google is giving operating systems away for free and MS is charging manufacturers $30, $40, $80 or more per PC, Google will win. Companies who have no problems moving manufacturing offshore will have no problems offering a cheaper netbook with a free operating system from a well known company.

Once Google forces MS to offer cheaper, less functional versions of their Windows OS, Google wins, because this will choke off Microsoft's oxygen (money) supply.

MS Office and MS Sharepoint are Microsoft cash cows which will be slaughtered by Google's OS.

Google is never going to offer full operating system support in Chrome for these Microsoft products that is as functional as what Microsoft offers.

In much the same way MS "breaks" competitors products by controlling Windows software compatibility, Google will turn the tables on Microsoft and break MS software compatibility in the Chrome OS, while offering shiny, free alternatives.

What Craigslist did to newspapers, Google will do to Microsoft - take the money out of their equation.

Is this good? Who knows? IT runs in cycles. Yesterday, it was mainframes, communications controllers and dumb terminals. Next came servers, routers and PCs.

Now it's "clouds", the Internet and netbooks/smartphones. Once a lot of important data goes missing from the "cloud", or worse, ends up in the hands of competitors or the NSA, we'll be back to keeping files on our own storage and the cycle will begin anew.

It's now just a matter of time. Too many people know what was done, and someone will talk. If it was death squads assassinating enemies of the state, folks are going to go to jail.

No wonder Cheney was so nervous. If he has any undisclosed locations left, he better go there. Supermax isn't so far from Wyoming.

I'd much prefer to be working in my sleep - and getting paid for it...

I got rid of mine after ABC cancelled "Max Headroom" sometime in 1988 and replaced it with "Mr. Belvedere".

Twenty one years hence, it's "Network 21" aka Cable Catnip. Sadly, there's no Edison Carter trying to break through the media-corporate coverups.

The truth will come out, it always does... Thanks Glenn.