Anybody else notice that the Seattle Times op/ed page has seemed to moderate a little bit in the wake of the reader backlash generated by their execrable and condescending defense of Rob McKenna’s grandstanding anti-HCR lawsuit?
Now I’m not suggesting that the Times editors consciously adjusted their bias in response to angry emails and canceled subscriptions, but then I’ve never believed that the bulk of media bias is conscious. But the page has seemed a bit more reasonable in recent weeks.
Or maybe, eternal optimist that I am, I’m just seeing what I want to see?
They still blow a big wet kiss to Sarah Palin every chance they get, ridiculously putting her on the same level as the President.
The big money corporations desperately want another dim-wit like W in there so they can finish the pillaging of the middle class.
It’s in your imagination. They hammered again on our thumb-sucking state legislature, and the hammering is well-deserved.
You are seeing what you want to see.
# 1: Yep, they figure we’ve still got a little money left they can siphone out of us.
(a) They’ve got most families utterly reliant on two-income workers;
(b) our homes are mortgaged in excess of their value;
(c) savings rates are now non-existent;
(d) We now spend five years paying for a new car;
(e) credit card interest rates are in areas which would have landed the lender in jail for usury in my teen years;
(f) Despite their attempts to blame the Democrats for the budget deficit and national debt, it was the Bush administration which mortgaged our children’s future (tax cuts, war spending, de-regulation, lax oversight, and finally TARP) so the financial elites could enjoy obscene profits.
The only thing they’ve got left to wring out of most of us is our grandchildren’s future and our social security funding. Of course, that’s their big play next – they will argue that in order to pay off the “crisis” created by the national debt we will need to turn over our social security accounts to wall street.
Yeah, what #3 said.
The End Is Near
I read an article on the internet today about how much the technology of sex dolls has improved. It said within five years they’ll be better than women! Can you imagine great sex with none of the backtalk or other side effects of a real woman? You do realize what this means, don’t you? This is the last generation of humans. This is better than the Rapture, which would have left all the Democrats behind! The new improved sex dolls are going to wipe out the ENTIRE HUMAN SPECIES! I immediately dashed off a memo to the rabbit management cadre telling them to speed up our planning to occupy the biological niche that will be vacated when humans go extinct. This is great! I thought we’d have to wait for the Rapture, and then only get the Republican territory, but we’re gonna get the whole rock in one human generation! This is BIG!! REALLY BIG!!!
Of course, this means the end of the Seattle Times, too.
“CybOrgasMatrix dolls use an innovative material — a very elastic gel with a strong shape memory, which, they have shown in side-by-side tests, is superior to silicone in realism, elasticity, shape memory, and durability. Additional features include a pelvic thruster motor and audio capability (using wireless headphones).
“In June 2006, Henrik Christensen of the European Robotics Research Network told the UK’s Sunday Times that ‘people are going to be having sex with robots within five years.'”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_doll
@6
Let’s hope the Republican’s buy lots of those. Lord knows their kinky enough for it.
Nobody. Could. Have. Predicted.
Goldy,
Never underestimate the power of subscribers canceling their subscriptions for “stated cause.” This gets into the ear of the head of circulation.
Trust me on this one. I sat in the STC board room back in 1999 and listened to H. Mason Sizemore(Publisher at the time)while doing some consultant work for the STC regarding circulation.
It’s also the time I heard Mason say he was going to bust up the union at STC so Carolyn Kelly could replace him as publisher “without having any blood on her hands for breaking up the union.”
When the STC endorsed Bush for president in 2000 and screwed the union, that’s when I quit my subscription and told them why.
Vote at the ballot box, and don’t forget to vote with your wallet.
Individually they may be no big deal, but collectively they can change anything and everything.
Even kill the Reagan Revolution.
Hey, it’s been a slow week.
I see GoldenBoy McKenna is now suing to keep Yucca Mountain open….Joins Senator Patty Murray in opposing shut down action taken by the Obama administration. What’s a Teabagger to do?
The Times says this is “going against” Congress, but fails to mention the shutdown passed the House a couple weeks ago and passed the Senate 85-9 BIPARTISANSHIP AT LAST!!!!! Yet somehow the 1987 law remains “on the books”.
The administration has promised a new “long range” plan (heh). What’s that half-life again?
The best way to deal with nuclear waste is to stop creating it.
i remain amazed you all confuse a left wing paper with a right wing one….Times is left wing, zero affinity w/ consiervatives
I thought Goldy told everyone to stop reading the Seattle Times. So why is he still reading it?
@13, you thought incorrectly. Goldy urged people to cancel their subscriptions.
@12, obviously, you don’t get much past the sports page and the comics. And just a hint, crossword puzzles have a notorious left wing bias.
@14
Do you believe Goldy is most angry at the Seattle Times for:
A) Not being hired by them?
B) Them saying Darcy Burner lied about having an Econ degree?
C) Them using the term Amen Bloggers?
D) They don’t think exactly like him?
Troll,
You should be in bed by now. Are you sneaking your parents’ laptop under your covers? Bad, Troll, bad. Nighty, night.
Not your imagination, Goldy. They’ve produced about 4 reasonable editorials out of 6, a new record. Makes me uneasy, somehow.
Whatever happened to ‘Funky Winkerbean’? Did they change the strip to ‘Deadwood’.