Trig Troofer-friendly Daily Beast tries damage control.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 23rd at 01:30 PM  | 

It’s actually very entertaining to watch The Daily Beast try to offer a ‘balanced’ look at the Trig Palin situation. The short version of said [situation], for those who missed it:  one of Wonkette’s more unhinged writers said a variety of disgusting things about Trig Palin; and in response, the Internet took Wonkette out into the alley and administered a curb-stomping made all the more | Read More »

Tina Brown Says “Wingnut” Women Blow To Feminism. I say, What Feminism?

By: Lori Ziganto (Diary)  |  June 10th at 10:13 PM  | 

Sorry, Tina Brown, but feminism is already dead. And I say, “You’re welcome.” As perpetual children, you self-avowed feminists may not thank us yet. You may continue to stomp and whine and throw your little tantrums, petulantly holding your mouths closed to the icky vegetables known as truth, personal responsibility and self-sufficiency, but one day you will thank us. See, one day you may live | Read More »

Acoustic Switches, Oil Spills and Wikipedia Experts

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  May 25th at 07:01 PM  | 

The Daily Beast’s Rick Outzen is like a dog with a bone. Rick (along with a legion of other self-imagined experts on the ‘net) is getting a lot of mileage out of the notion that an acoustic switch (see diagram below the fold) might have averted disaster on the Deepwater Horizon: We know that the Deepwater well lacked the remote-control, acoustical valve [sic] that experts | Read More »