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> Slow day. So it occurred to me to list the people in the news I simply
> will not let complete the second sentence no matter what station or story.
> More or less in order first to whenever I run out of memory.
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> Just about any US commercial media source
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Maybe it's because of the blogs I've started following, and that they draw attention to the bad, but it's struck me recently (go ahead, laugh) just how worthless almost all of the op-ed regulars are. I mean not just creepy priorities or ugly politics, but genuinely everyone-in-this-room-is-now-dumber-for-having-listened-to-it worthless. I never paid that much attention to David Brooks until this past year, but my sweet God, how is this man employed in something more challenging than simple assembly? He is the most vacuous person this side of some combination of Victoria Jackson and one of her SNL characters. And what I find kind of amazing is that it's not like they seem to have some sort of corpus of insightful exposition or technical expertise that they're still coasting on decades later. (Except Charles Krauthammer, as a deeply unsettling exception.) A common thread seems to be ivy -- must be that lifetime concrete floor you get. With that you could serve time for some heinous violence and still get a decent job afterward.
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> Just about anything in a US military uniform, unless they are out and
> pissed
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> Most stories about Africa sad to say.
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I've learned more about Africa and South Asia, just in terms of geography,
from the BBC and RFI than any other source. Not that the reporting is
particularly rewarding, but that it exists at all. Great for cleaning up
in pub trivia, too.
-- Andy