I am hooked on Internet news and blogs. I admit it freely. I live in a very rural area, so rural that I don't get TV reception.....
This is an unmitigated blessing, and I have never missed it. In fact, when I visit my relatives on the Mainland, I am ever more shocked and amazed by the raw squalor, displayed right in their living rooms by the ever-larger, and ever-louder, TV screens. What a miracle it has been for me, the last couple of years and especially now that I have a Mac and a high-speed connection, to get what are now my favorite "TV" shows on my computer: Democracy Now!, the Daily Show, Bill Moyer's Journal, and the Colbert Report. These are just the gravy atop the solid fare of blogs like Daily Kos, Americablog, Firedoglake, and Truthout.org.
So imagine my dismay when I received an increasing number of rightwing propaganda emails from my older brother, who just (in his 63rd year) got his first computer and internet connection. You must bear in mind that my brother, Bob, is not a reader - but he does like to watch the "news" on TV.
Here's the latest example of outrageousness that he has somehow come to espouse:
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