I don't want to go to your poorly designed, ad ridden, ajax ruined websites. I want to read your news by RSS. I want to READ your news via rss, not just read the title and the first sentence.

I'm sure you do this to try and force us back to your site so you can bombard us with ads. Let me explain something to you. I, like most smart internet users, use AdBlock, so I never see your annoying ads. Second I'll use a different news source's RSS if you keep your crappy format.

See I don't need you anymore. Information is no longer in the strangle hold of the MSM. There are 1000's of news sources who will filter out your corporatist crap and present me only what I want in my news, information!

See I don't support you because, well honestly I think you suck and have long out lasted your usefulness.

In other words, change or be chastised.

The Edwards blogger thing is unfortunate. I'm a big fan of Pandagon, I even tried to write their wikipedia entry, but some rightwing-nuts deleted it.

Haven't read Shakespears's Sister as much but I've enjoyed what I've read.

I think its clear the media is at fault here. As long as they consider conservative talking points news worthy this stuff is going to happen.

What I'm not so clear about is how to feel about Edwards campaign. I mean they should have had a better understanding of the blogosphere before hiring bloggers. Pandagon is very unapologetic, snarky, and honest about their views. That is what has made Pandagon such a great blog.

It is clear that the public and the media still isn't ready to "take the gloves off" when dealing with the topic of religion. They still want to treat it as special and unquestionable. That is too bad.

Until we are able to discuss and criticize these institutions openly and critically, those who do question we be ostracized.

Richard Dawkins is appearing on CNN in response to the outrage cause by the clip I referred to below.

He will be appearing on the Paula Zahn show Monday the 12th (which is Darwin Day btw) hopefully to give voice to our outrage. I believe he will be on the 8EST show.

Here is part of the horrendous segment, for those who are too lazy to click the other day's link : ).

Ever wonder why I feel secularism is an important topic?

Watch this video and you may understand

It goes from bad, seeing the plight of two couple, to worse, a network giving intolerance a soap box.

Watch this and try for a moment to wear my shoes.

This stuff amuses me. I've never understood this extreme paranoia the right-wing has. This notion that they are a persecuted minority and that the big scary secular progressives are out to destroy America.

Though it doesn't seem as bad as it was last year, the talking heads are still talking about it.

From MediaMatters:

On the November 29 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O'Reilly continued to hype the so-called "war" on Christmas by claiming that retailers Best Buy and Crate & Barrel are "still ordering their people not to say, 'Merry Christmas,' " and that the stores "will fire" employees who do. O'Reilly also asserted that "ordering" employees "not to say 'Merry Christmas' " is "the worst kind of fascism you could possibly have." In fact, representatives of both stores have denied having policies that forbid employees to say "Merry Christmas" to customers.

Inclusiveness is fascism?

If Billo had done any research, say called the stores for a clarification, he would have found the facts. But he of course doesn't want the facts he wants to feel persecuted. Wants to legitimize the paranoia of this listeners.

I can understand why he does it. It sells. There real question is "Why are the fundamentalists so paranoid that they buy it?"

Man is that an accurate title.

Glenn Beck is a CNN Headline News "anchor". I've disliked him for a while now. There are a lot of reasons not to like him. As Jeff Cohen at TomPaine.com says, Glenn Beck is "a loudmouthed, factually-challenged, occasionally funny know-it-all." He is of the O'Reilly mold, where facts don't count and you can win an argument by yelling louder.

Then there is the now infamous "Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies." question he asked of representative elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to congress.

But the thing that really bothers me about him is that he always seems to be on! Wikipedia says his show airs nightly at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time, repeating at 9:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m.. That would explain why seems that every time I'm looking for news I run into him.

I guess I should stick to blogs.