The Poor Man Institute

Wow.  Check out this conservative radio host spewing vicious anti-Semitism:

HOST: The reason you see more Jews now is because Bill Clinton flooded America with Jews, mostly of the throwback variety. Not the modern Jew, not the Jew who wants to come here and advance society. But the Jew who wants to come here and either live off the society or take us backwards two hundred years. That’s part of their diversity training. They don’t want the country to be too advanced, you get it?

CALLER: Right, and they come into our country and say, you bow down to me. You accept me, I don’t have to accept you.

HOST: I see the eyes behind those slits. I see hate and murder in most of their eyes, should I level with you?

CALLER: They’re not nice, they’re not cordial.

HOST: Whatever happened to when in Rome, do as the Romans do? I guess it didn’t make it Saudi Arabia.

OK, OK, I played fast and loose with some of the facts above.  The radio host in question is Michael Savage, and he isn’t actually talking about Jews (which would have been outrageous and likely ended his career), but rather Muslims (which is like, totally co0l). 

But seriously, the anti-Muslim bias in this country is so strong that you can get away with saying things about Islam and Muslims that you couldn’t come within ten yards of with respect to just about any other religion or its followers. 

Hell, even Scientology is treated with greater reverence (Peace Be Upon Xenu).

This is a fucked up state of affairs.

Dexter Filkins assesses the chance for “victory” in Afghanistan:

The Iraq analogy is useful again. There the military hung in, and got it right, and also got lucky. In some ways, really, they got a miracle. But strategies and policies generally do not deliver miracles. Can we expect a miracle in Afghanistan? Of course not. But it may take a miracle for us, and Afghanistan, to win.

So, it will take a miracle to win, where “win” is defined as “Iraq”.  Awesome.

Oh, Wired. I am willing to acknowledge that your days of cultural relevance, meaningful reporting, and plausible attempts to be accurate are long in the past, but how could you have gotten things so terribly wrong?

No confirmation from Eurocopter, but in avoiding putting the “green” label on their efforts, the company appears to be borrowing from everybody’s favorite movie helicopter legend, Blue Thunder. The 1980s cinematic masterpiece features a helicopter made by what is now Eurocopter, an Aérospatiale Gazelle. And one of the helicopter’s most impressive technologies was its “whisper mode” that allowed it to fly around as quiet as a glider. Could just be a coincidence.

Everybody? Everybody? Eurocopter, indeed. For shame, Wired.

We never hear much about the LSD era either: