My guess Bart was making a little joke calling us “patient”.  Maybe it was a reference to the Medicare debate.

No way to respond to his Tumblr postings and not sure how to respond to the economist he quoted either.  Oh well.

The current state of debate on the local scene is the same as the national scene in that there is none, no debate at all, just duelling banjos, I mean duelling sound bites, contrasting propaganda.

- or else I’m not being patient.

Well, so much for discussion and criticism in Barticles. Its a perfect way for a libertarian asst. editor to end those silly notions of feedback. I guess I will even have to say goodbye to R. Smith. Bye R. I was looking forward to asking Bart about his friends at PH Charter school, his questionable market is everything approach to life. oh well.

Stupid is as stupid does, Forest Gump.

RTD is forcing comments through Facebook and whatever Hinkle has dreamed up. Why? There is no reason for doing so.  I do not want an insecure Facebook account. Goodbye.

Goodbye to Uno, A.Corporal, Simmertime and Biscuit, along w/Bobby and RSmith.

Where are the Constitution thumping T-Party types when the 1st,4th,5th or 6th Amendments are under attack ? They do not care then. Only when kicking old people off Medicare or Social Security do they quote the Constitution. I will give Bart credit for being sensitive to Constitutional claims.

Most corrupt president ever. A simple minded man once made reference to the number of Reagan admin officials who were indicted. That’s because Reagan was an honest man and his justice dept wasn’t run by an unqualified toady who refused to investigate the criminal activity around the White House. Holder is just such a criminal. Playing the race card and hiding behind a corrupt media won’t work forever though. Landslides a comin. Mark my word.

How are Tea Partier’s to prove they are not racist ? 

Is that a question with an answer ? 

Is it bad to answer a question with another question ?

For the same reason, they like Clarence Thomas.

Bart is to be commended for resisting the AG’s witch hunt.

Scientific American is a decent journal. If scientists are weak to the influence of corporate money does not mean they are equally prone to weakness of ego and culture. Hmn ?

Still, sobering words.

People have suggested that global warming science is not to be believed due to scientists pandering for grant money.  While this is a weak and somewhat spurious argument hard to fault those falling for it.  Sounds real enough.

Not to mention plenty of room for doubt and skepticism regardless of the argument.

Chicken or egg:  which came first, loss of reverence for science or weakening of institutions that maintain high standards for scientific and impartial studies (like the EPA, the FDA, the NIH, etc.). Which comes first ?

One thing you should always ask yourself is who pays the bills, where is the money coming from, who has a financial interest in the outcome. 

Follow the money trail.

Cooch is spot on. When arms manufacturers develope weapons with public money, they’re expected to produce their data and prove the weapons work. The same standard should apply to climate rapture touting, fame chasing junk science nerds. That they are trying to hide behind the assinine assertion of “academic freedom” only proves that it is, indeed, their weiner in the picture. Watching the left implode is so much fun. If only I could taste their tears. sigh.

It might come as a shock to Roger to discover “academic freedom” is a real concept not to be confused with “tenure” a mainly obsolete concept slowly dieing out across the world, an unaffordable luxury.

Academic freedom on the other hand means there is no way researchers will be able to publish honest but critical papers if they mst defend them against lawyers and politicians and people with money at every turn.

The only way to get honesty is with freedom.  If bad research, like “cold fusion”, is published others will quickly refute it, but not if they are scared rabbits.

Fortunately there are still people with the good sense not to throw out the baby with the bath water.

To accuse the scientists in pro-global warming camp of buckling to corporate money is ridiculous. Most of the antis are financed by those “objective” coal companies and utilities that use coal. As Mr. Smith states, there should be quid pro quid between the results of a weapons manufacturer and climate science. First, the defense industry has pushed a lot of junk,uses questionbable, manipulative, sometimes illegal tactics to make a sale. Secondly, not all sciences are created equal with easily quantifiable as well qualatative results that neatly balance out in relationship to each other.

Well, yes, but corporate sponsorship of biomedicat research isn’t the same as research into the reasons for climatic changes.  There is no economic benefit for the scientist, whether the scientist is correct or not in his research into this particular issue.

As for an analogy between gun manufacturers and scientists investigating climate change, this simply doesn’t parse.  Isn’t it fun to read and watch conservative belch forth irrational commentary, pretending that their ideas pass the test of sanity?

Pawlenty was just helping a man start a new business. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. He is not just a child molester but a entreupreneur which is as close to a priesthood as you get with Republicans. All this makes perfect sense. Besides pawlenty is too far to the left for the T-Party which is worse than being a child molester.

I wouldn’t mind giving up cell phones.

Like the cartoon in today’s paper, no one has adultery anymore because people can’t get away from their smartphones.

I have an idea. Let’s NOT install that mural in the statehouse.

One can always find an excuse to show a good-looking lady, ah, at least a female of uncertain occupation. 

But the praise for “let the market decide” remedy is seriously clouded by actual results when government permits unregulated taxi service.  A little research into this issue would have helped.

I hope Bart can follow his own advice and be honest.  Bart is far to the right in my opinion.

In fact you have to look under rocks to find any conservatives willing to comprimise, or so it seems. Conservative voters and conservative leaders may be of two different minds because voters are not beholden to special interests.

That was one thing to the credit of George Bush. He admitted openly he had strong beliefs. If you absolutely believe you are correct why try to comprimise.

I think it’s important to continue funding these orgs, otherwise they’ll go tits up and, since they are all snotty liberal endeavors, that means the people running the scams will simply go on welfare because there’s not a lot the typical liberal can do in a grownup, real world economy.  Loafing around on gov’t handouts is all they know. The’re simply isn’t any demand for snotty, self righteous, morally pompous, condescending posers at Wal-Mart. Besides, it would take years to train them how to use a broom. Better to just funnel the welfare payments to their “cultural” orgs so they’ll stay out of everybodies hair..

I agree with bart on this one. While I am hardly a fan of Kookinelli, faulting him re/ being correct on the law is hardly fair. Many people from the left and right confuse what is legal with what is their own notion of what is fair. They often diverge from each other.

Expect Cantor and Co. to gin up something before election. But to be fair, the dems would do the same thing.

Well, the Justice Dept. is utterly corrupt and the press chained itself to Obama when it collectively decided to toss it’s superficial professionalism aside and actively promote him so, even though this administration is corrupt beyond belief, there’s no one other than talk radio and FOX to point it out. Not that this can last mind you….such collaborative corruption is toxic and deadly in the long run.

Let’s see, the most corrupt administration in recent history in that of Ronald Reagan.  You can look it up as to the number indicted and given prison terms. 

Of course, the Justice Dept. is corrupt, as is the DoD, the CIA, and the DAR.  And the Obama administration?  Oh, what depths this administration has sunk to and no one to police it since all agencies of law enforcement are corrupt…it’s all so deadly and corruptive that the Rapture, though delayed for a brief time, will surely occur within the next few months….

Why are conservatives so slow-witted they can’t see the unintended consequences of their repeated attacks on leftwing media ?

NPR, which has long been a bastion of unbiased and fair reporting (relatively), may be moving in the same direction as FOX News, namely radical, commercially funded, ideologically biased, paranoid, and hyper-sensitive to opposing “threats” whether real or imaginary.

Will leftwing media just quietly go away after losing federal money or will it bunker down like rightwing media has already done ?  Fortress Liberal. I suspect the latter.  Wishful thinking will not cure liberalism. Intelligent pragmatism might water it down, but that is nowhere to be found. Liberals will only learn to circle wagons like conservatives have already done.

So, with that in mind, what is Bart’s beef. Seemingly he might lose his vanity position with another institution no one has ever heard of but serves to boost the ego of random newsmen.  Gee, my condolences Bart.

Considering the stalwart and simply tireless efforts of ONO is media getting any more transparent these days or less ?

It seems to be losing funding which leaves it to the tender mercies of rich cranks with an agenda and their synchophantic entourage, not to mention names.

Is a free press free ?  Who will pay the bills.

This persistent idea that NPR is somehow a hot-house full of lefties continues to amaze.  Sure, you can find an interview, a comment, a story that might by your standards be “left-wing,” but mainly NPR explores stories and interviews people from all sides of the political spectrum.  NPR has some great programs, such as “On the Media,” which examines stories and presumed bias wherever it occurs. Then there’s all that leftish music that WMCV plays for hours; makes me pine for the old USSR.

He likes NPR, the Great Depression and Plains Indians. Good choices.

Not perfect. Educated in No. Carolina ( is that possible ?)  and given to vanity publishing.

I would read his E-book if I only had time to waste in amateur scribbling. Ok, I’m here. If I had additional time to waste that is.

Not to be rude ( who am I kidding ) has anyone read it yet ?

Yeah, where are all the T-Party Constitutional gurus when you need them. I guess they think the Constittuion only applies to their wacko theories on spending powers,taxes,ect. But those 4th,5th, 6ht Amendments are sooooooooo 1789.

Maybe media General stock would be more than $5.00 a share if you worried more about your own newspaper instead of appealing to yahoos by NYT bashing.

I’m with Bart.  Moreover, any of the possible Republicans would be better than Obama, even Romney (yuck!).

They shoot people ,too. Sometimes justified, on page D-10 when unjustified.

The photo looks like a cute little lapdog. I don’t think they shoot Yorkies and Beagles and Bischon Frises with little pink bows and doggie sweaters.

Or do they ? 

I don’t know. I might be convinced cops go off half-cocked against mutts, but I’m betting the dogs being killed look pretty menacing and aren’t being restrained by their perp owners.

Why don’t they shoot cats ?

The trick is to stay interesting and relevant to the public WITHOUT making contreversial comments.