Today, Christians remember when God really was dead. Or at least, when Jesus was really, most sincerely dead. For an appropriately morbid memento mori, here’s David Bentley Hart in First Things arguing that we’ve reached the point that conversation between … Continue reading →
A curious piece at The Atlantic reflects exactly how strange the liberal mindset is, even when it is trying to be honest with itself. The Czar does not normally read The Atlantic, and assumes you do not either. No need … Continue reading →
One of the Czars favorite themes upon which he pounds his calloused fist is how the mass mediathere is no point calling it the liberal mass media anymore, is there? Really? Anyone with a three-digit IQ knows this by nowfails … Continue reading →
It’s true, but today the Czar will take a little help from our good friend and frequent Castle visitor (and more frequent plumbing jammer) Uncle Jay. The Big Guy sends the Czar a fun little story from UK.News.Yahoo, which you … Continue reading →
Sometimes seismic shifts are so subtle they cannot be felt, and those often presage major earthquakes. Don’t get too excited here—but something intensely interesting happened yesterday in the world of media bias, and the Czar hopes you did not miss … Continue reading →
Imagine a candidate named Fields. Fields can be a man or a woman, a president, representative or a senator, federal-level or state-level, a Democrat or Republican. If Fields were a major player, and the news stories were written a certain … Continue reading →
So far, the good news about Obamacare is that very few people can actually get it. Yesterday, millions of people watched (or re-watched) The Daily Show’s brutal attack on both Obamacare and to a lesser extent the President himself. Indeed, … Continue reading →
Are you at risk for immediate death? You could be, and you might not even know. Most doctors agree that dying is the single leading cause of fatalities in the US right now. Take our helpful quiz and assess your … Continue reading →
The shutdown is proving to be utterly disastrous as far as the Main Stream Media can tell by glancing out their Starbucks windows. A quick roundup of the shutdown in pictures. Wild packs of dogs are roving the Mall, and … Continue reading →
Ted Cruz is a heckuva smart guy. He managed to convince the entire House to push him into the limelight. The House, as you know, did not overwhelmingly want to support his plan. He managed to rally them around it. … Continue reading →
This annoys us. AP has written a gripping, inspiring story of an Uruguayan man who survived four months of brutal winter conditions in the Andes. Remarkable human endurance, the story goes, with quotes about the 58-year-old man being a “good, … Continue reading →
Once we repair the hyperdrive, we’re SO there! The Czar is the one who typically provides commentary on scientific journalism, however this article caught Dr. J.’s eye. The long and short of it is that yet another exoplanet (planet outside … Continue reading →
Typical mainstream media representative Cenk Uygur stepped in a pile of his own feces yesterday when he tweeted, evidently in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman—who evidently will not be truly not guilty until 2016—the following: Ok, I give … Continue reading →
Think you have a bad day from time to time? Imagine the morons at KTVU Channel 2 in San Francisco/Oakland, who read on the air the names of the Asiana airline pilots: allow the Czar to quote, “Sum Ting Wong,” … Continue reading →
A Pew poll was released that surveyed Americans’ attitudes toward various professions. Journalists in particular are not particularly well liked by Americans. Since 2009, attitudes about journalists have dropped in every polling category: men, women, younger, older, education level, and … Continue reading →
What do you want, readers? Dr. J. was having lunch the other day with Mr. Morden. He asked, so Dr. J. answered: Dr. J. wants a Superman movie with someone other than Lex Luthor or General Zod as the villain … Continue reading →
Michael Shermer usually does pretty good analysis, but one of his lesser-effort essays is being circulated around the Facebook these days: *#147;The Science of Guns Proves Arming Untrained Citizens Is a Bad Idea.” Dr. J. forwarded the Czar this essay, … Continue reading →
Have you heard that NBA player Jason Collins is gay? Of course, you have. Did you hear that non-Obama administration figures have indeed solved the Benghazi murders of four Americans and know exactly who did it and where they can … Continue reading →
Does this bother any of you as much as it does the Czar? Items: MSM Stories: Some charges inexplicably dropped in Gosnell murder trial FAA deliberately screws with air traffic at behest of President Tsarnaev: did he have help? What … Continue reading →
Lots of folks have compiled examples of the media blaming initial acts of terror, crime, outrage, or basic incivility on “right wing extremists,” a term itself ginned up by the Department of Homeland Security on the persistently underwhelming Secretary Napolitano. … Continue reading →
Did you know Hillary Clinton is going to be President in 2016? And did you know that she is such a shoe-in that there is no point even considering a primary? Yes, it is only 2013 but the facts are … Continue reading →
Think you know what it takes to put together a Ten Things You Didn’t Know list? After a short, challenging introduction that says really nothing, you decide to see if indeed the author has some arcane bit of trivia you … Continue reading →
By now, you already know way too much about the Kermit Gosnell horror story—and you heard about it from conservative blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. You certainly have seen or heard little coverage from the MSM. Let us be certain—they are … Continue reading →
You weren’t the only one playing brackets this weekend. Take a look at the Mainstream Media’s bracket picks. How many did you call correctly? The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The … Continue reading →
Psychologists ought to be studying the strange disconnect between the Right and Left when it comes to perception of media bias. The Right has, for a long time now, been supplying fairly inarguable evidence that the news media is tilted … Continue reading →
You kids too young to remember Watergate will probably not remember Bob Woodward (or Edward Woodward, for that matter). Woodward was one of the two reporters (the other was Carl Bernstein, or Leonard Bernstein, for that matter) who brought down … Continue reading →
The Czar has read and consumed your publication since the April 1979 issue. He has subscribed without fail since 2000, but is compelled to conclude he will not be renewing his subscription. In that time, he has seen the publication … Continue reading →
The mighty Borepatch pulled a chair up by the lobby bar, took a sip of his freshly made Yoo Hoo mojito, and told the Czar: About your latest missive, I couldn’t help but think that while large parts of the … Continue reading →
Long-time reader BG let us know via Twitter that HuffPo is reporting “Scientists Create Zombies in Lab,” and adds that this should be like shooting fish in a barrel for us. This story is not at all limited to HuffPo, … Continue reading →
The MSM is at it again. Or rather, still. A physics guy familiar with the recently discovered (?) Higg boson said that the mass of the particle is about 126GeV, which potentially leads to instability in its mass. As a … Continue reading →
The ever-busy D.T., our spiffy and smiling Myrmidon wrangler, writes to us with a surprisingly accurate opening line: Oh Wise, Mighty, Terrible, Yet Surprisingly Cuddly When the Mood Strikes Him Czar, I read this account of a “racial brawl” at … Continue reading →
Were there five or six houses on this street not listed as having guns? It looks like you miscounted. Do you feel lucky, punk? Dr. J. took a drive through the News Journal gun registration database the other day, looking … Continue reading →
Borepatch put us onto this one, and it sounds like a bunch of hooey. According to something called (really) HotHardware.com, Verizon has developed a technology that, when put into a cable television receiver, can eavesdrop on your conversations while you … Continue reading →
Our beloved Operative B.G. posted this in the personals section of the New Atlantis Lefty Arts Weekly Paper: Esteemed and Exalted Gormogons, Although my wife and I are among the half of Americans who pay taxes so the other half … Continue reading →
In case you did not know this, the Boy Scouts of America prefer that atheists and homosexuals find a different organization to join. The first makes sense because the BSA is fundamentally a faith-based group, and atheists would not strictly … Continue reading →
Perhaps the Doc would like to comment, but when seven people die from a form of meningitis allegedly linked to contaminated steroids, you really cannot promote that as an outbreak. Yet the Media is all excited, and wants you to … Continue reading →
Oh yeah, they have a solution for you, all right. Here’s a new meme. Or rather, a really old meme being given a new application. As you may have heard, there is a neo-Nazi-like political party in Greece ascending in … Continue reading →
Mr. Philippe Reines, who evidently has no idea how to manage himself, let alone the media. No, you didn’t elect him. The news about the Libyan attack keeps getting worse. The Czar was particularly troubled at an emerging story that … Continue reading →
Remember a couple of days ago when the Czar was really annoyed with the Main Stream Media, and how this was the beginning of the end? One of us, probably Volgi (because he often forgets to sign his tweets), tweeted … Continue reading →
Know who really had a bad week? “Today, Mitt Romney admitted to ThoughtCrime against our great and glorious supreme leader, who forgave Romney in all his benevolence. Also, we’re getting the poop sued out of us.” Not Barack Obama, who … Continue reading →
Uh-oh! The Los Angeles Times has a science article written by Louis Sahagun, who appears to be in junior high school. Success! You found liquid water in the steam of your laser! Now shut down, before you uncontrollably use your … Continue reading →
The ever-intriguing Stanley Kurtz has a piece out there today about the increased polarization of the media; he suggests, in part, that the collapse of so-called independent reporting is a mixture of bad and good. Bad, for example, because now … Continue reading →
A curious argument is starting to turn up in the wake of the Wisconsin shooting. Okay, some people are starting to acknowledge, there was no way to prevent a dirtbag like Wade Page from obtaining a firearm simply because there … Continue reading →
And so begins the media template. Stories on the Wisconsin shooting are already portraying the shooter as a nice, quiet guy who left the military in 1998. Quotes from people who knew him describe him as a neighbor who kept … Continue reading →
Since the Aurora, Colorado, shootings, gun sales are up nationally, either despite the media’s fear and terror about firearms, or because of the media’s fear and terror. Firearms are the media’s biggest bogeyman. And like all bogeymen, this fear is … Continue reading →
Christian Bale, seen here visiting shooting victims in Colorado, has not received a $26K grant from the NIH. He is Batman, however… Your Gormogons have always been strong proponents of intellectual honesty, making our case with sound logic, reason, but … Continue reading →
Science writer George Dvorsky has a really fascinating and informative piece up at io9 cleverly titled “Intense Magnetic Fields Around White Dwarfs Reveal an Entirely New Class of Molecular Bonding,” in which he reviews how the incredible magnetic fields around … Continue reading →
All of you tend to remember the Czar’s writings better than he does, so there is probably little value in reminding you about the Czar’s skepticism regarding life based on arsenic biology. We suggested you assume—unlike the press—that this was … Continue reading →
Well, if you happen to need a lot of hooey, you can always grab a handful of the Los Angeles Times. What a jerk. He hates all the good things about Europe, like chronic unemployment, shoddy craftsmanship, and suicidal debt. … Continue reading →
The affable and strong-of-backbone Nightfly writes in to color in some of our sketches on media bias: Hello, Your Dreaded Awfulness – Many years ago, I took a number of journalism classes in college. Thankfully, the first of my professors … Continue reading →
The objective media is balanced, provided you ignore that tilt to the left. Much ado is being made over MSNBC’s reprehensible editing of Mitt Romney’s comments on the free market, in which his contrast between the simplicity of ordering a … Continue reading →
The Obama Administration has clearly come to us through the looking glass. The Czar brings up, as usual, an excellent point in that when the media sees blood in the water, they, like sharks, find it hard to resist. Typically … Continue reading →
US Commerce Secretary John Bryson was ticketed in a California hit and run, in which his car struck into two others. He took off, and was found incoherent (allegedly and possibly not) behind the wheel a short distance later. Why … Continue reading →
How the Obama campaign has been treating the press; and the press has beengetting a little tired of it. Many of us on the Right are thumping our knees with laughter over the Left’s outrageous denial that the Walker re-election … Continue reading →
Frequently, folks on the Right accuse the mainstream media of throwing out distraction stories—tales calculated to drive you away from lefty scandals, Democrat Party screw-ups, and general Keystone-Koppery from the liberals. Alas, in the previous three years, the average member … Continue reading →
Your newly twisted media meme of the hour is the rapid departure of Richard Grenell from his post as Mitt Romney’s spokesperson for foreign affairs. Without so much as a by-your-leave, and only minutes into the job it seems, Grenell … Continue reading →
Are you ready for SuperMoon? Oh, you gotta be ready for SuperMoon! “Supermoon alert: Biggest full moon of 2012 due Sat.” screams FoxNews! “Weekend ‘Supermoon’ Will be 2012’s Largest” promises KSEE, Fresno. “That’s not just a full moon this week, … Continue reading →
If the Czar could wish anything for your survival, it would be the gift of skepticism. When someone runs up to you with a stunning claim (“I just saw Bigfoot! And eleventy!”), your first response really should be “How good … Continue reading →
So the news media is afire with reports of kids—yes, ordinary, good stay-at-home kids like yours… especially like yours—drinking hand sanitizer to get drunk! And many are ending up in a hospital! And here is a video we pulled off … Continue reading →
The Czar might like to take a moment to return to one of his favorite tropes: the festering arrogance of the Main Stream Media. Specifically, the Czar would like to introduce you to one of their techniques which seems to … Continue reading →
Long-time readers of this grand site, which is probably most of you by now, understand there are a few things which continually peeve the Czar. One of these is bad science reporting. Nearly every story of even slight scientific interest … Continue reading →
Your Gormogons have been quiet about the Treyvon, beyond the Czar’s outstanding essays here, because the public simply doesn’t know a lot about the situation and the usual suspects have been ratcheting up the rhetoric for power and profit. Dr. J. … Continue reading →
You may have heard about Lenny B. Robinson. His black Lambo was pulled over in Maryland last week for not having license plates; he was also dressed in a perfect Batman costume. Turns out Mr. Robinson is a well-to-do businessman … Continue reading →
Liberals will have their work cut out for them over the next couple of months. With all this bad-for-the-Left news going on, you can bet that distractions and personal attacks will be the usual bill of fare. Things couldn’t be … Continue reading →
“Hey, shut up!” Have a Heart, Bonnie Raitt. That was Dr. J.’s reaction to the hateraide and vitriol spewed at his master, the Sith Lord and all around great guy, Vice President Cheney, for having the unmitigated gall of receiving … Continue reading →
Sigh. Okay, a science update. Pssh. You already know where this is going. So the Cassini spacecraft has detected a thin layer of oxygen around the Saturnian moon Dione. If you are into these sorts of things, that is interesting … Continue reading →
The Czar hopes he is right about this. But this weird story about 14 girls and 1 boy in LeRoy, New York, who have developed nervous tics and so-called verbal outbursts. The kids&146;s parents have engaged Erin Brockovich to investigate … Continue reading →
ABC News is terrified to report… deep breath… Romney Failed to Disclose Swiss Bank Account Income!!!!!!!11!!!$!!!ELEVENTY!!!! !!1 !! The horror, the horror. Allow the Czar to summarize this horrible, horrible story, paragraph by paragraph. You might want to cushion yourselves … Continue reading →
The Chicago Sun-Times announced this week that after seven decades, it will discontinue endorsements of candidates because, well, the whole thing is a bit silly. The editors have some good arguments: in the age of the Internet, we know more … Continue reading →
One of the big things that Americans walked away with after this weekend’s debates was that the news media is completely moronic. Newt Gingrich finally called them on it, and moderator Diane Sawyer was embarrassed enough to immediately change the … Continue reading →
You know, there is one thing that differentiates the Czar more so than the other brilliant yahoos who write here. Oh, they certainly share the Czar’s hatred for it, but the Czar has a certain passion for it. That thing … Continue reading →
Crank up the old Leftist media machines! The Los Angeles Times has a story that for all intents and purposes is a smear-piece on Christine O’Donnell’s endorsement of Mitt Romney. First sentence? “She’s not a witch.” Then why mention it? … Continue reading →
NBC News reported this morning that astronomers have found a planet capable of supporting life. Why, here is a picture of the happy guy right here. Except, as you can predict by this essay’s very existence, they got every piece … Continue reading →
A couple of recent essays and editorials caught the Czar’s eye, and there is a strange theme to them: Gingrich is proof the Tea Party is dead. Long live the Tea Party, suckas. Don’t you media types wish. B-b-b-but Czar, … Continue reading →
In other news, George Michael is improving from whatever disease it is that makes faded British rock stars look like Ringo Starr. And in other news, Fox reports “Microscopic Worms May Hold Key to Life on Mars.” God knows NASA … Continue reading →
Lawyers very much enjoy a fair test of the facts. Did x occur? Here is a test to see if the legal conditions were met. Everyone agrees with it, and the outcome winds up less disputable. The media has no … Continue reading →
Ah yes, the age old problem: Reply All is Different From Reply. CBS News, who by all accounts showed their inability to do news with their botched Republican debate Saturday night, continued to screw themselves. First, you have a moderator … Continue reading →
Hey, news media. America is headed for a financial crisis of epic proportions. But perhaps Kim Kardashian is more important. America is headed for a financial crisis of epic proportions. However, we should probably focus on the fact Jessica Simpson … Continue reading →
You are the editor of a newspaper or television news program. The following stories come across your desk, and you need to decide which ones to relate or ashcan: A Republican presidential candidate’s father leased a parcel of land for … Continue reading →
More science news. Which is good news, because ‘Puter can sleep a little later knowing he can skip anything with learnin’ in it. This NPR headline caught our eye: Messenger Reveals Mercury Is Not What Scientists Theorized. It’s not a … Continue reading →
Minion #462.5 writes in with something that almost succeeds, except it fails, and fails quite badly. Oh most dread and awful Czar (may thine enemies low-crawl naked across a mile of broken glass to pay homage to your shadow), Fearing … Continue reading →
At the Eye of Polyphemus today, Jamie Jeffords, not Scott Summers, turns his eye towards the Greta VanSustren, Tucker Carlson, Mike Tyson kerfuffle so that, thankfully, we don’t have to. Dr. J.
Continue reading →Once again, it falls to the Gormogons to spell it out for everybody. Another “flash mob” incident happened in Germantown, MD, in which a group of 28 teens charged a convenience store and looted the place, evacuating in under a … Continue reading →
Not too far off from an essay in which is Czar showed how liberals continually move the goalposts out of a mistaken belief in their own popularity, Walter Russell Mead at The American Interest recounts the same history of the … Continue reading →
Hey J-School grads! News has been bogged down lately. Here are some golden ideas for you to write stories on, based of course on your typical templates and antics. Have at it! Remember when you violated Michele Bachmann’s legal right … Continue reading →
There has been no immediate end of discussion on the latest Time magazine PR disaster—an article that openly suggests that the Constitution is becoming an out-moded document. Sure, the article is framed to investigate whether the original intentions of the … Continue reading →
The Czar told you this was coming. The Los Angeles Times dutifully reports that House Speaker Boehner and House Majority Leader Cantor are virtually at fisticuffs, tearing at each other’s throats, because things are really this bad for the Republicans. … Continue reading →
This AFP piece by Dan De Luce caught our eye this evening, and there is something positively off-putting about it. “Commanders say Obama overruled them on Afghanistan.” Well, not quite. The article says that GNL David Petraeus—a commander (singular)—and ADM … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin has been thinking about this quite a lot lately. Is CNN’s Randi Kaye any relation to our own Sleestak? I tried asking Sleestak, but truthfully, that stutter of his makes him hard to understand. The MandarinThe Mandarin, whose … Continue reading →
It’s seriously bad when your blinders are on this long. The Chicago Sun-Times tends to skew slightly right-of-center in its editorial reporting (though it is getting lefty), but its featured columnists are way off the left end. Competing for most … Continue reading →
The Czar spotted the following in The Muscovy Examiner this morning: Frank Neuhauser, winner of the very first National Spelling Bee, has died. He won the 1925 contest by correctly spelling “gladiolus.” He was 95. The Czar expects that a … Continue reading →
JS enclosed this into a wine bottle UPC bar code using his stegographic skills. Dear the The Czar, Have you seen the news articles about the poor female reporter who was assaulted during the celebrations in Cairo? I was reading … Continue reading →
Journalists, in an effort to infuriate the Czar ever more with incredible laziness, are playing a telephone game with a story about a planet way, way, way out around the Sun larger than Jupiter and quietly circling our sun. Not … Continue reading →
You know how we often say that the major media will write stories to fit a pre-decided template and if the news does not fit that template, they will change it until it does? You will recall Tunisia overthrew their … Continue reading →
Your Czarness: Might I offer a random observation concerning your first points in yesterday’s “News Roundup”? Now you might be sitting in your frozen castle up in Muscovy wondering what in tarnation Sarah Palin and Mohammed El-Baradei could possibly have … Continue reading →
Well done. Thanks for Professor Mondo for the link. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of … Continue reading →
Airhead editorialist Dana Milbank wants to take a pledge: that as much as he cannot stand Sarah Palin, and is obsessed with talking about her, and thinking about her, and wondering what she is doing, or saying, or thinking at … Continue reading →
It is imperative that European and American leaders show Russia that they will not tolerate this situation. At every bilateral or multilateral forum, European Union member states and the United States should ask specific questions about the progress of investigations … Continue reading →
The increasingly shabby New York Times, in an effort to show the world it can reduce news stories ad absurdum like Time or Newsweek, has prepared a pretty good proof that their junior editors can be just as shoddy as … Continue reading →
