Spreading Subliteracy, One Article at a Time…
Two warring memes: “The Total Depravity of Man” and “The Only Infinite Resource is Human Stupidity”. One of the things I detest most about Mass Media Podpeople is that as a class they are either woefully subliterate or engaged in a conspiracy to dumb down their audience. Either view is supportable from the evidence. Here’s a relatively innocuous one. (“Relatively” only because it affects few people directly.)
Mr C’s 7 Signs That Your Kid May Be A Hacker
Yeh. Mass Media Podpeople even in low-brow fake techie mags.
Debasing the language is what Mass Media Podpeople do best, with outright lies, twisting of truths (into lies) and distortions by deliberate (or stupid) misuse of words, so that words repeated often enough take on meanings foreign to their etymology. Mass Media Podpeople of all stripes do it, as the cutsy eWeek slideshow linked above demonstrates. Hijacking–once again–”hacking” and using the term to refer to cracking. (See here for a decent treatment of the terms.)
I’m almost tempted to start a “Mass Media Podpeople most misused word of the week” feature. The drawback? How to choose a most misused word… Reader feedback, a poll or some such would probably help, but that’s kinda like, well, work (echoes of Maynard G. Krebs), and I’m just playing this game to mollify the voices in my head.
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Posted: October 9th, 2007 under Blogroll.
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Time October 9, 2007 at 7:54 AM
Walid Shoebat…
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Time October 9, 2007 at 9:01 AM
SCHIP-Democrats Use Terrorist Tactics: Hiding Behi…
(Note to the Democrats and unhinged: No one is attacking the child, we are reaching over him to smack you in the head for using him as a shield…idiots, as well as pointing out how, by using him, you actually proved everything the president said abo…..
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Time October 9, 2007 at 10:02 AM
Your money back…
Norwegian food retailer Coop launched a new guarantee for its produce on Monday: “If you did not like the food, you will get your money back – no questions asked.”
Is Coop’s policy that unusual?…
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Time October 9, 2007 at 11:12 AM
On Democrats, Surveillance and Being Flaccid…
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Time October 9, 2007 at 11:57 AM
Politics and The ?Christian? Left…
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Time October 9, 2007 at 1:32 PM
Why Hannah Montana tix sell for so much…
All over the country, little girls are crying that they want — they need — tickets to see their idol, a 14-year-old named Miley Cyrus (a.k.a. Hannah Montana) in concert, and from coast to coast that has pushed mommies and daddies to extreme measures….
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Time October 9, 2007 at 1:53 PM
Tuesday Frivol: It Really IS the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown…
Safeway grocery stores holds a “big pumpkin” contest in Half Moon Bay, California during the annual Pumpkin Festival.
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Time October 9, 2007 at 2:03 PM
What are we thinking?…
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Time October 9, 2007 at 8:32 PM
Soldier Son is a Short Timer…
I got to talk online with my Soldier Son earlier today. Its the first time I?ve been able to talk with him on the computer in about a month. His computer has been out of whack and he finally got it back up and running.
I wonder how people stood it….
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Time October 10, 2007 at 12:06 AM
A-rabic on T-shirts..tres kewl…
A-rabic t shirts.
Because nothing says fashion like using the language of the very terrorists who attacked us.
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Time October 10, 2007 at 12:23 AM
He Dropped His Drawers for the Freedumb Run…
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Time October 10, 2007 at 1:08 AM
The Story Behind the Synthetic Life Story…
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Time October 9, 2007 at 7:49 AM
Does the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the U.N. General Assembly on 9 December 1948. Entry into force: 12 January 1951, meet Jimmy Carter’s legal definition of genocide…
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