Category Archives: Truth and Falsehood

Eat the news, not too much

By Frank Paynter | Published: March 4, 2011

…most of us do not yet understand that news is to the mind what sugar is to the body. News is easy to digest. The media feeds us small bites of trivial matter, tidbits that don’t really concern our lives and don’t require thinking. That’s why we experience almost no saturation. Unlike reading books and [...]

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Republican disinformation

By Frank Paynter | Published: March 1, 2011

Republican subversives, the same greedy corporate players that brought us the Citizens United decision and tipped the 2000 election in favor of that incredibly stupid and detached exemplar of vacuity, George W. Bush, have been funneling money into a media saturation campaign in Wisconsin. The campaign is rife with misinformation and deceit. It’s tedious to [...]

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Sodding the Commons

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 25, 2010

Netroots Wisconsin hosts Uniting the Cheddarsphere in Madison today. They tapped me for the panel “Fighting Astroturf-Based Telecom Policy and a Corporate Broadband Future.” Astroturf? Whazzat? Take a look at this excerpt from a letter filed with the FCC by the “Arkansas Retired Seniors Coalition,” a group that leaves no trace of itself on the [...]

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Toyota

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 24, 2010

The Senate held hearings today on Blackwater and the shell companies they contrived in order to share lucrative contracts with Raytheon. The Blackwater testimony was misleading, vague, and at times seemed close to perjury. More hearings will be held to sort out the mess. I doubt that Cheney or Eric Prince will do any hard [...]

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CIA agents killed in the line of duty

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 1, 2010

So ‘ere’s to you fuzzy-wuzzy, at your ‘ome in the Soudan; You’re a pore benighted ‘eathen, but a first class fightin’ man. – Rudyard Kipling Since a time before the centuries of failure of the British imperialists to subdue “the wily Pathan”, since the time of Hasan bin Sabah and before, a time stretching back [...]

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Special Prosecutor for Bush, Cheney, and DOJ Attorneys

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 24, 2009

February 24, 2009 *Statement on Prosecution of Former High Officials * We urge Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a non-partisan independent Special Counsel to immediately commence a prosecutorial investigation into the most serious alleged crimes of former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Richard B. Cheney, the attorneys formerly employed by the Department [...]

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Lessig leaves Stanford for Harvard

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 12, 2008

It’s all explained here. He’s taken an appointment at Harvard Law School and accepted the Directorship of Harvard’s Safra Center. Timely. We have to start somewhere building ethics back into our cultural framework. Why not start now, as the economy is crashing around us and people are reminded that the greed is good crowd deserve [...]

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McCain, Bill Ayers, Social Democracy

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 20, 2008

I received an email today from a disturbed nanotech geek working on a government grant at some state school down south. He said it was okay for me to post his message. Here it is: as a university professor, I understand the liberal viewpoint of many of my colleagues.. However, I FIND THIS PETITION /DISGUSTING [...]

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