http://brain-terminal.com/posts Edited by Evan Coyne Maloney Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:00:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Much has been written already about Andrew Breitbart and his life at the intersection of culture, media and politics. So instead, I will tell you a story about how Andrew Breitbart and I ended up at a Devo concert. I first met Andrew in Los Angeles about 8 years ago, at ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2012/03/01/my-trip-on-the-andrew-breitbart-reality-tour Recently, I brought a camera and a few multiple-choice questions to Zuccotti Park, where I conducted a quiz game with some of the Occupy Wall Street protesters. As a reward for getting the answers right, contestants were able to choose among several options for prizes. Unfortunately, one gentleman in the ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2011/11/07/my-heavily-edited-video-of-a-good-natured-stroll-amongst-the-occupiers-of-zuccotti-park-which-is-a-few-blocks-north-and-slightly-to-the-west-of-wall-street-in-new-york-city InsideAcademia.tv's Andy Nash recently interviewed me via Skype, and the interview is now available online: We discuss the history of campus political correctness, what inspired me to make the film Indoctrinate U, and the effects of the continued politicization of academia. http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2011/10/10/insideacademia-tv-interview Remember: This website was barely three weeks old when the attacks happened, and at the time, I wrote about what it was like to be in New York City that day, and the day after. And over the weeks that followed, friends and online acquaintances sent me pictures to post online, each ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2011/09/09/a-video-memorial-for-september-11th-2001a-video-memorial-for-september-11th-2001 1992/2008: A charismatic Democrat portraying himself as a centrist is elected President. 1992-1994/2008-2010: Democratic President sheds centrist image by tacking to the left during his first two years. 1993: Democratic President fails at getting his signature healthcare restructuring bill passed. / 2010: Democratic President succeeds at getting his signature healthcare restructuring bill ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/11/03/a-fork-in-the-road Not too long ago, taking to the streets to protest your government was considered a patriotic act. It's true! But it seems that publicly airing your grievances stopped being patriotic right around noon on January 20th, 2009. Once President Obama was sworn in, protesting became incitement to violence. If you've opened up a newspaper ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/03/31/a-trip-down-memory-lane When Barack Obama decided to launch his political career in the living room of unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, he tacitly endorsed using violence as a political tactic. And when two staunch allies of the Democratic Party--the SEIU and ACORN--drove busloads of protesters to the private homes of AIG executives, ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/03/25/once-they-encouraged-the-pitchforks-now-democrats-are-frightened-of-them As relayed by Stephen Bainbridge: One day shortly after the Second World War ended, Winston Churchill and Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee encountered one another at the urinal trough in the House of Common's men's washroom. Attlee arrived first. When Churchill arrived, he stood as far away from him ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/31/winston-churchill-quote-of-the-day The Photo of the Day, via Don Surber: Photo credit: Robert Philabaum http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/28/bargain-bin-hope-and-change The New York Times is on the receiving end of a very good point: To the Editor: In "The Court's Blow to Democracy" (editorial, Jan. 22), you strenuously disagree with the proposition that "corporations are just like people and entitled to the same First Amendment rights." Every day, The New York Times Company ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/25/letter-of-the-day Two weeks ago, I wrote, "Democrats losing Ted Kennedy's seat would be a massive political earthquake." Well, yesterday, the once-unthinkable happened, and the deep blue state of Massachusetts elected its first Republican senator since 1972. Today, politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle will be spinning, assigning blame, and ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/20/assessing-the-massachusetts-senate-race Another tale from the annals of government competence: Someone is getting called for jury duty...but it's no human. A family is trying to figure out how their pet cat was summonsed for jury duty. [...] [The cat's] owners, Guy and Anna Esposito, think they may know the source of the mix up: [the cat] ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/11/a-furry-jury-of-your-peers CBS News reports: Less than a month after major Nidal Hasan allegedly killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, the Pentagon's top intelligence officer sent the White House a report detailing an earlier failure to connect the dots. It reads like a dress rehearsal for the Detroit bomber case, reports CBS ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/08/why-wars-shouldnt-be-fought-in-court My documentary film Indoctrinate U--which analyzes the attacks on free speech and free thought on politically correct college campuses--will be shown on the Documentary Channel two more times in the coming weeks. The first airing will be Thursday, December 10th at 2:50PM (Eastern). The second showing is on Friday, December 18th at ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/12/05/indoctrinate-u-on-tv-two-more-times Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto noticed something interesting about the priorities of the Associated Press: An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We'd like to compare this dispatch to the AP's dispatch earlier this week "fact checking" Sarah Palin's ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/11/20/press-priorities As a bit of a typography geek, I laughed at myself for having noticed many of the things mentioned in this New York Times article. (The sloppy spacing of the word "lean" on that subway sign has always annoyed me.) I posted a link to the Times piece on my Facebook ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/11/17/font-memories Yesterday, two states held elections for governor. Last year, both states voted to elect President Obama. Now, a year after The Ascension of The One, in both states, Republican gubernatorial candidates won handily. In Virginia, Republican candidate Bob McDonnell beat Democrat Creigh Deeds by more than 17%.* This in a recently-trending-Democrat ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/11/04/2009-elections-had-nothing-to-do-with-obama From an e-mail that's been circulating recently, the Joke of the Day: Al Gore, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama go to heaven. God addresses Gore first. "Al, what do you believe in?" Gore replies: "Well, I believe that I won that election, but that it was your will that I did not serve. ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/11/02/gore-clinton-and-obama-in-heaven According to the NAACP, white politicians should not be permitted to represent majority-black voting populations: Leaders of the Maryland NAACP, worried that a Baltimore mayor's criminal conviction could result in the appointment of a white or Republican leader who may not fully represent the majority black and Democratic city, are asking ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/10/16/a-perfect-example-of-politically-correct-bigotry In the summer of 2008, I noticed something I'd never seen before. All around midtown Manhattan, on various sidewalks, people were selling cheap plastic trinkets out of open briefcases propped atop folding tray tables. To anyone who's spent any time in New York City--where makeshift sidewalk vendors are more plentiful than ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/10/13/the-rise-and-fall-of-obamamarketing Daniel Okrent, the former public editor of the New York Times, recently made some interesting comments on his old employer and the media in general. Some highlights: [T]here is a shortage of conservatives working in the news media -- or, I should say, an imbalance between liberals and conservatives. The last ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/09/30/former-new-york-times-editor-discusses-media-bias Americans are aware that many reporters actively promote their own political agendas: Results from a national Sacred Heart University survey released today reveal that many news consumers believe the media played a significant role in electing President Barack Obama and that the media continue to promote his presidency. [...] "A large majority, ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/09/28/americans-wise-to-the-news-medias-game Jon Stewart is pretty funny going after the media in this clip: Best quote: [W]here were the real reporters on this story? You know what investigative media, see me on camera three: Where the hell were you? [...] You're telling me that two kids from the cast of "High School Musical III" can ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/09/19/jon-stewart-kicks-medias-ass-on-acorn-scandal Remembering September 11th, 2001 in video: ...and text. http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/09/11/remember The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has placed Bucknell University on their Red Alert list, which names the schools that are the "worst offenders against liberty": Institutions on the Red Alert list are unrepentant offenders against basic rights that are guaranteed either by the U.S. Constitution or the schools themselves, ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/09/10/ray-bucknell-my-alma-mater-in-worst-offenders-against-liberty-list