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Show THE ZEPHYR! DECEMBER 2008-J ANUARY 2009 Cyber sleuths know not to trust random data. The e-mail is a well known chain letter dating from 2001 that currently enjoys “junk” status for both efficacy, and accuracy. You'd REPORTING be better off watching “All My Children” reruns than investing in this hokum. But, hey — it's your time to waste! from the... Exhibit B: Trillions of jiggly bits of data have belched forth in the name of Election 2008. Much of it from the mainstream media, which from all accounts is, in fact, something of a sinking ship. So why not lie, cheat, steal, and be stupid ina a last ditch effort to save the stockholdSS ‘s doubtful that any election coverage in U.S. istry has been faneied as badly as be one featuring Messieurs McCain and Obama. Even insiders are grousing over the shameless lack of objectivity in Election 08's coverage: “The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling.” So sayeth Michael Malone, over yonder at ABC News. According to sources, Malone is one of the nation’s best-known technology writers, oe of the “New York Times,” and other oye SPACEof HISTORY erudite news rags. notes from NED se desk from a Google Search.... oa MUDD Buy green and still be chic- Interiors, House & Home - The ...Oliver Heath is busy. In addition to his main job as an interior designer, he has a website selling products that all have to be both beautiful and ... There is no bottom to the well that is the Dimformation Age. Homo erectus asphaltus, in our many guises, has yet to create anything approaching the sheer foolishness that is our current state of affairs: culture masquerading as a fully clothed Emperor en route to the Ball of Naked Freaks and Sycophantic Holograms. Go ahead, make disgruntled protestations; assert that the Mad Scribe of Zephyric Musings is off on another tangential neuro-infarction; but the _ Page is mine, and I planeto make esced use of the ink while the presses still run. Let's get empirical, at ile for a few fonts. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/nhouse-and-home/interiors/buygreen-and-still-be-chic-968289.html - 74k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this - But who needs objectivity in the Land of the Free? Better yet, who's actually paying attention to the media these days? Besides a hundred million couch potatoes with the transfat blues. Did I say that? Did I just toss a subjective turd into the a of the blog-o-sphere? Of course I did. It's a safe bet that Americans have simply lost the ability to make sense of their own Exhibit A: Irecently received an e-mail that, for practical purposes (what other purposes are there in the exchange of Information, truth, and cyber-justice?) appeared to be a genuine and well-intentioned call for social action in the name of American Do-Goodism. The fact that the sender of said “letter” was an old acquaintance simply sweetens the narrative. reality. And while this situation inevitably leads to the singularity at the bottom of the The plea concerned a call to boycott specific oil companies in the name of everything cultural black hole in which we now find ourselves, the karma of our implosion is so green and globally |correct. ‘The gist of the e-mail, whose provenance was clearly mass - spam bedevilment, goes like this: In America’s struggle to free itself from the evils of Middle Eastern oil, we should band together in a mass boycott various major oil conglomerates ‘who procure a majority of their dinosaur juice from such sunny locales as the nefarious Saudi Arabia. Think Shell, Mobil, and Exxon (“Remember the Valdez!) and obvious as to be painfully embarrassing. The ideathat the world’s: most imitated-nation (yup— that’s us) could morph into a miasmic jungle of banality would have seemed unthinkable a’‘mere generation ago. Imagine our young soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy in‘the name of Wal-Mart and a Big Mac with double cheese. ~ Then again, the Founders of our great experiment in democracy knew full well that the game is inherently fraught with peril, namely in the form of human nature. But, little did they guess to whatoe a culture i! oo around constimerism could sink. Or did they? y a you're at the right pump. Further, itis claimed that other household names, such as Citgo, Hess, and Sunoco, and I quote, “do not import Middle Eastern oil.” Doesn’t it warm the heart to know that at least a few members of the Big Oil Klub are doing the right thing? I know I felt measurably better after finding t that out— and all from an unsolicited flock of _cyber--bits! re The progenitor ‘of said alert claimed that, with the effortless power of e--mail, 300 million folks could get in on the action in a mere eight days. Imagine that- ‘push a button and we're freed from the ravages of geopolitical meltdown in just over a week. Egads! Exhibit C: “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” Ben Franklin BRAVE NEW WEST... the documentary film from HIGH PLAINS FILMS is now available on DVD http://www.highplainsfilms.org/fp_brave.html “The movie transcends the story of Stiles, and at its heart, it’s about the devastation of loss and irreversible change, about finding kinship in this big strange world and about gathering the strength to do what you think is important even when discouragement is everywhere.” — Telluride The Daily Planet Critics’ “Best Bet” - St. Louis Post Dispatch “A captivating film that succeeds in telling the story of the self-described hermit who has, over time, inspired a small cult following of his own the high desert of the Southwest. Stiles lives and works in unapologetic adherence to the Zephyr’s slogan—“Clinging Hopelessly to the Past” —and filmmakers Doug Hawes-Davis and Drury Gunn Carr give viewers a wonderful look into the day-to-day life of the activist publisher who long-ago settled in Moab. Through his cartoons and self-deprecating humor, Stiles manages to exude a resilient attitude and a feeling that all is not lost. The filmmakers in turn feed off that, producing this entertaining portrait of one of Southwest's most eccentric characters.” Newwest.net 22 |
