In Lies.com, John Calender has been looking at the war/anti-war nondiologue that's been happening in his town, which is just down the road from mine (I can see it from here), and worries about the intellectual junk food most citizens get from TV news and talk radio:

...what about that nearly 70% of US citizens that are getting their news from the cable news channels? It gets worse with the hard-core fans of right-wing talk radio; these people get a non-stop stream of fantasy entertainment, and a lot of them actually believe it, with scary consequences.

He quotes some plainly wrong letters to the editor in his local paper that have gone unanswered, and adds,

Those of us with access to better sources of information have an obligation to share that information. And not just with the other well-informed folk we interact with online, but with people in our own geographic community who don't have access to those sources.

Well put.

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As the 300th episode of The Simpsons is broadcast today read how it became the world's best TV programme. [Guardian Unlimited]

300! Man, where has time flown?  How can the writers of the show keep it going?