A Modest Proposal to Promote Domestic Tranquility

Opinion Forum ^ | May 20, 2010 | Dan Miller

[DanMiller]

Huff and Puff and down fall the houses of falsehood

Here [link] is a truly fascinating article from Huffington Post by Jim Taylor, PhD in psychology and lecturer at the University of San Francisco, a well known bastion of unbiased intellectual thought. Mr.* Taylor complains that the sources of information nowadays are too many, too prolific and too motivated by politics and/or ideology, and that we lack the resources, intellectual and otherwise, to distinguish “facts” from “falsehoods” and from opinion. President Obama recently said much the same. They are, of course, [right] correct.

[DanMiller]

The notion of a Government Department of Information, presented in the Huffington Post article, whether intended ironically or otherwise, is so consistent with governmental efforts to control information and disparage those who disagree with it that it deserves a satirically adverse commentary.

[GladesGuru]

“...it deserves a satirically adverse commentary.”

And did it ever get one!

Just as a suggestion, all too many seem not to function without a /sarc or some other indication not to take that which preceded too seriously.

You wouldn’t want to induce unnecessary hyperventilation, would you?

[wintertime]

The federal government should create a Department of Information .
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Hm?...Sounds suspiciously like the Ministry of Truth.