The Pentagon Sez

O What Fun We Have With CNN

The UN could not find any of the following weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. However, the good folk in the media are all too willing to list them as absolute fact in their snazzy charts summing up the various weapons involved in this war.

The chart below has been tactically extracted from one found on CNN. In our ongoing emergency media watch, we at PBBBS, in conjunction with the good folks at PBBBS News Corps, felt it necessary and informative to focus on various and seemingly mundane aspects of this chart. (Note: Links within the chart have been disabled by the editors to protect our readers from propaganda.)

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Daily Cupcake 'O Justice

Anyway that's a large part of what economics is—people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful.

— Kim Stanley Robinson