A Vulpine View

Look into those eyes and get a dose of serotonin for today.

Hagen. Dan Hagen

An interview of mine with Jim Lawrence, who wrote the James Bond newspaper comic strip as well as radio dramas like the Green Hornet, is featured in this book. It's based on material from an article in David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview magazine.

Yet Another Splash of Serotonin

This is becoming a theme

Another Splash of Serotonin

You're already smiling. Now relax and breathe.

Target Price

By Dan Hagen

Stationing armed guards in every school in America will not prevent mass shootings, but if the NRA likes the idea, fine.

The American taxpayer should not bear the considerable cost, however. Let the plan be paid for by the gun industry, in the form of a heavy surcharge on all weapons and ammunition sold in this nation.

Let the gun owners of America at least pay in money for the privilege of resisting all sensible regulation of firearms. After all, the rest of us are paying for their obsession in blood.

Let’s see how the NRA, as a wholly owned subsidiary of the blood money gun industry, likes their idea now.

Starts With an "F"

The political philosophy at work eroding the American republic has a name, folks, even though you won't hear it mentioned by the Americans who are busy promoting it, or on the corporate media they control. It starts with an "F."

Let's Try Losing Our Balance

What I wrote about false balance in the American corporate news media:

“If liberals said water was composed of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, while conservatives claimed that water was composed of a single hydrogen atom and two oxygen atoms, the corporate news media would dutifully report their ‘dispute.’ That's how a blind journalistic neutrality permits falsehood to gain dangerous and undeserved ground.”

Here’s what they replied:

Bev Koopman said, “So, if both ‘perspectives’ are presented as equally valid, then the public would be led to believe that there is the very real possibility that the water molecule really was composed of 1.5 hydrogen atoms and 1.5 oxygen atoms, since that conclusion lies somewhere between the two conjectures. Yep, that's journalism in America today.”

Bilmarde said, “And if the liberal told a similar untruth down the line the media would respond with, ‘see, they both lie,’ never mind the fact that the Republicans have uttered 20 unchallenged untruths.”

Jokelly said, “And scientists would be called political hacks with a left-wing agenda who hate America and seek to punish success...”

Roger LeMonde replied, “Nice try, but you are busted. That air of reason you cultivate has a strong bias.” To sum up, the balance of a news article should reflect the weight of the valid evidence, not merely the number of viewpoints or the shrillness of the voices involved. And here's an object lesson in false balance bullshit.