Leave it to the trusted Mr. Sicha to report the astonishing developments of our time. Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain has been reducing steely septuagenarian critics to tears and that “one of New York’s most jaded reporters admitted afterward that he found it impossible to be cynical about the film.”
Year / 2005
Obviously, the Barter System Really Had Cocksucking in Mind
Sync has a story about a 34 year old man who swaps tech support for sexual favors. “One girl didn’t even wait for me to finish the virus scan—she just grabbed me and gave me a blow job,” he said. Apparently, he’s been swamped with responses.
Last Remaining Kernels of Judith Miller’s Credibillity Auctioned Off in New York
Kenneth Tomlinson, Another Neocon Hypocrite
Remember Kenneth Tomlinson? The guy who launched a $10,000 study to look into the purported liberal bias of Now with Bill Moyers. Well, it seems that Tomlinson himself broke federal law by bringing in more conservative voices to tilt PBS’s programming to the right, violating the ethical standards set forth by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. Apparently, Tomlinson couldn’t practice what he preached.
Interestingly enough, Tomlinson resigned as a board member earlier in the month shortly after all this chicanery was unearthed by Corporation for Public Broadcasting Inspector General Kenneth Konz. While there are no criminal penalties for Tomlinson’s unethical conduct, if there is any justice in the world, I sincerely hope that Tomlinson will be found working at an Arby’s somewhere.
SciFiction Plaudits
Gwenda points to the ED SF Project, which has people writing appreciations of stories published in SciFiction.