I still gots me a bad case of the brain-block, which caused me to post an entry both on the royal wedding (ick. did i really do that?!) and my hair. I was just scouring the internet for something, anything to write about.

Luckily, the online publications seem to be suffering from the same mental inertia as myself. The lead story in today’s Slate is a history of breast enhancement, told in patent drawings. Salon’s headline story in an in depth article about some guy proselytizing the word of stretching one's own penis.

Now, you may think this is about to become a diatribe attacking the media for not delivering substantive news for a truth hungary public. Hardly. I generally leave it to the assholes on the left and the right to cry and whine about media failings and bias whenever it’s painfully obvious that the media is dismissive of their ideas and opinions because they’re typically, well, more trivial and insubstantial than the views of the mainstream media itself. If you happen to be one of those who feel enraged that the media views the world differently than you, you're probably HEAVILY biased yourself.

Besides, Slate and Salon are not hard news publications anyway. Slate typically concentrates on the most trivial aspects of the hard news stories the rest of the media try to pretend to be “fair and balanced” on, not that is in any way a criticism. Salon, on the other hand, is exclusively an Every-Asshole-Has-An-Opinion publication. Every single story twists and manipulates facts in an attempt to support the thesis of the author. Usually, that asshole is representative of the left, but the editors go out of their way to publish right-wing assholes so the editors too can cry and whine whenever they get called out for having an opinion, as though having an opinion is even a criticism... ESPECIALLY for a publication like Salon.

Anyway, enough of that. I just want to say I’m happy to see that today at least, Salon and Slate are focusing on the kind of news story that I like to read, complete with graphics of weights dangling from men’s testicles and 19th century pictographs of twisted, manipulated and constrained women’s breasteses.

Go Media!