The shocker headline, A US town has rejected a proposal for a solar farm following public concerns that solar panels ‘suck up all the energy from the sun’ is such a good illustration that the word following is a journalistic weasel word that it has been added to the list of ways which so-called journalists (as well as real ones) mislead us here on Monochromatic Outlook. The headline from the primary source reads, Woodland rejects solar farm. The … Read the rest
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s comments during oral arguments1 in Fisher v University of Texas at Austin generated controversy both in news and social media. Some are suggesting that Scalia is revealing himself to be a bigot
Scalia has had these sorts of accusations pointed at him several times, and I’ve found it instructive to seek out the court opinions or arguments from which the comments come. For the most part, the accusations have been completely groundless. For example, he … Read the rest