Strawmen Fighting

I posted and laughed at a strawman yesterday, so it follows that one of the blogs I frequent had to post about Sheryl Crow as a typical example of crazy conservationist hysteria.

I started this blog as a forum to discuss politics in a reasonable fashion, without any of those logical fallacies so common in too many forms of media. Under the auspices of humor, I posted the daylight savings = global warming strawman and had a little joke of it. I would say that The Daily Show uses strawmen in a similar way (albeit far more effectively), but is pretty darn clear that they are using humor and a plethora of self-deprecating commentary. What kills me are the people who build their careers on strawmen, with complete and utter seriousness.

Cheers

Here's to hoping this doesn't become another blog full of good intentions but left to deletion due to inactivity.