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August 23, 2010 – Another correction! My apologies – the issue of Permaculture Activist I alluded to last week was the Autumn issue, not the Summer. Just when I think the Republicans might not be hell-bent on se lf destruction after all, the sound of the misinformation machine clanking away brings me to my se n se s. All this non se n se about a mosque planned for ground zero, when it’s a community center being built many blocks away. (The imam has been a friend to the United States , helping both the Bush and Obama administrations.) Then there’s that idiotic story about Obama’s ostensibly hard-to-figure-out religious convictions surfacing again. Do we actually have to SEE the media in bed with the R’s to understand what’s going on here? When did newspapers, television, and radio begin running stories ba se d on the (admittedly fascinating) question, “Guess what the Republicans are alleging today?” If there ever was a mystery about why readership and audience...