A lowly cog in a big media machine, Nunzia Rider thinks her colleagues should be speaking truth to power and calling bullshit, challenging the conventional wisdom instead of going along with it.

Nunzia likes kick-ass rock’n'roll music and the Dixie Chicks, Ralph Vaughn Williams and slow blues, Sheryl Crow and Bob Dylan old and new. And Amy Winehouse, although she cringes every time that name crosses the wire.

She thinks modern politics is sublimely absurd and that we should all laugh at it as much as possible. In her spare time, she creates voodoo spells aimed at forcing her employer to stop pretending obvious idiots have anything useful to say on a national stage.

Oh, and she is a dirty miscreant hippie. Just look at those shifty eyes. And you may have known here when she was The News Writer. But she likes having an actual name, even if it’s not actually hers.

Here’s five Web sites she really likes:

• Hullabaloo
• International Political Will
• Orcinus
• Republic of T
• Yellow Doggerel Democrat

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