September, 2016 archive
Up against the Wall 0
Of course, if LePage wasn’t such a jerk, some other outcome would have been likely, however it might have been spun.
Samuel Johnson Was Right 0
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel In related news, David Niose questions attempts to “instill” patriotism. A snippet:
Such conditioning is neither necessary nor healthy, and as a society we should rethink it. Just ask Colin Kaepernick, the NFL player who unleashed a public outcry after respectfully dissenting from the national anthem. For doing nothing more than sitting out a ceremonial song at the start of a football game, Kaepernick has been called a traitor and worse. Or ask Bradford Campeau-Laurion, who was once ejected from Yankee Stadium for having the audacity to use the seventh-inning stretch to visit the men’s room rather than sing “God Bless America.” Such hostile responses to mild gestures of dissent show not a healthy patriotism but an aggressive, chauvinistic nationalism.
When Will White Folks Stop Lying to Themselves? 0
Tony Norman points out that it was called “slave labor” for a reason.
Left Uncovered 0
Dick Polman considers a story that he considers woefully underreported: An actual factual story, not a “cloud” of conjecture that “casts a shadow,” a story of cash on the barrel head.
Trump’s foundation sent the money to Bondi. A month later, Bondi decided not to prosecute . . . .
Meanwhile, Josh Marshall points out that, when it comes to Donald Trump, the corporate media seems to think that his word is his Bondi:
Follow the links for more.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness means that families do things together. For example, they go on spontaneous family outings.
Police said a 911 call reporting a shooting came from residents below the second floor unit of a multi-family apartment building near 500 East and 500 North. The callers told police that soon after the gunshot, two adults ran from the unit above them with a child in their arms.
Charitable Contributions 0
There’s a reason I mark the New York Times’s emails* trying to sell me a subscription as “spam.”
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*I know how they got my old email address. I had the bad judgement to register for an account once, before I realized that any outfit that pays Tom Friedman money has no discernment. How they got my new one . . . .
Drinking Liberally Virginia Beach Thursday 0
Fun and fellowship for liberals. Join us and talk about anything in a relaxed atmosphere. (I’ll be talking about the Chapter Leaders Conference week before last in Philly.
When: Thursday, September 8, 6 p.
Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)
More here.
I Can Never Remember Birthdays 2
This blog turned 11 last week and I didn’t notice.
No Place To Hide 0
Read those permissions carefully, folks. If they think they can get away with it, they will try to get away with it.
The suit [PDF], filed with the Northern California District Court this week, alleges that the Android and iOS versions of the Golden State Warriors App can track and record audio from the handset’s microphone without user notification or permission.
According to the complaint, the app, developed by Signal360, can potentially wirelessly detect so-called beacons in stores to work where you’ve been shopping, and can potentially use the handset’s microphone to pick up signals within the audio of TV adverts, music and broadcasts that are inaudible to the human ear in order to serve them targeting advertisements.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At The Roanoke Times, Demetri Telionis examines how the age of communication became the age of miscommunication.
I have two comments:
Telionis falls into the trap of what driftglass calls “both-siderism” in attempting to portray MSNBC as somehow a leftie equivalent of Fox News. There is no leftie Joe Scarborough at Fox; that MSNBC gives Joe Scarborough a highly-paid sinecure ipso facto removes it from being “the liberal network,” even if it does have some mildly liberal commentators in the evening line-up.
The answer to the question at the end is, “No.”
