2016 archive
Digital Pravda? 2
Badtux takes to the command line to track down Wikileaks.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
In a column that starts out in a rather silly way, Josh Gohlke winds to an important point: the Electoral College is a legacy of America’s original sin of chattel slavery. A nugget:
Now that legacy is about to pay off for the Secesh.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness builds strong marriages.
The bullet grazed the wife’s ear and caused no serious injury.
Thus passeth another day in NRA paradise.
Geeking Out 0
For a brief moment, my Windows 7 VirtualBox virtual machine and my Slackware desktop showed the same wallpaper (that’s “background” in Linuxspeak).
All the News that Fits, Reprise 0
Scott Lemieux argues convincingly that the fuss over “fake news” is overblown. He points out that, by and large, viral “fake news” stories preach to the converted. He sees corporate “real news” as the real problem. A snippet:
Follow the link; the whole thing is a three-minute read that is well worth your while.
All the News that Fits 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Edward Wasserman tries to draw some lessons from the corporate media’s coverage of the recent election. Here they are:
- Exposure trumps substance.
- Evenhandedness has its limits.
- Covering politics isn’t just covering politicians.
Follow the link for his explication of each one.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A polite society is a clean society.
If you are cleaning a gun without first making sure it’s unloaded, that’s not an “accident.” That’s negligence.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still under 300k.
Claims have stayed below the 300,000 level for 93 consecutive weeks, the longest stretch since 1970 and typically consistent with an improving job market.
(snip)
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits rose by 11,000 to 2.02 million in the week ended Dec. 3. The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits held at 1.5 percent. These data are reported with a one-week lag.
Enjoy it while it lasts, folks.
