May, 2018 archive
The Art of the Con, Guiliani Boogaloo Dept. 0
Rudy Guiliani’s ring around the rosy at Fox News raised a lot of eyebrows.
Both Elie Mystal and Mike Littwinn have considered it and reached somewhat different and not incompatible conclusions.
What I have concluded is that Rudy’s boogaloo is not directed at the public at large, but is a PR campaign directed to Fox News and its dupes, symps, and fellow travelers; to Republican Congresspersons; and to Trump’s hardcore of true believers, who have shown themselves willing to believe anything, everything he says, even as his statements directly contradict themselves from minute to minute.
They are intended to concrete the con of the conned.
I fear rough seas ahead.
“Donny Rotten” 0
Sasha Abramsky sees something familiar and yet jarringly dissimilar in the Trumpling. She suggests that it is similar to punk rock, morphed into punk rot.
Trump’s, by contrast, is faux-nihilism from above, the spectacle masking the plutocratic content. It is a grotesque rage of the haves against the have-nots, the moguls against the prols.
Much more at the link.
The March of Progress 0
Or not.
Officials have begun replacing the traditional clocks with digital ones as children have been unable to tell the correct time on analog clocks, The Telegraph reports.
More at the link.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Patrick Rael discusses the theatrical you will pardon the expression white-washing of the Old South.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another reminder that politeness takes practice.
The sheriff said that at the time, a man was using a shotgun to shoot down range, with the 16-year-old standing behind him.
When the first individual took a shot, he dropped the gun on the recoil. When the gun hit the ground, it fired again, and the teen was struck in the stomach and leg with buckshot.
The Lie of the Land and Gullible’s Travails 0
Hey! Rubio! 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., would like some straight answers from Senator Marco.
Ryan’s Derp 0
Tony Norman comments on the firing of House Chaplain Father Patrick Conroy. A snippet:
Follow the link for the rest.