September, 2018 archive
Shoot the Messenger 0
Professors Jennifer E. Moore and Michael J. Socolow look at the recent physical attacks on reporters and their places of work and remind us that Americans have a long history of shooting the messenger when they don’t like the message. A snippet:
From our vantage point as historians in 2018, we can now see this era of objectivity lasted from about 1930 to 2000, beginning with the introduction of broadcast journalism via radio to the emergence of the multichannel cable television universe and the web’s development.
Russian Impulses 0
Shaun Mullen catches us up on this week in the collusion.
Mythology 0
One more time, when you hear persons lament The Lost Cause, ask them what specifically was the cause that was lost.
Suffer the Children 0
One more time: It’s not scripture. It’s Republican policy. For example:
“I am your mommy, papi,” she says in Spanish.
He squirms to get away.
“What is wrong with my son?” she sobs in a heartbreaking video shared by the American Civil Liberties Union.
He doesn’t recognize her. They’ve been separated for more than three months. That’s a lifetime at 3.
Follow the link for more.
Stray Thought 0
Some suggested alternative names for “Grey’s Anatomy.”
- The Bold and the
SuturedBootied. - The Young and the Residents.
- The Edge of Knife.
- As the World Sedates.
- All My Interns.
- Search for Tracheotomy.
- One Life to Give.
Aside:
Someone in this household has become addicted to that show. I concede that it is quite well-written, but, honest to Pete and Betsy both, I’ve worked in some dysfunctional workplaces, but this one tops them all real or imagined.
And it’s survived for 16 seasons.
Furrfu.
Both Sides Not 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., is cautiously hopeful that “both sides do it” might falling out of favor. Here’s a snippet:
. . . neither fairness nor balance requires us to report discredited and disreputable information.
Follow the link for context.
Not Neutrality and the Golden Rule 0
Excerpt:
The people who have the gold make the rules.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness goes on.
One of the hunters saw movement in the brush and fired with a “high-powered rifle,” but instead of hitting a deer, he hit another man in the party in the shoulder, Tognazzini said.
No doubt it was the antlers.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, Brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
All the President’s Minions 0
The Big Blow(hard) 0
What scares me most is that I am certain that Donald Trump believes what he says at the moment he says it, even if he said the exact opposite two minutes earlier (which he also believed the moment he said it). The man is unmoored from fact or truth.
In related news, Florence has already overflowed–all over my in box: Every pol who has my name on a mailing list is sending me advice on how to prepare for Florence to show how much he or she cares about my money.
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
Self-Appointed 0
This is weird:
Crouch said that these people are not Norfolk employees and that the city would never force people to leave evacuation zones. “That’s absolutely a personal decision.”
The city is trying to identify these folks.
Thar He Blows It! 0
In related news, Jay Bookman opines that Donald Trump is a Cat 5 narcissist.