2018 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Rear your children to behave in a polite manner.
Thus doth the NRA’s campaign for courtesy etch another bullet point in its presentation.
Russian Impulses, One More Time 0
Shorter S. E. Cupp: Well, he went and did it.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Badtux cuts through the sophistry about “birthright citizenship.” An excerpt:
Opposition to birthright citizenship by Republicans is often claimed to be about immigration.
It isn’t. This is good ole’ fashioned neo-Confederate pining for the return of slavery.
Follow the link to see why he says that.
Geeking Out 0
RealPlayer playing on Windows Seven running in VirtualBox in seamless mode on Slackware 14.2 under the Fluxbox window manager. Note that you can see both the Windows menu from the virtual machine and the Fluxbox menu from the host machine. By the way, it’s a legit paid for and registered copy of Windows Seven.
That Sinking Feeling 0
Thom and his guest discuss the accelerating effects of climate change.
Russian Impulses 0
I recommend Bob Cesca’s interview with Malcolm Nance highly. Nance has predicted the Trumpling almost step-by-step and offers a sophisticated and detailed analysis of how the Russians compromised Trump.
It is not a fun listen, but it is an important one. Pop in your podplayer and listen to it as you run your errands.
It may even help answer the question raised in this post from Shaun Mullen.
Fatal Attraction 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Portland Press-Herald struggles to understand white working class voters’* fealty to Donald Trump. A nugget; follow the link for the rest:
But why have the middle class and poor supported this? Is it because their fear of “the others” has blinded them to this picking of their pockets?
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*Hint: The key word in the preceding phrase is “white.”
All the News that Fits 0
In response to a caller, Thom theorizes that the major TV news networks practice selective interviewing as regards persons they put forward as “Democratic spokespersons.”
Full Disclosure:
I do not have a strong opinion on this, as I gave up on television news years ago, as it became a parade of substance-less blather and staged talking heads in boxes shouting over each other. I get most of my news the old fashioned way.
I read stuff.
Frankly, I think the lack of substance and the “both sides do it” narrative are more pernicious than who gets on what interview shows, but that’s just me.
WYSIGWYG 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., points out that Donald Trump is exactly what he appears to be, that no one who pays attention can credibly claim to be shocked, shocked, I say, at what took place in Helsinki. A snippet:
The man who thought Colin Kaepernick unpatriotic for kneeling could not bring himself to stand up for his country.
The man who insults, berates and belittles our allies could not bring himself to rebuke one of our greatest adversaries.
The man who sees threats in the eyes of Honduran children could see no threat in a murderous tyrant with nuclear arms.
Do please read the rest.