January, 2019 archive
Starting Points 0
Gina Barreca muses on how to start a conversation. A snippet:
All the News that Fits 0
Using the Wall Street Journal’s recent scathing editorial as a springboard, Will Bunch considers the Donald’s Trumpeting of Russian propaganda regarding Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. After expressing surprise that Donald Trump was paying attention to international relations at the time, Bunch goes on to add context:
That would be Vladimir Putin and his allies in the Russian government.
Follow the link for the rest.
Scaredy Cats 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Rosalind C. Barnett and Caryl Rivers explore the theory then white men are afraid that they are losing out. A snippet:
Henry James echoed this sentiment in his novel of the same era, The Bostonians: “The whole generation is womanized; the masculine tone is passing out of the world; it’s a feminine, a nervous, hysterical, chattering, canting age, an age of hollow phrases and false delicacy and exaggerated solicitudes and coddled sensibilities.”
Today’s closing frontier is not a geographical space but a psychological one. Ever since the founding of the nation, white men–especially straight white Christian men–have been in charge. They have been our presidents, our captains of industry, our generals, our Wall Street titans, and they held all the power. They were the ones in “The room where it happens,” as the Hamilton lyric observes.
Even men who had no wealth or celebrity or grand accomplishments could bask in the glow of white male hegemony. They could at least imagine themselves in those “happening” rooms because all the people there looked like them.
I commend the article to your attention. It raises points worthy of consideration.
More than They Could Chew 0
At the Bangor Daily News, Gordon L. Weil suggests that
He goes on to argue convincingly that both of them are quite wrong. Follow the link to read how he makes his case.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout, in the voice of Archie Goodwin:
One of the brain’s most efficient departments is the one that turns possibilities into probabilities, and probabilities into facts.
Stout, Rex, Too Many Clients (New York: Bantam, 1971), P. 123.
How Far Will Wells Fargo 0
One more time, pretty damned far.
The Lies of the Land 0
Will Bunch wonders why one thing is not like the other thing.
Follow the Money 0
Trump’s political appointees will get raises as federal employees furloughed during the Trump shutdown suffer.
