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The Misdirection Playbook 0
In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kevin McDermott reveals the playbook (emphasis added):
It’s (the misdirection play–ed.) also a central component of conservative politics today.
If you’re under the impression that the biggest issues facing America are things like transgender participation in sports, school curriculum and the M&Ms cartoon spokespeople — and not the fact that the Republican Party is methodically working to relieve the rich of any responsibility whatsoever for funding the government, while putting the bill on the rest of us — you’re being played.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
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The Crypto Con 0
Hal Crowther tries to make sense of the crypto-con. He focuses on Sam Bankman-Fried, whose FTX crypto exchanged failed suddenly and spectacularly, but his serves to cast light on the entire–you can’t call it an industry, can you?–endeavor.
His article is well worth a read. Here’s the opening (emphasis added):
QOTD 0
Tony Shalhoub, in the voice of Antonio Scarpacci:
Gaze fondly upon today, for tomorrow is bound to suck worse.
The Crypto Con 0
Where were Crockett and Tubbs when Miami needed them?
Metastatic Malignancy 0
Robert Reich has qualms about Facebook’s Meta’s and Twitter’s decisions to allow Trump back on their platforms. A snippet; follow the link for the rest of his thoughts on this matter.
With due respect to Nick Clegg, this is rubbish. Trump is far worse than an ugly politician. He’s a dangerous traitor to American democracy.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
At NJ.com, Keith E. Benson points out that the right-wing’s ginned up outrage over critical race theory (which, again, is a graduate-level subject not taught in primary and secondary schools) is part of a long pattern. Here’s a tiny bit of his article:
Under cover of opposing CRT, the right and the racists they wish to rally have gone farther. As noted elsewhere in these electrons, they are using CRT as a smokescreen to whitewash (a most appropriate term) America’s history of slavery and discrimination against and exploitation of black persons and other minorities. They want to go back to teaching the same sort of sanitized history that I was taught in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, in Virginia’s segregated school system.
“The Sociopath Party” 0
Thom catalogs the crazy.
If You Don’t Talk about It, It Didn’t Happen 0
Shevrin Jones decodes Florida Man’s code. A bit of the translation (emphasis added):
I commend the entire article to your attention.
The Crypto Con 0
How it works, spelled out in pictures.