Too Venal for Words category archive
Health Care Schmealth Care, Reprise 0
More evidence that it’s all about the Benjamins: Elisabeth Rosenthal dissects the relabeling scam.
A Consummation Devoutly To Be Wished . . . 0
. . . for he was well and truly hoist on his own petard.
Cabinet of Horrors 0
Michael in Norfolk looks at who Trump has announced as nominees for his cabinet positions and argues that anyone who is surprised at them hasn’t been paying attention.
Vaccine Nation, Science Schmience Dept. 0
Steven M. is not sanguine, as he hears more Republicans seem to say
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“Herd immunity.”
Choosing the Dark Side 0
The Washington Post’s slogan is “Democracy dies in darkness.”
The same newspaper that once famously shined a light on the misconduct of Richard Nixon has chosen not to endorse a candidate for president (or, to put it another way, has chosen to go dark) in what might be the most important election since 1860.
Dick Polman offers some thoughts as to why the Post has chosen darkness.
I commend them to your attention.
What’s in a Word? 0
Above the Law’s Joe Patrice reminds us, well, actually, a definition.
It’s All about Baiting the Clicks 0
The Charlotte Observer reports that the whirlwind of lies about the whirlwind appearing on “social” media are seriously interfering with attempts to help victims of the storm. A snippet:
“Those are not true,” Govus said, replying to a question from The Charlotte Observer and The (Raleigh) News & Observer during her county’s daily Helene disaster-response news conference on Zoom.
“And those hurt, because … we have to redivert resources and make sure that our emergency personnel check that off the list. And it may be the fourth time that we’ve done that.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
The Weather Bombers 0
A caller talks about his North Carolinian father-in-law’s refusing to accept aid from FEMA after losing almost everything to hurricane Helene because he believe Trump’s lies.
Via C&L, which has the transcript.
Republican Thought Police 0
Steve M. reports that Florida Governor DeSantis wants to punish a television–an NBC affiliate–station for airing an ad that DeSantis doesn’t like.
Phoning It In 0
Honest to Pete, you couldn’t make this stuff up.
Empty Suits 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye reports that Devin Nunes’s prolific pleadings seem to be proceeding poorly.
