Too Venal for Words category archive
The Maddening Maddened Crowd
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Yet another (particularly vile) example that “social” media isn’t.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
They are fiendlier than ever before.
Facebook Frolics 0
The Zuckerborg is a soulless monster.
And, in further proof that “social” media isn’t, there’s Florida Woman.
The Clown Prince . . . 0
. . . but even clowns can be dangerous.
In 2016, he thought he was not elected, but anointed. He intends to regain his imaginary throne by any means possible.
And far too many of the polity happily volunteer as his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers, wallowing happily in the hate-full-ness.
Not that I have strong feelings on this matter or anything like that . . . .
Judicial Rebuke 0
Judge ridicules Donald Trump’s trumped up RICO suit against Hilary Clinton.
Here’s a bit from the report:
Follow the link for said distillation.
Water Deviltry 0
Nor any brain to think . . . .
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But a new report from Votebeat and the Texas Tribune shows that the harassment and threats that ultimately drove Gillespie County’s elections department staffers to leave their jobs stemmed specifically from activists invested in conspiracies related to fluoride in local drinking water.
We are a society of stupid.
Details at the link.
A Pile Up On the Disinformation Superhighway
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SFGate’s Katie Dowd details the destruction.
Doing It the Old Fashioned Way 0
I have learned that, as phone companies have increasingly yielded to customer pressure to become more vigilant in blocking car warranty scammers, the scammers have taken to the mails.
Yesterday, I received a letter from a company I’ve never heard of (“Endurance”) warning me that the “extended service plan” that I never purchased was about to expire . . . .
Be forewarned.
(Gramatikal error correxted.)
The Medicine Show 0
At The American Scholar, Colin Dickey reports on the fantastically lucrative patent medicine industry. It is a fascinating read. Here’s bit:
The dietary supplement industry, of which Moon Juice is just one small portion, sells (according to one estimate) some $35 billion in products per year to consumers in the United States alone. Brands with names like Nature’s Bounty and Purity Products advertise everything from squid oil to chromium to the monkey head mushroom, and all of it is made possible by those two sentences—repeated over and over again, printed on millions of labels in tiny fonts, ritually intoned until their meaning has been obliterated.
Barnum was wrong.
There’s more than one born every minute.
(Spellink erorrs correxted.)
“With Liberty and Justice for Some . . . .” 0
Bryan Clark finds the recent Supreme Court ruling in Shinn v. Martinez Ramirez troubling. Here’s a bit of his article; the rest is at the link.
And not because the court has weighed the evidence for and against guilt and come to the conclusion that the man is guilty. (The latest court to review the evidence in the case concluded he probably couldn’t be found guilty of anything.)
The court is pushing to execute him because it says the evidence showing he is innocent should not be considered at all.
