Too Venal for Words category archive
Stray Thought, Corporate Conquest Dept. 0
Americans are demonstrating that they will willingly submit to corporate Big Brothers if it means they can turn on their coffee pots with a voice command before they get to their kitchens.
Southern Heritage 0
(Post fixed.)
From the land of gracious living: Deneen Brown writes of two historians who are trying to compile a complete listing of ads still extant for runaway slaves in the ante bellum South.
Click to see the article with more examples of gracious living.
A web search for “runaway slaves ads” will turn up a number of sites with actual historical facts that the New Secesh want to pretend don’t exist.
Aside:
I must have broken this post when I was troubleshooting the sidebar issue.
Ryan’s Derp, Return of Beyond the Palin Dept. 0
David Ruth explains that fantastical things sometimes come to pass.
This is probably the inevitable result when laws are cooked up by a speaker of the House of Representatives who has treated the post as if he is president of the Ayn Rand Society.
More at the link.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
Trumpling the public good, this time in the air:
This proposal illustrates once more that, in Republican World, there is no such thing as the common good.
Follow the link for more.
The Core Belief of Today’s Republican Party 0
There is no such thing as the public good. Q. E. D.
The Other Victims of “Fake News” 0
Seattlepi reports on the family of a man whose picture was stolen, falsely labeled (and libeled), and used in a “fake news” story.
It is not pretty, but it does make this clear: those who create and propagate “fake news” (AKA “lies”) don’t care who they hurt, nor how badly they hurt them.
Twits on Twitter 0
Noah Smith thinks he knows what Twitter’s problem may be.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Chris-Crossed 0
I guess Chris Christie will have to cross this bridge when he comes to it.
The story goes to say that Christie is appealing. To whom is unclear Sorry, couldn’t resist.