May, 2016 archive
National PTSD 0
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Thom rambles his way to a damn good point.
Listen up, y’hear.
Kristolizing #NeverTrump 0
Shorter Dick Polman: Bill Kristol is always wrong.
Earned or Deserved? 0
At The Charlotte Observer, Eric Frazier looks at Donald Trump’s campaign and wonders whether Americans really are as dumb as their international reputation. A snippet:
When I asked why that’s a bad thing, she said the foreign exchange kids tend to presume Americans are stupid unless proven otherwise. They assume Americans aren’t as well-traveled, or as fluent in foreign languages or as knowledgeable about world cultures.
I said what any Good American would: Why don’t they stay home, then?
Oh, she replied, they don’t think our colleges are stupid. Just the people.
Flagging Interest (Updated) 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
Aside:
I too get irritated when I see persons show disrespect to the United States flag under the delusion that violating the flag code is somehow a display of patriotism–it is indeed perhaps my most pet peeve–but I don’t steal their flags. Or their tee shirts. Or their greasy hair rags.
What such persons display is often not patriotism. Rather, it’s patriotism’s drunken, violent cousin, jingoism.
Addendum, the Next Week:
North Carolina’s Trojan Toilets 0
Thom and a caller discuss some of the implications of North Carolina’s “It’s Okay To Hate the Gay” law, such as capping the minimum wage, implications that have received little notice in the furor over bodily functions.
Variety Homogeneity Vacationland
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At the Raleigh News & Observer, Jai Kumar, immigrant son of immigrant parents currently attending graduate school at UNC, cuts to the essence of North Carolina’s wingnuttery. A snippet:
Read the rest.
Facebook Frolics 0
Froma Harrop, reacting to the recent right-wing charges that Facebook is somehow jiggering its news feeds to favor liberal points of view,* finds a larger issue (emphasis added):
Whether the charges are true or not, Facebook is a private company entitled to dish out the news as it chooses. What disturbs me more is that a not-very-skeptical public is more and more willing to submit to a single source for news.
Her comments about Facebook as a “single source of news” apply doubly to Fox News as a single source of news. If it is true that Facebook from time to time has tilted the news–and I have no basis for even guessing, as I avoid Facebook whenever possible and wouldn’t consider it a source of news in any event–Fox routinely upends the news.
Follow the link for more.
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*The true problem facing the right is that, if coverage is unbiased, the facts lean left.
A Ticket To Rude 0
One more time, persons who complain about “political correctness” want nothing more than license to be offensive without penalty.
