November, 2016 archive
I’m Done for the Day 0
I have to meet a plane.
I’ll likely check in on the returns at TPM from time to time, but I’ll be damned if I’ll turn on a television set.
I’ve had my fill of stupid.
Catch y’all tomorrow.
Afterthought:
The last time I was inside the Norfolk International Airport terminal (I don’t think it was “International” at the time) was so long ago I was accosted by a Moonie.
Remember Moonies?
Vote 0
My Daddy taught me that voting is not a right; it’s a duty.
Two thoughts:
1. Not voting is a vote, perversely, mayhap, but still a vote, a vote to abdicate your responsibility to care about your neighbors, your community, and your polity.
An election at whatever level of government is not about you. It’s about the polity. Abandon it, you abandon the polity.
2. Vote in the real world, because that’s the world where we live–vote not in a fantasy world where perfection is likely or even attainable.
If you choose to vote for someone who doesn’t have a chance of winning, you are choosing option #1, but just dressing it up in Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes to make it seem palatable, but it’s merely a seeming. Behind the seeming is cowardice, fear to take a stand that matters, fear, indeed, to matter.
Your vote is your opportunity to influence. Use it wisely.
A. In the Cabinet. 0
Q. Where should you put your deplorables?
Java Jive 0
Mike marvels at much ado over not much of anything. (Warning: Language.)
Warning: Language.
Afterthought:
I had Starbucks coffee once. I fail to see the attraction.
The Boys in the Bubble 0
Chauncey Devega explores how Fox News pollutes the discourse. A snippet:
CNN and other outlets in the American corporate news media are complicit in perpetuating this alternate reality; they are reluctant to speak plainly about Fox News and its role in disseminating right-wing lies and disinformation because they have been bullied into submission by the myth of the “liberal media.”
The sum effect of this is that CNN and other major American news outlets elevate right-wing talking points and falsehoods to the level of factual “news.” This legitimizes them as now being worthy of inclusion as an “alternative point of view” that should be spoken to in serious discussions of politics. CNN and the so-called liberal media then circulate right-wing propaganda to a broader public outside of the Fox News echo chamber.
Read it.
Twits off Twitter 0
Excerpt:
Apparently his campaign has taken away his Twitter. . . . If somebody starts tweeting at three in the morning because SNL made fun of you, then you can’t handle the nuclear codes.
Via TPM.
The Comey-Upance 0
James Comey confirms that he’s a jerk there was no there there.
And then there’s this from BadTux.
As I was emailing to my brother a couple of days ago, whatever reputation Comey had for integrity is–how shall I put this tactfully?–in tatters, gone, kaput, non-existent, as if it had never happened, a slag heap, a dump, a junk pile, a stinking pile of political hackery, sewer-fuel, a junkyard, a Ford Pinto–I could go on, but you get the point.
He is now the FBI’s own Chris Christie.
Next time you watch a TV show (say, Criminal Minds or reruns of Numb3rs) in which the FBI is sanctified, feel free to enjoy it, but think of James Comey and remind yourself that real life and television shows are two different things.
You’re damned right I’m pissed. Southbound end of a northbound horse.
Video via C&L. Charlie Brown image via Balloon Juice.
Stray Thought 0
Remember, the “Hillary Clinton scamdals” are 99% Fox News lies and one per cent nobody’s perfect.
Dinner Time, Somewhere in NRA Paradise 0