November, 2016 archive
And Now for Something Completely Different 0
You can hear a lengthy interview with Francois Rautenbach, the narrator, at Hacker Public Radio.
(Errant tag fixed.
In the close link notation for the embed, there was an errant “i” tag.
i./a
In HTML 4.0, em is the new i. I didn’t know that “i” tags still worked! I thought they had been, as the geeks say, “deprecated.”)
Trumpling the Privatization Scam 0
These people do not believe in the existence of a common good.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Core Values Dept. 2
Over at Delaware Liberal, Evey shreds to pretense of the “Alt-Right” to be anything other than what they are: the latest attempt of the Secesh to repackage themselves. A snippet (emphasis in the original):
That sentence is nothing more than a thinly, thinly veiled* attempt to sanitize racism.
Read the whole thing.
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*I would argue that it’s not “thinly veiled,” merely paraphrased.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is essential in a process of learning.
Droning On 0
Once more, it’s only a matter of time . . . .
At one point, Joseph Roselli allegedly flew the drone as high as 1,500 feet, which is restricted for use by Philadelphia International Airport.
Roselli was charged with risking a catastrophe and recklessly endangering another person, court records show.
Aside:
I was in my local drug store the other day. They had quadcopters for sale on the toy rack.
Thinking is a lost art.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Will Bunch, who is definitely one of the good guys (I have one of his books), muses on what’s wrong with reportage. His conclusions may not be what you expect. A snippet (emphasis added):
Many of the journalists and outside critics who’ve talked about the failures of journalism since Trump’s election have touched on some or all of these factors. But most of the media criticism has come up bone dry when it comes to solving these problems — because almost all of this conversation takes place in the tiny, suffocating box of stale journalism ideas that have slowly been choking the profession for decades.
Interregnum: Is Is the End of “The West”? 0
Der Spiegel wonders who will will the void. A nugget:
One hundred years later: Trump.
Trump, who wants nothing to do with globalization; Trump, who preaches American nationalism, isolation, partial withdrawal from world trade and zero responsibility for a global problem like climate change. And all of this after a perverse election campaign marked by resentment, racism and incitement.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still not bad.
(snip)
The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, declined to 253,500 from 260,000 in the prior week.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits dropped by 66,000 to 1.98 million in the week ended Nov. 5. The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits fell to 1.4 percent from 1.5 percent. These data are reported with a one-week lag.
Wait six months.
