2016 archive
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
In the middle of a longer article about the Petulant Elect’s attempts to intimidate the press, Solomon Jones notes the following, which should be obvious, but seems not to be.
Those actions have consequences, as we’ve seen in the rash of hatred and bigotry that has been unleashed in the wake of Trump’s election. When bigots are emboldened to physically assault women who are wearing a Muslim head covering, or to paint swastikas on walls in Trump’s name, or to threaten black students attending an Ivy League university, America is in danger.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
We are a society of stupid.
Aside:
Ever since I’ve had my little corner of the internet, I’ve standardized embedded media to 500 pixels in width, because, at the time I got it, 800×600 was still a thing. Here’s how I determined the proper settings for this image, which is 640×506 pixels:
Code:
$ echo 500/640*506 | bc -l
395.31250000000000000000
You can’t do that on Windows.
Image via Job’s Anger.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still well under 300k, despite Bloomberg’s scary headline (follow the link to see it).
(snip)
The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, declined to 251,000 — the lowest since the first week of October — from 253,000 in the prior week.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits climbed by 60,000 to 2.04 million in the week ended Nov. 12. The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits ticked up to 1.5 percent from 1.4 percent. These data are reported with a one-week lag.
Wait six months. The unemployment rate will Trumple.
Meta: Don’t Bother 0
If you post a spam comment here at my place, it will be deleted and no one will ever see it.
Go annoy somebody else.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Must have been the little white tail . . . .
Searcy County Sheriff Joey Pruitt said the 29-year-old woman died Tuesday in an “apparent hunting accident.” Her name was not released.
She wasn’t wearing hunting orange, so it probably was her own fault.
Light Bloggery, Contd. 0
Holiday happenings for the next few days.
By Any Other Name . . . . 0
A radio station decides that words matter.
All the News that Fits 0
Will Bunch notes the corporate media’s selective perception. A snippet:
No one should have expected anything different from the media. Why educate readers about “the emolument clause” when the Hamilton story had it all — high theater, literally, and a simmering row between a rainbow coalition of coastal elites (and their beloved smash-hit play) versus a heartland vice president-elect … and his hot-headed boss. Suddenly, Trump’s remarkable fraud settlement and his business conflicts were a Page 17 story. Especially when he piled on by tweeting the next morning about how unfunny Saturday Night Live has become when several skits lampooned him or his supporters.
