2016 archive
Light Bloggery 0
Out and about.
Detritus 0
Jim Wright looks at the first week of Trumpery and is less than impressed. A snippet:
Follow the link, read the rest, then weep for my country.
Next, don’t give up.
Facebook Frolics 0
Froma Harrop has had enough of the Zuckerborg. A snippet:
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Patrick Rael points out what should be obvious.
Read the rest.
Stray Thought 0
Donald Trump seems to be acting as if winning the Electoral College tally in the recent popular vote is akin to a successful hostile corporate takeover.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
John Romano considers an incident in a Florida school and looks for some hope.
The incident.
And yet there it was this month on the wall of a girl’s bathroom at an Orlando-area high school. It warned blacks to start picking out their slave numbers and was gleefully punctuated by “KKK 4 lyfe.”
Below it, in larger letters, was a final thought:
“Go Trump 2016.”
Follow the link and decide whether he found any hope.
Twits on Twitter 0
Jack Ohman twits the twitter-in-chief.
Framing 0
Notice how, when Not White people do it, it’s “heroin” and when white people do it, it’s “opioids”?
The Reality Show Presidency 0
Phillip Lopate argues that the election postmortems are missing the point. It’s not anger that was the primary motivation of Trump voters; it was the desire for entertainment and excitement. They became a willing audience to his reality show. He also makes some interesting points about what makes a phony scamdal a successful political scandal.
Here’s just a tiny little bit of his article.
And there is also the excitement of hating.
My own take is this: In the phrase, “white working class” of which the punditocracy has become so fond, “working class” is not the operative. The operative word is “white.”
Aside:
I have no patience with the nattering about whether more visits to this state or that state, different nuance on platform statements, and the like might have changed the results. This election was not a strategic failure on the part of a candidate or a campaign.
It was a moral failure on the part of the voters and, perhaps especially, of the non-voters.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Do not let politeness take a back seat to anything.
Harrison said Judd accidentally caused the loaded weapon to discharge. The projectile struck the seat and then struck Alyssa Glosson in the back of the head.
The story says no charges will be filed because Hey! Stuff Happens.
