2016 archive
Trumpling Political Correctness 0
At the Raleigh News and Observer, Barton Swaim suggests that Trump used political correctness to appeal to his followers by campaigning against it; Swaim suggests that the tactic may well have backfired. Here’s a snippet (emphasis added):
One more time, persons who complain of political correctness demand permission offend without penalty.
Football uber Alles 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire:
I am sick of football. I am no longer fascinated by large men running into each other.
My local rag covers high school games the way it used to cover college games, college games the way it used to cover the pros, and the pros like it’s the only game in town. Honest to Pete, during the wind-up of the regular baseball season when nary a football game had yet been played, stories about what might happen were a football game to be played overwhelmed the coverage of actual other games that had been played.
Full Disclosure:
When I was in high school, I was the statistician for my high school football team. After each home game, I would call my local rag, that same local rag, with the results of the game. I know what the coverage was like. I was there.
The Comey-Upance 0
Mike Malloy rips James Comey over the Hillary Clinton email scamdal.
Warning: Heated language, NSFW.
Excerpt:
It’s as if Comey implicated Clinton in the Kennedy assassination because Comey heard she may have once been in Dallas.
Signs of the Times 0
One of my acquaintances, who lives in one of the most exclusive areas of Virginia Beach, has had every Hillary Clinton sign he’s placed in his yard destroyed. In Pennsylvania, this lady is fighting back.
This, the Methodist minister explained Tuesday, is her crafty counterattack to the campaign-sign aggression committed every four years on her highly visible Main Line lawn, which has been a battlefield of election enmity for nearly a decade.
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Plus Ca Change 0
Dick Polman reminds us that bitter presidential campaigns are nothing new.
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Trickle-on Economics 0
Michael Hiltzik surveys the ruin:
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Reality Bites 0
DougJ has a theory as to why persons frequently say they just want the campaign to be over: because it hurts to be reminded of the reality of today’s Republican Party.