2016 archive
Stray Thought 0
I was tempted not to do my usual Christmas posts, but then I realized that, if there is true spirit of Christmas that transcends sect and creed, it is this:
Keep the faith. baby, even especially in the darkness.
Snowed 0
I have always preferred the movie Holiday Inn to White Christmas.
Maybe it’s just because Holiday Inn, for all that it is a piece of fluff, was a far better movie. Or maybe there’s a deeper psychological reason.
Twits on Twitter (Updated) 0
Addendum, Later That Same Afternoon:
Dick Polman has more. A snippet:
Feeling “Aggrieved” Does Not Earn a Star for Self-Esteem 0
Helen Ubinas has had enough of the Magical Empathy Tour. She notes that, even if one feels “aggrieved,” that does not give one an excuse for evil. A snippet:
I am done with the empathy tour.
Done sitting with Trump supporters as they parrot the lies his victory was built on.
Done standing among the crowds for Trump’s “thank you” tour as they insist theirs is not a campaign of xenophobia and divisiveness, while rabidly chanting, “Build the wall!”
Done fielding the hateful, racist, and misogynistic phone calls and emails and comments, which they argue are absolutely not hateful or racist or misogynistic.
More at the link.
The Carolina Coup d’Etat, Evaluation 0
Failing the test:
Indeed, North Carolina does so poorly on the measures of legal framework and voter registration, that on those indicators we rank alongside Iran and Venezuela. When it comes to the integrity of the voting district boundaries no country has ever received as low a score as the 7/100 North Carolina received. North Carolina is not only the worst state in the USA for unfair districting but the worst entity in the world ever analyzed by the Electoral Integrity Project.
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.
Cthulu would quail at the sight of it.
