2016 archive
The Candidates Debate 0
I generally do not watch election returns or campaign circuses debates because I have better things to do with my time, like watch reruns of Murder She Wrote. They generally have less nutritional value than a Twinkie without the delicious creamy filling.
If anything of value happens, I can always read about them the next day.
Thankfully, Dick Polman has summarized last night’s Trumpalooza “forum” to prove to me that my decision to watch a rerun of The Bob Newhart Show was a correct and much more edifying decision. Here’s a snippet:
But the main event was Lauer’s abject subservience to Trump. Here’s the gist of what happened.
Q: Are you prepared to be commander-in-chief?
A: Absolutely!
Q: But are you really prepared to be commander-in-chief?
A: The best!
Q: Thank you sir, may I have another?
Hack Journalism 0
Rex Huppke coughs up a column.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
No change worth noting (emphasis added).
(snip)
The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, declined to 261,250 from 263,000 in the prior week. Filings have been below 300,000 for 79 straight weeks — the longest stretch since 1970 and a level economists say is typically consistent with a healthy labor market.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits dropped by 7,000 to 2.14 million in the week ended Aug. 27. The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits was 1.6 percent for a seventh week. These data are reported with a one-week lag.
QOTD 0
Edgar Cayce:
Don’t feel sorry for self–that’s the best way to condemn, for you condemn everyone else.
Reading number 3527-1
H/T Susan.
“Angel of Arms” 0
Prisoners of the Privatization Scam 0
Warning: Language.
A Missive from a Mainer 0
Afterthought:
I never expected to see so much stuff I couldn’t make up as I’ve seen this year . . . .
Up against the Wall 0
Of course, if LePage wasn’t such a jerk, some other outcome would have been likely, however it might have been spun.
Samuel Johnson Was Right 0
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel In related news, David Niose questions attempts to “instill” patriotism. A snippet:
Such conditioning is neither necessary nor healthy, and as a society we should rethink it. Just ask Colin Kaepernick, the NFL player who unleashed a public outcry after respectfully dissenting from the national anthem. For doing nothing more than sitting out a ceremonial song at the start of a football game, Kaepernick has been called a traitor and worse. Or ask Bradford Campeau-Laurion, who was once ejected from Yankee Stadium for having the audacity to use the seventh-inning stretch to visit the men’s room rather than sing “God Bless America.” Such hostile responses to mild gestures of dissent show not a healthy patriotism but an aggressive, chauvinistic nationalism.
When Will White Folks Stop Lying to Themselves? 0
Tony Norman points out that it was called “slave labor” for a reason.