2016 archive
Immunity Impunity
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Shorter Leonard Pitts, Jr:
Minority Retort 0
I have from time to time noticed that one mark of a really good idea is that, once someone else thinks of it, it seems blindingly obvious.
Driftglass and Bluegal point out, in their latest podcast, that, thanks to the Fox News/Wingnut talk radio bubble, the hate-full Republican base likely believe they are the majority, even though they are not, because they have insulated themselves from other views.
Hence the coming rage when their candidate loses.
Aside:
I got a dollar to a doughnut that the husband in the second letter here is a Fox News devotee. Takers? (Krispy Kreme only, please. Delivery directions upon request.)
Parsing the Polls (Can “Unskewed Polls” Be Far Behind?) 0
Remember as you listen that the Young Turks were berning for Bernie. (They are young and innocent enough to believe that. after 150 years of unrelenting anti-socialist propaganda in this country, an avowed socialist, however benign his brand of socialism, would have had a chance in a general election.) Hints of that Bernie bern come out in their commentary.
German Engineering 0
Aside:
In the rush to market shiny new computerized things, marketing trumps computer security every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a snap(chat).
She said while taking the videos in the garage, she pulled the trigger on the firearm, and accidentally shot her cellphone and right hand.
No selfie awareness whatsoever.
Pokemon Go and the Pixels of Power 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Liraz Margalit explores the fascination of a fantasy world.
She left out the part about the stupid.
Facebook Frolics 0
Alas, poor troll.
I knew him, Horatio. But I unfriended him all the same.
I do not miss the Zuckerborg. It makes the Slough of Despond look like a resort town.