2016 archive
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still holding steady.
(snip)
The four-week average of claims declined to 259,000, the lowest since the end of April, from 264,750 in the prior period.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits rose by 32,000 to 2.15 million in the week ended July 2. The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits increased to 1.6 percent from 1.5 percent. These data are reported with a one-week lag.
Philistines! 0
Jeeves, fetch me my fainting couch and my clutching pearls. I think I shall have the vapors.
How dare someone inject reality into a commercial cathedral to consumption!
Playing the Trump Card 0
Josh Marshall analyzes the double-deal.
QOTD 0
William Shakespeare (Troilus and Cressida, III.ii):
Fears make devils of cherubins; they never see clearly.
The Platform of the Pervy Party 0
The Republican Party is still preoccupied with sex.
Honestly, can’t they think of anything else?
Plus Ca Change 0
Dick Polman surveys the 2016 Republican platform and finds no surprises.
I would venture that the America to which they look back so fondly is not that of the 1950s.
It’s that of the 1850s.
Driving while Black, Reprise 0
Ron Sims, who has served as deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and as King County (Seattle) Executive, tells his story to the Seattle Times. Here’s a bit of it:
Four stops occurred in my neighborhood, two on Beacon Hill, and one near the intersection of Rainier Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way. I was never ticketed but was always asked, “Do you live in this neighborhood?” or “Where are you going?”
More tales of even-handed law enforcement at the link.
“Inflaming Passions,” Reprise 0
One more time: It’s not the deed. It’s the light shining upon the deed.
Trump on the Stump . . . 0
. . . at Juanita Jean’s.
Sanity Break 0
No, despite what you may hear, the whole country is not going crazy.
It’s the Republican Party and its dupes, fellow travelers, and symps that are melting down. The rest of us are okay.
Keep that in mind.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Really, now, you do realize these are just innocent Civil War re-enactors, do you not?
(snip)
The Polaris had a Confederate flag attached to it and was driven by a man who allegedly approached the victim and said, “You need to leave,” followed by a slur for African-Americans. The man then repeated the slur, telling the victim that such people “get hung around these parts.”
“Inflaming Passions” 0
It’s not the deed. It’s the light shining upon the deed.