2019 archive
It’s All about the Benjamins 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire, in case you still wonder why I’ve lost interest in college sports (emphasis in the original):
I think that the phrase, “intercollegiate business partners,” is quite telling.
Suffer the Children 0
Seth wonders just what is a “fake asylum seeker.”
QOTD 0
Robert Goldsborough, in the voice of Audra Pierce:
I find it amazing how eager some people are to deliver news that might be disturbing to the recipient.
Goldsborough, Robert, Battered Badge (New York: Mysterious Press/Open Road, 2018), p. 128.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Schoolyard Trumpling.
(snip)
The post threatened an ethnic cleansing in the form of a school shooting and told white students at CHS to stay home. The person who posted the threat claimed to be a Charlottesville student.
The message boards 4chan and 8chan have been frequented by white supremacists. The sites were banned in New Zealand in the wake of last week’s mosque shootings for hosting video of the massacre.
A Tune for the Times 0
Say hello to Devin Nunes’ Cow (warning: language).
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Stray politeness.
The NRA will likely argue that, had she been packing, this would not have happened.
Freedom of Screech 0
Ed at Gin and Tacos considers “deplatforming.” A snippet:
It’s worth the 30 seconds of your time that it will take to read the rest.
The Entitlement Society 0
Thom’s guest, Vicky Ward, argues that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are no Ken and Barbie.
A Gamed System 0
The Founders argued that the Electoral College would prevent incompetent persons from becoming president. In the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton asserted that
Clearly, the Founders were, as my old boss used to say, “in error.”