2019 archive
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Russian Impulses 0
Shaun Mullen has the latest.
Like As Not 0
Using recent news stories about Elizabeth Warren as a springboard, Tony Norman accuses the press of malpractice for using “likeability,” rather than competence, knowledge, and ability (just to pick a few) to judge candidates for political office. Here’s an excerpt:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to children.
The child is recovering, no thanks to the confluence of guns and stupid.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout, in the voice of Julie Jaquette:
When people’s brains stop working, just go somewhere else.
Stout, Rex, Death of a Doxy (New York: Bantam, 1995), p. 78.
No Compromise 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Susan Krauss Whitbourne explores the interplay between narcissism and intransigence. Here’s a tiny bit:
Follow the link, read the whole thing, and ask yourself, “Does this sound like anyone on the telly-vision?”
Virginia Beach Drinking Liberally Tomorrow 0
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When: Thursday, January 10, 6 p.
Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)
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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Shaun Mullen meditates on the rise of the New Secesh.
All the News that Fits 0
Thom wonders whether media corporations’ quest for profit is affecting their news coverage, in particular in choosing which stories to cover and which to ignore (or, at least, to de-emphasize).
Ratings Rainbloat 0
PoliticalProf notes that some are asking by Donald Trump’s speech tonight will be on television, when President Obama’s speech about immigration was. He offers a reason:
But the answer is obvious. Donald Trump makes the media money.
This is actually the key point about Trump’s second-act life – roughly everything from the moment his Atlantic City casino collapsed in bankruptcy. From that moment on, Donald Trump has mostly been a tool, a product marketed by others to make themselves money.
Trump wasn’t the boss on The Apprentice. Mark Burnett was. Trump doesn’t build anything. He licenses his name for others to use when they’re building a thing.
More at the link.