2020 archive
Trump Plays His “Get Out of Jail Free” Cards 0
David digs into the implication of Trump’s pardon spree and sees a pattern: “elites protecting elites.”
Bringing New Meaning to the Term, “Cell Phone” 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
Marketing Moments 0
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Aside:
The other day as I was driving to a local recycling center, I stumbled over our local R&B station and decided to listen a bit.
I heard a Bloomberg ad clearly directed at the expected demographic of an R&B station’s audience. I totally get (as the kids say) this cartoon; the ad was warm with smarm.
Image via Job’s Anger.
The Idiocy of Isolationism 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., suggests that the spread of the coronavirus bears a message for wall-eyed pikers everywhere. A snippet:
Aside:
The one bright spot is that the illness the virus causes could be much worse than it is. As warnings go, it could have been a lot worse.
We’ve Gone App Sappy 0
We are a society of electronic stupid.
(snip)
After Paul says Gig Share suggested that she and her companion sleep in the car overnight on the side of the road, she called for a tow truck “to move us three miles down the road where there is cell service so we can start our car[.] The future is dumb.”
Follow the link. You may find this difficult to imagine, but it gets stupider.
Behind That Curtain 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Susan Krauss Whitbourne offers a guide to Trump and Trumpism Machiavellian manipulators.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to animals.
One of her horses, Jack, died from his injuries.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
At Science 2.0, Hank Campbell explores the role of “social” media in fomenting untruth and the sometime complicity of journalism in perpetuating the disinformation.
Methinks that “distrust but verify” is a good guideline as regards “social” media.
A Misdirection Play . . . 0
. . . of monumental proportions.
Stray Thought, Textual Interpretation Dept. 0
Judging from the activity of my telly fones, the “Do Not Call List” is thoroughly castrated, so I reckon that my wish for a “Do Not Text List” is a lost cause. But, honest to Betsy, I’m sick of unsigned texts from unknown phones asking me to support/contribute to/vote for this or that pol/cause/campaign.
If they signed their names, I might feel more charitabl–On second thought, no.
Obnoxious and intrusive is obnoxious and intrusive, signed or unsigned.
The Rule of Lawless, Get Out of Jail Free Dept. 0
Methinks David understates the situation.