July, 2022 archive
QOTD 0
John Thaw, in the voice of Chief Inspector Morse:
The Church loves a repentant sinner . . . good for business.
Persons Who Look at Themselves in Rose-Colored Mirrors 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Susan Krauss Whitbourne explores how persons who do bad things manage to feel good about themselves. It is a relevant read in these roiling times. Here’s a bit:
(Grammar error fixed.)
Establishmentarians 0
Amy Lefkof spells it out.
A Viral Infraction 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Editorial Licentiousness 0
Mark Hermann wonders why the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, both owned by Rupert Murdoch, decided to pirouette about Donald Trump almost simultaneously. A snippet:
But the editors at the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post somehow didn’t know it?
Why did it take the Journal and the Post 18 months to be shocked — shocked! — to learn that the Capitol Building was ransacked on January 6 and that the president did nothing for three hours to stop it?
Aside:
I suspect it’s to give Murdoch some cover as his primary outlet, Fox News, continues to shamelessly pimp for Trump and Trumpettes in prime time. But I’ve always been a touch on the cynical side.
And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
Dinah Shore performs a special version of “Night & Day” dedicated to troops on the China-Burma-India front.
Establishmentarians 0
This quotation from Barry Goldwater is surfacing a lot these days:
The reason is simple. He was right.
Labor Farce 0
David discusses the disassociation between Republican talking points and reality, focusing on Florida Senator Rick Scott’s claim that “we need to get Americans back to work” when unemployment is at the lowest level in four decades.
The Shills 0
SFGate’s Drew Magary marvels as ESPN’s relentless promoting of sports betting.
QOTD 0
Judith Kelman:
Life, I tell my sons, is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.
Kelman, Judith, “Introduction,” Stout, Rex, Curtains for Three (New York: Bantam, 1994), p. vi.
“Paranoia Strikes Deep” 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Charlie Jane Anders tries to under stand the sudden explosion in fear and paranoia about trans people. (I would argue that it’s because hate always seems to find a ready market, but that’s just me.) Given the waves of hate crashing into our eardrums every day, I recommend it as a worthwhile read. Here’s bit:
But the past few years have felt different.
The drumbeat of anti-trans articles and rhetoric seems organized, coordinated. And I’ve seen the effects in my own world. A couple of years ago, a liberal cis woman who used to go out for drinks every week with a group of trans women, including myself, suddenly “came out” as a transphobe and started spouting views that wouldn’t have felt out of place in right-wing media. I couldn’t recognize my friend anymore, and I still don’t understand.
