November, 2022 archive
Punishing the Peons in the New Gilded Age 0
At the San Fransisco Chronicle, Lorena Gonzalez looks at how Elon Musk’s arbitrary, capricious, and erratic (mis)treatment of employees at Twitter, then at his track record as an employer, and concludes, “No surprises here.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Jean Guerrero rips the hood off those who claim to be “colorblind” as they campaign against affirmative action. Here’s a tiny bit from the article (emphasis added):
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But those same activists who’ve stoked the flames of antagonism toward affirmative action have close ties to the architects of this country’s metastasizing white nationalist movement. These links reveal the activists’ ultimate agenda, which has nothing to do with ending racism.
Follow the link for the evidence.
Twits Own Twitter 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier can’t tear his eyes from the chaos.
And Atrios remarks on Elon Musk, the Artless Dodger.
Recommended Listening 0
The Saint radio show, with Vincent Price as Simon Templar.
I have been a fan of The Saint since I was a young ‘un.
I have read almost all of Leslie Charteris’s novels and short stories and watched all of that most excellent Roger Moore television series, some episodes multiple times.
Of course, neither the television series nor the radio shows were entirely true to Charteris’s Saint. Their Saints were much more law-abiding than the original; the original valued justice over law and was quite willing to break the law to achieve justice. The broadcast series feared to go quite so far.
But the Vincent Price series is a great listen.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
Donald Trump was supported by some of the most unhinged, racist, conspiracy-believing, anti-government, fascist-wannabe whackos of all time. The ‘religious’ leaders that supported him were much the same, although generally they tended to be mostly amoral grifters whose holy schtick was an easy way to pay for their luxury lifestyle and pool boys without doing any heavy lifting.
The Crypto Con, One More Time 0
Writing in the Portland Press-Herald, Adam Lee unveils a new cryptocurrency based on a renewable resource.
The currency is going to be based on how many poops our dogs take in our yard per day.
Follow the link for details.
The Crypto Con 0
Rebecca Watson digs into NFTs. She is less than impressed with what she finds.
Of, if you’d rather read, there’s a transcript.
The New Gilded Age 0
It gets more gilded every day. From a report at SFGate:
As I have mentioned, I worked for the railroad (I loved the railroad!), which is a heavily unionized environment (though these days, the unions don’t seem to be as strong as they should used to be). By happenstance, I knew a high-ranking union official, the chief lobbyist for one of the major railroad unions, a kind and honest and thoughtful man, indeed, one of the finest men I have ever known.
He was fond of pointing out that “unions are the creation of management.”
To put it another way, if management treats employees fairly, employees have no incentive to form unions.
One Thing Is Not Like the Other Thing 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times calls him out some whataboutism.
Bait and Switch 0
The Editorial Board of the Charlotte Observer details the con.
Twits Own Twitter 0
Sam suggests that what Elon Musk is doing with Twitter is a case study of why billionaires can be corrosive to our society. Watch the video for his reasoning.
