November, 2022 archive
DIs Coarse Discourse 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Guy Harrison interviews Timothy Redmond about what’s gone wrong with our politics and what we need to do to fix them.
Just go read it.
QOTD 0
Edmund Crispin:
Moral indignation was an emotion that Fen distrusted; he made an effort and suppressed it.
Crispin, Edmund, Love Lies Bleeding (New York: Penguin, 1982), p. 145
The Crypto Con 0
Emma and the crew talk with a caller about the con. (The relevant portion of the clip starts about !:15 mark after a short discussion about China and Taiwan. Short commercial at the end.)
Excerpt:
The companies have huge market caps based on nothing.
Crime and Punishment 0
What Atrios said.
Misdirection Play 0
Methinks Solomon Jones is onto something.
The Real Groomers 2
In looking at the results of Arizona’s elections, the Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts identifies the real groowmers. A snippet:
I have had neighbors who worked the polls on election day.
It’s a grueling long day that starts before dawn and doesn’t end until the votes are counted.
They did it because they cared about the country and they cared about democracy, and they tried to do it right. If they are paid at all, the pay is de minimis.
They certainly don’t deserve to be reviled and abused by a bunch of whiny sore losers whose ultimate motivations, when you dig through the layers of gibberish and obfuscation, are racism and bigotry and hatred.
America’s Establishmentarians 0
Thom cites the Founders, who, though not perfect by any measure, were not stupid.
Muskrat Love 0
The Los Angeles Times’s Matt Pearce takes a long and thoughtful look at chaos agent Elon Musk’s stewardship (or perhaps that sever-ship) of Twitter. A snippet:
In a related vein, the EFF offers some guidance to those who might be interested in an alternative to Twitter.
Mean for the Sake of Mean 0
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
