March, 2024 archive
The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0
Writing at the Arizona Republic, E. J. Montini takes issue with a fake elector who is trying to claim that he did nothing wrong. A snippet (emphasis added):
Actually, I think the republic was founded on the democratic principle that voters — not fake electors — decided elections
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Follow the link for more of Montini’s musings on the matter.
The Money Pit 0
Seth discusses why big money donors seem reluctant to donate to a man known for not paying his debts.
Twits Own Twitter X Offenders
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San Francisco judge dismisses Elon Musk’s empty suit.
Some of the judge’s comments, as quoted in the news story, delight the soul.
Dis Coarse Discourse, Both Sides Don’t Dept. 0
In a longer post about NBC’s fatuous decision to hire Trump apparatchik Ronna MacDaniel, Dick Polman points out a major fallacy in how media covers political news (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the full article.
Much Ado about Not Much of Anything:
What Drives Drivel on the Disinformation Superhighway
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I found the recent recent who-shot-john about Princess Kate to be–er, what’s the word I’m looking for?–stupid. Here’s a person who’s in the public eye only because of whom she’s married to, and who she’s married to is in the public eye only because he’s descended from folks who use to rich, influential, and powerful, persons who are now rich and not very influential (and, to the extent they are influential, they choose not to exercise influence, for fear the hollowness thereof will be exposed). Yet, persons spent a week or more speculating, questioning, and conspiracy theorizing on “social” media because she had not been seen in public for a couple of months.
At Psychology Today Blogs, Susan Albers takes a look at the the dynamics that powered this spectacular waste of time and energy, concluding that
Methinks her article is worth a read, as it sheds some light on how and why falsehood, irrelevance, and just plain stupid jams up the disinformation superhighway.
America: Should the Rich Pay Their Fair Share? 0
Republicans: Fuggedaboutit.
Misdirection Play: Hot Air about Windmills 0
Rebecca Burns, author and journalist based in Georgia, to discuss her recent piece in The American Prospect entitled “Against The Wind.”
Aside:
I think that this story, which appeared in my local rag yesterday, may be an example of the misdirection play discussed in this clip.
Most of the valid reports I’ve seen of harm to whales involve collisions with boats, not with stationary objects.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
They get fiendlier every day.
Establishmentarians 0
Missouri Republicans want to put proselytizers on the public payroll and deploy them to public schools.
“Who Let the Dogs Out? Who? Who?” 0
When you point a finger at someone else, always remember three fingers are pointing back at you.
Snaring the Wealth 0
Ted McLaughlin explains Republican’s social security con. The gist (emphasis added); follow the link for the complete article.
Since worker wages were not rising as expected (because nothing was trickling down), the Social Security funding was also not rising. This caused the funding problem Social Security will soon see. In other words, the Republicans caused the problem with Social Security with their failed economic policy favoring the rich (at the detriment of everyone else).
