October, 2024 archive
It’s the Stupid, Economy, Reprise 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Jody Telfair Richards runs the numbers and concludes
Follow the link for said numbers.
The Wannabe 0
Seth takes a closer look at the news that Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, has attested that Trump meets the definition of a fascist and that Trump has praised Hitler in his presence.
My father fought against Hitler in the Ardennes.
He did not do that so we could elect a wannabe Hitler to be our president.
Please watch this. It is worth your while.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
We are again reminded that politeness is a family value.
Polarization Nation 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, David Evans considers why dis coarse discourse has become so coarse and offers some suggestions for reducing today’s political polarization. In our current political climate, his article is well worth a read.
Here’s a tiny bit; follow the link for the rest.
But around the year 2000, the country began to be more polarized.
(snip)
A big factor has to do with the way we receive our news. Early in the twentieth century, the radio came into prominence, and the government required that all broadcast stations be licensed. Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce at the time, recognized that the stations were a public trust and shouldn’t favor one political party over the other. So he instituted the Fairness Doctrine.
The Fairness Doctrine required that a broadcast entity, when it reported a story about one political party, had to also give the other side a chance to respond. Both political parties needed to be treated fairly and equally.
But Ronald Reagan, as president, vetoed the Fairness Doctrine, and the equal treatment of both political parties in the news vanished. Before long, partisan broadcasters such as Rush Limbaugh appeared and, soon after that, Fox News.
A Palmer Reading 0
Robert Reich, in a longer piece about Donald Trump’s recent remarks about Arnold Palmer, reports an item which leapt out at me. He notes that Palmer was no fan of Trump. Here’s that excerpt:
Follow the link for context.
Republican Family Values 0
The L. A. Times’s Karen Kaplan runs the numbers.
Republican Thought Police 0
Florida Man loses in court–again.
Putin on the Blitz 0
Putin propagandists propagate prevarication.
A Freudian Clip 0
Seth takes a closer look Donald Trump’s Freudian fascination with Arnold Palmer and how it puts the lie to Republican claims that Donald Trump “has a plan” while Kamala Harris’s positions have no substance.
Tim Walz is right. These folks are weird.
It’s the Stupid, Economy 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Richard L. Strikland follows the money.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
It just keeps getting coarser.
All the News that Fits 0
Farron reports on a news nothingburger and wonders why the “news” sites that promoted it haven’t bothered to retract it.
Of course, we know the answer to Farron’s wonder.
Those sites report all the news that fits.
If it doesn’t fit, they don’t report it.
