2024 archive
News You Can Lose 0
David explains why he has given up on cable news.
Me, I’ve gone him one better.
I gave up on broadcast news years ago, when I realized that
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1) broadcasters were choosing to sacrifice accuracy to entertainment and eyeballs and
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2) I can read more in ten minutes than some talking head on the telly vision or the radio can spout at me in an hour.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Grung_e_Gene tries to figure out why one of the two major political parties in a country that has boasted of itself as a “nation of immigrants” is so all-fired frightened of immigrants.
Methinks he makes some points worth consideration.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Field tries to understand Nikki Haley’s attempt white-wash history in ignoring the uncomfortable fact of America’s Original Sin.
Here’s a bit of his article (emphasis in the original); follow the link for the entire post.
(Broken link fixed.)
QOTD 0
Mitzi Kapture, as Sgt. Rita Lee Lance, and Dennis Paladino, as shady underworld-adjacent figure Donnie “Dogs” DiBarto:
Rita: I didn’t know you played golf, Donnie. I wouldn’t think that would be your game.
Donnie: Of course, kid. I was born for it. You get made, swing the club, put it in a hole, and lie about it afterwards.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy is optimistic.
The Lake Effect 0
An Arizona Judge has ruled that Kari Lake can be held responsible for her lies, or, to put it another way, that the Constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech does not convey immunity for defaming someone with falsehoods.
It’s All about the Algorithm 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Mark Bertin reminds us that
Follow the link for some suggestions as to how to escape the seductive lure of the algorithm.
“An Exercise of Market Power,” This New Gilded Age Dept. 0
Sam and the crew talk with David Dayen about a recent antitrust jury trial in which Google was found guilty.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” didn’t know the gun was loaded when he sent a bullet into a neighbor’s house.
Hauman told officers that he didn’t think the gun was loaded.
“Manipulate.”
Methinks another “M” word would be more appropri–oh, never mind.
Boebert Is the New Gohmert 0
At The Colorado Sun, Mike Littwin looks back on a year of Boebert. A nugget:
