Hate Sells category archive
Great Moments in Zoom 0
Yet another racist zoom-bombing.
Boebert Is the New Gohmert 0
Jim Wright explains. A snippet:
This is what the Republican Party has become: Lauren Boebert.
One Thing Is Not Like the Other Thing 0
With all due respect to Clyde Evely, “suspension of disbelief” and willfull abandonment of reality are not the same thing.
Aside:
The fabled panic created by Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds broadcast, to which Evely refers, was not as remembered in popular folklore (we covered this in my Sociology 101 class [mumble] years ago, for Pete’s sake). It affected a very small portion of the audience, mostly persons who listened to other radio shows and tuned into War of the Worlds after it was already about 15 minutes in and who lived in the area of New Jersey where the drama was set.
It’s not that persons disregarded the disclaimer at the beginning of the broadcast. It’s that they weren’t listening when the disclaimer was aired.
By the way, you can listen to that broadcast at the OTR Network Library.
Projection 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Tony Norman writes of the Ahmaud Arbery case and trial.
In one passage, he gets to the gist of the motive for the lynching–for a lynching it was (emphasis added).
Follow the link for the complete article..
The Rittenhouse Rules, Reprise 0
Via C&L, which notes, in part, that
Follow the link for the rest of their report.
As the Twig Is Bent . . . . 0
. . . and, boy! these twigs are bent.
None Dare Call It Terrorism . . . 0
. . . but it is.
All the News that Fits, “What If” Dept. 0
Aside:
Methinks the author, in some sort of inane gesture to bothsiderism, grossly overestimates the influence of MSNBC.
MSNBC has viewers (of which I am not one, by the way, as I gave up on television news a long time ago–except when there’s a snow storm). Fox News has disciples.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
The editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun asks a (rhetorical) question:
Follow the link to see how they answered it.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
As my two or three regular readers know, I’m a bit of a mystery buff.
I’ve recently reread one of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe novels, Champaign for One, which was first published in the mid-1950s. Prominent in the plot is a “home for unwed mothers,” a place where expectant unwed mothers could go to hide their shame until their children were born and given up for adoption, once a common practice. (The one featured in the story, the Grantham Institute, was no Magdalene Laundry by any means, but a gracious and humane institution, but that’s neither here nor there. A true Magdalen Laundry does feature in one of Kerry Greenwood’s Phrynne Fisher stories.)
Rebecca Watson fears a return on such institutions (Magdalene Laundries, that is, not Grantham Institutes) may be in the offing.
The Card Has Been Dealt 0
Joe Patrice argues that the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse bodes ill for the rule of law.
The devolution continues.