Too Venal for Words category archive
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
The Raleigh News and Observer reports that Rufus Edmisten, who served on the staff of the Watergate Committee, hears a familiar ring in contemporary events. A snippet:
“I think they’re trying to outdo Watergate,” he said of President Trump’s advisers and associates and the president himself. . . .
“If some of the people around Trump would read the Nixon-Watergate playbook, they wouldn’t be doing this foolishness. Instead they are expanding on it,” he said.
Do please read the rest.
Suffer the Children 0
The Trump administration has created a predators’ paradise by ripping children from their parents and putting them on the counters of old Walmarts.
Legal Weasels 0
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
Space Farce 0
In related news, Elie Mystal comments on Trump’s “space force” idea. A snippet:
Image via Job’s Anger.
The Grift in the Gift 0
Josh Marshall thinks he has figured out the “White House Gift Shop,” recently in the news in relation to the Trumpled North Korean summit “commemorative coin.”* A snippet:
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*AFAIC, the coin mostly commemorated hideous in design.
Swamp Things 0
Jay Bookman marvels at the corporations who quite willingly helped fund Michael Cohen for no discernible reason. A snippet:
That’s odd. Beyond financing the occasional abortion for girlfriends of GOP bigwigs, Cohen has no discernible expertise on “U.S. health-care policy matters.” Nor has he ever registered as a lobbyist. For its part, Novartis is so comfortable and proud of its just-uncovered association with Cohen and his company, Essential Consultants, that it quickly moved to distance current management from the deal.
Follow the link for more.
Going for the Dogs 0
In the more stuff you can’t make up file, cops in Illinois threaten to euthanize their drug-sniffing dogs if Illinois legalizes marijuana. Elie Mystal comments.
Swoosh! 0
That’s the sound of the broom sweeping sexist pigs out the door at Nike. A nugget:
As women — and men — continue to come forward with complaints, Nike has begun a comprehensive review of its human-resources operations, making management training mandatory and revising many of its internal reporting procedures.
Nowhere that I ever worked did I witness conduct like that described in the article.
Facebook Frolics, Guinea Pigs Dept. 0
Writing at Psychology Today Blogs, Susan Krauss Whitbourne describes how Facebook profiled its users victims. Here’s a bit of the article:
