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QOTD 0

Dorothy Parker:

It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.

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December 24, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: First Looks |

‘Tis the Season 0

Frederic B. Hill has a Christmas gift suggestion.

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December 23, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Bubble-Boy 0

Steven M. floats a theory. Here’s the gist; follow the link for his reasoning.

Trump’s election seems to be what you get when we’re all allegedly in separate political bubbles — but he grew up in a mass-market era, and it seems as if he still believes he can persuade the masses that the wall is a swell idea. It may be that he usually doesn’t do outreach to the rest of us because his constant diet of Fox News persuades him that he is reaching out to the masses — in the America described by Fox . . . .

A quibble: I submit that we are all not “all in separate political bubbles.”

Rather, it’s the folks who choose to get all their news all the time from Fox News and its dupes, symps, and fellow travelers who have willingly en-bubbled themselves in Fox News’s nonsense nonsensical universe where up is down and down is–oh, never mind.

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December 23, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Wars and Rumor-Mongers of Wars 0

The Miami Herald’s Carl Hiaasen skewers Fox News’s annual phony-baloney “war on Christmas” schtick. A snippet:

Missing from Fox’s energetic coverage of the war are names, ranks or an organizational chart. Not to minimize the menace, but whoever is actually in command of this conspiracy is doing an incredibly lame job of killing the Yule spirit.

Just a few days ago, former President Obama put on a Santa hat and delivered actual Christmas presents to patients at a children’s hospital in Washington, D.C.

What the hell, Tucker (Carlson–ed.)? To conservatives, no man symbolizes the rotten left-wing plague more than Obama — so why is he out there promoting this sacred Christian celebration?

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December 23, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Republican Lies |

Twits on Twitter 0

The twit less followed . . . .

A quibble. Facebook purges nothing on its ownsome. Once you have been assimilated by the Zuckerborg, the Zuckerborg does not easily let you go.

You can deactivate an account and remove it from public view, but deleting it is much more complicated.

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December 23, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre, Too Stupid for Words |

The Flag Hugger 0

Donald Trump hugging the American flag as the flag says,

Via Juanita Jean.

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December 23, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

American MAGAverse 0

Donald and Ivanka Trump as the farm couple in

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December 23, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Stray Thought 0

Donald Trump is proving that a “weak man” form of government can be just as dangerous as a “strong man” form government.

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December 23, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Personal Musings |

QOTD 0

Taylor Caldwell:

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

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December 23, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

‘Tis the Season 0

Connie Schultz tells a Christmas story.

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December 22, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Facebook Frolics 0

Woman in living room on phone: Hello, police? I'd like to report a peeping Tom outside my house and spying on me and I'm afraid he's going to . . . never mind, it's only Mark Zuckerberg.

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December 22, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Geek Stuff, Mammon |

“If You Are Not Scared, It Means You Are Not Paying Attention” 0

Thom and Richard Wolff discuss the current global economic situation and the consequences of Donald Trump’s behavior and what they imply for the future.

They are not sanguine.

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December 22, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Economy |

Government by Temper Tantrum 0

Donald Trump as the Grinch on the White House balcony shouting,

Via Job’s Anger.

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December 22, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre, Too Stupid for Words, Too Venal for Words |

How Far Will Wells Fargo? 0

One more time, pretty damned far.

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December 22, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon, Masters of the Universe |

“The Trump Doctrine” 0

Drew Sheneman spots the pattern:

This move (withdrawing from Syria–ed.) fits in nicely with what I call the Trump Doctrine. The Trump doctrine doesn’t merely govern how the president approaches foreign policy, but how he approaches his whole life. The doctrine boils down to this:

When something becomes difficult, declare victory and walk away

Follow the link for why he says this.

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December 22, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

A Trumpled high-school wrestling match.

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December 22, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: "That Conversation about Race" |

QOTD 0

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.:

People do what you inspect, not what you expect.

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December 22, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

‘Tis the Season 0

The Tampa Bay Times’s John Romano offers some updated Christmas carols with a Flori-duh spin.

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December 21, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: C'est Rire |

Facebook Frolics 0

At the Seattle Times, Jacob Silverman calls it for what it is: Surveillance Capitalism. A snippet:

In an era when consumers are increasingly transparent to the companies that furnish them goods and services (not to mention their governments), perhaps we should expect scandals such as these. But we shouldn’t allow that foreknowledge to become an excuse for complacency. Most people still have no idea to what extent their communications and everyday behaviors are being monitored, nor do they understand how personal data is in turn leveraged for everything from targeted advertising to credit scoring, police threat assessments to job applications. Companies like Facebook and Google are now using anything from search histories to fluctuations in Wi-Fi signals to try to anticipate where we are and where we’ll go next. To be a modern consumer is to be watched, but the last year’s scandals have shown that coercion and secrecy are part of the bargain.

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December 21, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Running Naked through the Internet |

How Phony a Foundation 0

Mike comments on the pattern of illegality in Trump world. (Warning: Language.)

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December 21, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |
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