“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Trudy Rubin hears a rhyme in Donald Trump’s efforts to silence his critics. A snippet:
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*Mark Twain.
Escalation 0
From the Youtube page:
Seth takes a closer look at MAGA Republicans and Fox News hosts speculating that there was a nefarious conspiracy to stop Trump’s escalator at the United Nations.
The Privatization Scam 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Randy Stapilus voices his opposition to a bill designed to use public money under the guise of “tax credits” to support private schools. In the course of it, almost as an aside, he makes this observation. Methinks it an important point often overlooked in dis coarse discourse:
Private schools are there for private purposes, not public ones.
Stray Thought 0
The raison d’etre of a “Customer Service Department” in today’s business world is to ensure that there is a space between the “Customer” and the “Service.”
Recommended Listening 0
Bob Cesca’s interview with Hal Sparks.
Hal spends a lot of time in the darker corners of the inner webs and sheds a lot of light on how things work there. See the description at the link for more. (Warning: Hal tends to talk a blue streak, and I do mean blue.)
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Too good to be true? According to Faisal Hoque at Psychology Today Blogs, “. . . it probably is.”
Follow the link for his reasons.
Afterthought:
Remember, AI does not create. It regurgitates.
Devolution 0
Michael in Norfolk makes a frighteningly convincing case that the United States is going bananas banana republic.
The Medicine Show 0
David discusses the junk science behind the claim that there is a relationship between Tylenol and autism and offers a theory as to why the Trump maladministration is weaponizimg autism.
Republican Thought Police 0
At the Bangor Daily News, Dan Cashman, who once hosted a late night talk show, is not sanguine. A snippet:
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
We couldn’t find any lobster costumes, and a whirling freestyle in the middle of a school week was not gonna happen. So – with some extra input from a few media sources to cover instrumental sections – this is our parody rendition of “Under the Sea”, one of our old Disney favourites for its sheer joy and energy. It was composed by Alan Menken (with cracking lyrics by Howard Ashman) for the 1989 animated “The Little Mermaid” and won an Oscar. Of course, the calypso lobster’s forlorn plea for an alternative path falls on deaf ears. Which brings us to free speech.
It’s been a scary time in lots of ways in the US, with the temperature cranked up again by shocking murders and reckless responses, and sadly now the First Amendment (for decades a place of some bipartisan accord) seems to be creaking. As we were working on the arrangement, we learned that Jimmy Kimmel’s show had been reinstated by Disney – which is great news, having loved meeting him in 2020 albeit under bizarre pandemic circumstances – though we gather that much is still unclear about how the matter is going to play out. Here’s hoping that enough uproar is generated that Trump and co. think again about making their predictable/alarming move on limiting freedom of expression.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
It seems that the Trump maladministration is committed to exercising undue process of lawless.
And we are again reminded that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
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The Peace Faker 0
Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations.
The stupid. It burns.