Whoever made this, thank you.
Trump v. Manson. pic.twitter.com/ztUx36aY1c
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) January 31, 2016
Sunday, January 31, 2016
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Saturday, January 30, 2016
Bob And Chez
These guys are often pretty dang good. Not Professional Left kinda good, but good. The best bit for me is their point that Trump is setting up DumFux News to be included in the big bad media megalith, and using Sarah Palin to swing the sledge for him. Pretty interesting.
And it goes along with driftglass (Professional Left) observing that there are politicians and other power-humpers out there trying lotsa little maneuvers to take advantage of our obsessive acceptance of the Both-Sides narrative in order to position themselves as the "sensible middle". Trump is a master at playing the ends against each other while staying safely at the center of it all. (have you watched "The Wheeler Dealers" yet, like I told ya?)
And it goes along with driftglass (Professional Left) observing that there are politicians and other power-humpers out there trying lotsa little maneuvers to take advantage of our obsessive acceptance of the Both-Sides narrative in order to position themselves as the "sensible middle". Trump is a master at playing the ends against each other while staying safely at the center of it all. (have you watched "The Wheeler Dealers" yet, like I told ya?)
The Mic Drop
Nobody's doing it better right now than Larry Wilmore.
Still hoping Trevor Noah will at least start to catch up soon. Also hoping the suits give him the space and the help he needs to do that.
Friday, January 29, 2016
Listen Up
This week's podcast from driftglass and Blue Gal - Ep. 312, Trump No Trump
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Left Behind
What strikes me is that these people sound like children. Whether they're 22 years old or 60 - when they speak, they sound like they think they know everything they need to know, and that there's just no way they could be trying to argue their point from a false premise.
The two Goober Squadlings in that report can't believe they won't get their way just because they think they're right and everybody else is wrong and, "Gee, Dad - it's just not fair - all the other kids did it".
And not to give ya too much of a whiplash, but we need to put some real schooling back into schools. We need to teach kids about critical thinking, so they don't grow up to become easy marks for any random jagoff who can fool 'em into believing whatever he tells 'em in order to serve his own lust for power.
I'm not trying to set myself up as a paragon. I've bought into all kinds of shit that ends up looking pretty stoopid in retrospect. I owned a pair of Earth Shoes for fuck's sake - but c'mon, guys - at least I haven't let anybody convince me Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 is the only thing in the US Constitution that matters.
Skepticism is our friend, kids.
Apply the same principles to everything anybody says about their "deeper understanding".
The arrogance that seems always to grow from deliberate ignorance can get your dumb ass killed.
Guerrilla Campaign
If this is real - and I'm hoping it is - it doesn't get much grass-rootsier than this right here.
Who's Foolin' Who?
So Paul Kantner died yesterday, and I went to YouTube to listen to Crown of Creation (which I hadn't heard in quite a while), and holy crap - Star Track comes on and I'm thinking that sounds really familiar, and holy crap again, I start singing Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In - and it fits almost perfectly.
Everything recycles. Everything is derived from something else. So when something comes along that seems really new, try to understand how rare and exceptional it has to be to make us forget where it came from.
Star Track --Jefferson Airplane
Just Dropped In (cover) --Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
Everything recycles. Everything is derived from something else. So when something comes along that seems really new, try to understand how rare and exceptional it has to be to make us forget where it came from.
Star Track --Jefferson Airplane
Just Dropped In (cover) --Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
I Have Found God
... oh - sorry, it's just Charlie Pierce - and that's close enough for me.
It seems that, over at The Washington Post, a once-great newspaper now doing business as an adjunct to the home delivery industry, Fred Hiatt's Workshop For Ghastly Writing is getting a little run for this editorial in which Bernie Sanders is posed as the Lord Mayor Of Munchkinland. There's nothing like the scorn of the Church Of The Savvy. To borrow a comparison from the late Molly Ivins, it's like being gummed by a newt. Folks, leave the snark to the professionals, OK? Anyway, it seems that Fred and his minions find Sanders' proposals to be unrealistic, an insight now shared by almost every putatively liberal pundit, as well as every gas station attendant between Des Moines and Ottumwa. Let's look at the argument, shall we?
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Winning Debate Tweet
Jeb "Goldilocks" Bush:
My dad invaded Iraq too little.
My brother invaded Iraq too much.
I will invade Iraq just right.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 29, 2016
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