Journalists are not the enemy
Dec. 8th, 2018 08:57 amAs one of my favorite journalists (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kaffy_r) retires, a gentle, agonized response to the haters. [NPR]
kaffy_r) retires, a gentle, agonized response to the haters. [NPR]Yesterday’s News
Jul. 28th, 2017 08:42 am* Dolt45 pays inadvertent tribute to George Orwell by naming a dominionist as Ambassador for Religious Freedom
* One White House staffer accuses another of wanting to perform a particularly difficult autoerotic act, thus increasing the latter’s support among the many men who wish they could do it, so as to make women completely unnecessary
* In an act of typically conspicuous courage, John McCain saves fellow Republicans from a bill they voted for in the pious hope that someone else would kill it.
* One White House staffer accuses another of wanting to perform a particularly difficult autoerotic act, thus increasing the latter’s support among the many men who wish they could do it, so as to make women completely unnecessary
* In an act of typically conspicuous courage, John McCain saves fellow Republicans from a bill they voted for in the pious hope that someone else would kill it.
Media and experts
Nov. 18th, 2015 07:05 am“Why isn’t the media covering this?”
They is. The singular media refers to all those Establishment outlets that the speaker doesn’t have to bother to check because they’re the Establishment. Cf. “Why haven’t the feminists complained about…?”
Meanwhile, record number of terrorism experts report for duty in internet comment sections.
Thanx to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
andrewducker
They is. The singular media refers to all those Establishment outlets that the speaker doesn’t have to bother to check because they’re the Establishment. Cf. “Why haven’t the feminists complained about…?”
Meanwhile, record number of terrorism experts report for duty in internet comment sections.
Thanx to
andrewduckerIndifference
Jun. 16th, 2015 05:44 amLike me, Charles Pierce doesn't have to care about Rachel Dolezal,which is good because he has better things to write about
OK, past is past. Jeb (!) is not about the past. Not him. He's especially not about that thin slice of the past that occurred during the years 2001-2009, when somebody Jeb (!) once met briefly was president of the United States and everything went to shit. Because Jeb (!) grew up in a small shoebox in the middle of the road, and is not one of the "pampered elites."
I'm glad they found the man in the boat.
Apr. 20th, 2013 06:17 amI was afraid they'd kill both suspects, and we wouldn't have a trial to give us some reassurance that they got the right guys, and they'd finally have a commission to tell us what really happened, and of course they'd put Elizabeth Warren in charge of it.
Keep Calm and Carry On
Apr. 16th, 2013 05:26 amBruce Schneier unsurprisingly talks sense about the Boston Marathon bombing.
ETA: Likewise Charlie Stross
ETA: Likewise Charlie Stross
