Monthly Archive: September 2016
JEB EXCLAMATION POINT!
WATCH: "JEB EXCLAMATION POINT!" Jeb Bush, now driving around Selina Meyer. #Emmys @JimmyKimmel https://t.co/vWxFC9qbXu — Good Morning America (@GMA) September 19, 2016
Saturday!
Some games are played on a console.
Some games are played on a gridiron.
(On College Football.)
The Cubs Win the Pennant!
…in 1885. And they’re not the Cubs yet.
But Cubs fans need to take what they can get.
Linky Friday #184: Here On Planet Earth
This Week: Japan, Africa, Nordica, Islands, Historia, and Space!
The American Interest: A Republic If You Can Keep It
In 2011, before anyone ever thought about “Trump-for-President,” our data show 40 percent of the American population was expressing distinctly non-democratic views, providing the raw material for anti-establishment political insurgencies. In the United States...
Siegel — Why Hubble Will Never see the First Stars
But can we ever see the Big Bang? Because that’d be like looking at yourself 13.8 billion years ago. Dude.
Feeling old, typing edition
In which the author and a third grade teacher share mutual incomprehension.
Vice: The US Government Has Sent This Guy 300 Joints Each Month for 34 Years
If Irvin Rosenfeld had to guess, he’d say he’s smoked about 135,000 joints since 1982—roughly ten a day, every day, for 34 years. Despite a cannabis habit that would probably kill Snoop Dogg, the...
V for Vindication: Justifications for Piracy and Copyright
Perhaps there is more to piracy than its need to be stopped.
Morning Ed: Science {2016.09.13.T}
There is no more dangerous place in the world in between a man and the conclusion he wants to reach…
Coates: Why the Media Didn’t Bother to Verify if Hillary Clinton’s Remark About Half of Donald Trump’s Supporters Being ‘Deplorable’ Was True
P”To understand how truly bizarre this method of opining is, consider the following: Had polling showed that relatively few Trump supporters believe black people are lazy and criminally-inclined, if only a tiny minority of Trump supporters believed that Muslims should be banned from the country, if birtherism carried no real weight among them, would journalists decline to point this out as they excoriated her? Of course not. But the case against Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” is a triumph of style over substance, of clamorous white grievance over knowable facts.
This is what Andrew Breitbart, and his progeny, ultimately understood. What Shirley Sherrod did or did not do really didn’t matter. White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers. It is very difficult to imagine, for instance, a 9/11 truther, who happened to be black, becoming even a governor. And yet we live in an era in which the country’s leading birther might well be president. This fact certainly horrifies some of the same journalists who attacked Clinton this weekend. But what they have yet to come to grips with is that Donald Trump is a democratic phenomenon, and that there are actual people—not trolls under a bridge—whom he, and his prejudices against Latinos, Muslims, and blacks, represent.”
