There's normally a sort of 'class solidarity' that Briggs often exhibits towards the upper middle class, but in this case, he's certainly 'taking the piss' on that lot, as the brits would say.
Fact checking the sourpuss, 1923 was indeed a relative low for MLB attendance, for some reason, (8.6 million) but then would gain almost a million the next year and remain around 9.5 million for the rest of the decade.
Interestingly, (but maybe not surprising*) attendance peaked in 1930 at over 10.1 million, but then would fall off dramatically the next couple of years, bottoming out in 1933 at just a bit over 6 million.
https://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/1930-1939-mlb-attendance/
*my hypothesis being that if people found themselves suddenly without a job, they would in the short term have took advantage of the free time to go to the ball park, but over the long term, not go at all due to lack of money.
I was reminded of this week watching the first season of Star Trek Deep Space Nine, which, while far better than the opening season on TNG, still had some plot devices that would be an entire series arc and/or show premise in modern day.
Basically, this one off character is able to create a living sentient fully formed clone in his own bedroom, just for the purpose of framing someone for his murder
Is it 'people' that don't like Medicaid, or is it 'state governments' that don't like Medicaid mandates, because it represents an open enduring & growing budget obligation that they can't just go into debt to cover down on?
(also, it's probably not accurate to say that all EU health care delivery and payment systems are identical i.e. not anything is actually like the UK NHS, afaik. And even in Canada, the health care system is mostly provincially, not nationally, run.
Though this is something in favor of your view in that the impression is more dominant than the reality, so it may not matter)
If there's a hot take that's actually somewhat true, is that Amalgamated Comedy Method Enterprises, Inc will be comfortable making fun of Biden the way they never were and never did with Obama.
OW6 - Zoglin seems simply ignorant of the landscape. Colbert does a solid Joe Biden character, and he seems in fact to be having more fun with it than any of his Trump stuff, especially down the stretch. The Comedy Industry as a whole seemed to be really weary of Trump, even before the pandemic hit.
part of the problem is that for most of our lifetimes, the go to schtick for politician mockery was to make up stuff that sounded like it could be them, but exaggerated, and was not actually them. e.g. all of Dana Carvey's manerisms of Bush senior, and up to and including "I can see Russia from my house" for Sarah Palin.
but the go to thing for Trump was to merely replay exactly what Trump said or did, because it was impossible to exaggerate. which got old by Spring *2017*. It's telling that dialed-in impressions of Trump only really started going viral last fall, after literally decades of material to work with.
eta - this makes me remember that thing the Onion went thru a little over a year ago where they basically apologized for their Diamond Joe character, because it made him 'cool' and the onion folks didn't want Biden to be President.
When I was watching this last night, I literally lol’d (startling my wife) at the point Biden leans into the camera and says “I need you!” (15:42 in the video above)
There is also the fact that this ‘fact’ of un-Newtoning to decenter whiteness is the characterization of “an upperclassman” (note that it is not stated that they took the class) as transcribed by Bari Weiss. (And they relayed by a conservative on Twitter)
So there’s a filter here. I don’t think Weiss has quite the same reputation as ‘just so’ quotes as say, Salena Zito, but also a look a Weiss’s biography shows she’s been a lot more in the editor and commentary role than an actual beat reporter.
This more or less happened with the majority of suits against Trump in his capacity as President. E.g. for alleged violations of the emoluments clause.
The suits were filed in the first year of the Trump admin, but by the time they had reached their way to the Supreme Court, it was past Jan 20 2021, and they were dismissed as moot.
Which makes the timing of the decision in this particular suit, with it’s eight vote agreement, kinda curious. In hindsight, the various state AG and advocacy groups I guess should have included some nominal damage claim
I'm wondering if in 1908 this was ahead of a trend, or on trend.
That is, I had thought that thin women were not considered 'conventionally attractive' until Hollywood really started to get going in the late 1910's-early 1920's
Eh, like Mr. Mendez points out, the effective cancelation of the 2020 movie season didn’t alter the game too much, with the peculiar qualification requirements for Oscar nominations* which in turn only had to tweaked a little.
*i.e. iirc normally they only have to be shown for a week in certain NYC & LA theaters. Wide release was never necessary, and for years now, studios have gamed the system to only show their Oscar bait movies for the minimum time, then re release for wider distribution if they win or get enough buzz.
Future tense of ‘what are you going to call him’ indicates to me that this was still the era where infants weren’t given names until several months after birth, sometimes up to a year or two.
To be fair, that's the popular experience with the entirety of European classical music. Everyone knows the under 5 minute bop portion of a given piece, nobody wants to stick around for the hour long 4 movement listen of its entirety
I think they miss the USA’s brief surge in the Mexican American war, where most sources have the US Army numbering at least 40k-60k troops. (One source say the regular army was only 30k, but there were another 60k volunteers)(or volunteers brought the total strength to 60k, it’s not clear)
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On “Oh Man! The Outrage”
There's normally a sort of 'class solidarity' that Briggs often exhibits towards the upper middle class, but in this case, he's certainly 'taking the piss' on that lot, as the brits would say.
On “The Sourpuss”
JB beat me to the Chomsky comment.
Fact checking the sourpuss, 1923 was indeed a relative low for MLB attendance, for some reason, (8.6 million) but then would gain almost a million the next year and remain around 9.5 million for the rest of the decade.
https://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/1920-1929-mlb-attendance/
Interestingly, (but maybe not surprising*) attendance peaked in 1930 at over 10.1 million, but then would fall off dramatically the next couple of years, bottoming out in 1933 at just a bit over 6 million.
https://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/1930-1939-mlb-attendance/
*my hypothesis being that if people found themselves suddenly without a job, they would in the short term have took advantage of the free time to go to the ball park, but over the long term, not go at all due to lack of money.
On “The Morning Bath”
Here is that song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UliCMEdTFE
eta -
per Wikipedia this is more popular version of the song. The singer is the inspiration for the voice of Betty Boop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rclfkeyy1bg
On “Teaching 90s Kids Language Skills Via Mass Murder Through Advertising”
I was reminded of this week watching the first season of Star Trek Deep Space Nine, which, while far better than the opening season on TNG, still had some plot devices that would be an entire series arc and/or show premise in modern day.
Basically, this one off character is able to create a living sentient fully formed clone in his own bedroom, just for the purpose of framing someone for his murder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_Alone_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine)
On “Linky Friday: Hot, Cold, and Lukewarm Mess Edition”
Is it 'people' that don't like Medicaid, or is it 'state governments' that don't like Medicaid mandates, because it represents an open enduring & growing budget obligation that they can't just go into debt to cover down on?
(also, it's probably not accurate to say that all EU health care delivery and payment systems are identical i.e. not anything is actually like the UK NHS, afaik. And even in Canada, the health care system is mostly provincially, not nationally, run.
Though this is something in favor of your view in that the impression is more dominant than the reality, so it may not matter)
On “Teaching 90s Kids Language Skills Via Mass Murder Through Advertising”
This must be before my time, I don't remember this at all.
The only two foreign language ads that stick in my mind are
1) the Skymall Catalogue one where it sorta promised that you the US farm boy could gain the ability to speak to foreign supermodels. And
2) S O C K S.
On “ICA 2020 Election Report: Read It For Yourself”
Per the report, a bit more anti-Trump activity from foreign actors than had been my impression.
On “Ordinary World: Ides of March Edition”
If there's a hot take that's actually somewhat true, is that Amalgamated Comedy Method Enterprises, Inc will be comfortable making fun of Biden the way they never were and never did with Obama.
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OW6 - Zoglin seems simply ignorant of the landscape. Colbert does a solid Joe Biden character, and he seems in fact to be having more fun with it than any of his Trump stuff, especially down the stretch. The Comedy Industry as a whole seemed to be really weary of Trump, even before the pandemic hit.
part of the problem is that for most of our lifetimes, the go to schtick for politician mockery was to make up stuff that sounded like it could be them, but exaggerated, and was not actually them. e.g. all of Dana Carvey's manerisms of Bush senior, and up to and including "I can see Russia from my house" for Sarah Palin.
but the go to thing for Trump was to merely replay exactly what Trump said or did, because it was impossible to exaggerate. which got old by Spring *2017*. It's telling that dialed-in impressions of Trump only really started going viral last fall, after literally decades of material to work with.
eta - this makes me remember that thing the Onion went thru a little over a year ago where they basically apologized for their Diamond Joe character, because it made him 'cool' and the onion folks didn't want Biden to be President.
On “Linky Friday: To Link It, Link It Good!”
Most studies indicate that the UK monarchy is, on net, a financial and economic benefit to the UK, not a burden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhyYgnhhKFw
so the ceremony parts are in a way incidental to (but probably necessary for) making money.
On “Prime Time Covid: President Biden Address to Watch and Discuss”
When I was watching this last night, I literally lol’d (startling my wife) at the point Biden leans into the camera and says “I need you!” (15:42 in the video above)
On “They are Newton’s Laws of Motion”
There is also the fact that this ‘fact’ of un-Newtoning to decenter whiteness is the characterization of “an upperclassman” (note that it is not stated that they took the class) as transcribed by Bari Weiss. (And they relayed by a conservative on Twitter)
So there’s a filter here. I don’t think Weiss has quite the same reputation as ‘just so’ quotes as say, Salena Zito, but also a look a Weiss’s biography shows she’s been a lot more in the editor and commentary role than an actual beat reporter.
On “Wednesday Writs: Chief Justice Roberts All By Himself”
This more or less happened with the majority of suits against Trump in his capacity as President. E.g. for alleged violations of the emoluments clause.
The suits were filed in the first year of the Trump admin, but by the time they had reached their way to the Supreme Court, it was past Jan 20 2021, and they were dismissed as moot.
Which makes the timing of the decision in this particular suit, with it’s eight vote agreement, kinda curious. In hindsight, the various state AG and advocacy groups I guess should have included some nominal damage claim
On “The Ethics of Sport: Heading Home”
I'm wondering if in 1908 this was ahead of a trend, or on trend.
That is, I had thought that thin women were not considered 'conventionally attractive' until Hollywood really started to get going in the late 1910's-early 1920's
On “The Real Park Waste Gatherer At Home”
Was wondering if the one comment on this was already someone noting that the same stick to pick up trash was the one used to carry the roast.
And if the roast was in fact picked from trash.
On “The Nickel That Rolled In the Pocket”
huh, til.
On “HR 1 ‘For the People Act ’’ Passed In the House: Read It For Yourself”
ah thanks for the correction
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And if people are still up now, they can here the Senate version being read aloud in its entirety on the Senate floor.
On “The Race For The 93rd Best Picture Oscar: The Nomination Stage”
Eh, like Mr. Mendez points out, the effective cancelation of the 2020 movie season didn’t alter the game too much, with the peculiar qualification requirements for Oscar nominations* which in turn only had to tweaked a little.
*i.e. iirc normally they only have to be shown for a week in certain NYC & LA theaters. Wide release was never necessary, and for years now, studios have gamed the system to only show their Oscar bait movies for the minimum time, then re release for wider distribution if they win or get enough buzz.
On “The Nickel That Rolled In the Pocket”
Question the historical accuracy on this one; there’s not an onion in sight, much less on anyone’s belt.
(Though maybe because this is the buffalo nickel era not the bumblebee nickel one?)
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I think he’s just using jitney as a slang for ‘piece of junk’. I.e “why are you wasting your time looking for that relatively worthless thing”
On “Percy Archibald”
Future tense of ‘what are you going to call him’ indicates to me that this was still the era where infants weren’t given names until several months after birth, sometimes up to a year or two.
On “Killjoys vs Marriage”
Lifetime crapehanger count is up to at least three, if we consider crepe and crape to be equal.
https://ordinary-times.com/2019/02/07/taking-the-joy-out-movie-crepehanger/
On “Saturday Spins: Soundtracks Vol 1, 2001: A Space Odyssey”
To be fair, that's the popular experience with the entirety of European classical music. Everyone knows the under 5 minute bop portion of a given piece, nobody wants to stick around for the hour long 4 movement listen of its entirety
On “Animated Graphic: The Largest Armies in the World 1816-2020”
I think they miss the USA’s brief surge in the Mexican American war, where most sources have the US Army numbering at least 40k-60k troops. (One source say the regular army was only 30k, but there were another 60k volunteers)(or volunteers brought the total strength to 60k, it’s not clear)
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