Category: Media
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Post-election Intramurals Edition
It’s Intramurals for Harsh Your Mellow Monday; Team Blue’s AOC v. Joe Manchin, Team Red’s Crenshaw v. Green, Fox News v. MAGA in media, plus much more.
But My Group Wants to Parler All The Time, Parler All The Time
Is the latest Twexit to Parler really the changing of the social media guard, or is something else going on here?
You Do Not, In Any Way Shape or Form, Have to Hand It to Jeffrey Toobin
How a little fame, an ability to tell people what they want to hear, and a glib tongue will buy you the privilege of career survival
Bae Humbug! Sacha Baron Cohen and the Pranking of Truth
Sacha Baron Cohen is the rich person’s Logan Paul, and just as repellant, just as much of an abscess putrefying in the belly of free speech.
DOJ, 11 States File Anti-Trust Lawsuit Against Google
It’s been brewing for years, but the day has come. The US Government along with 11 states are going after Google.
Hanlon’s Razor and Why It Is Being Violated
People like Josh Hawley know what the end result of what they propose to do will be. Malice is the only word for it.
Et Tu, C-SPAN? Steve Scully Suspended For Claiming Tweet Was Hack
There was a hubbub about erstwhile moderator Steve Scully apparently messaging Anthony Scaramucci. Well, about that…
Information, But Dumber, Louder, and Wetter
Apparently it is some sort of time-honored ritual to make your meteorologist sacrifice themselves to the optics gods…but enough is enough.
Dancing In A Constant Feedback Loop: The Big Sort and COVID
Depending on the media you consume, COVID-19 is either a mild sickness blown out of proportion…or it is the end of America as we know it.
What If The Expected Actually Happens?
In which I argue for the possibility that maybe, just maybe, the expected…actually happens and maybe even smoothly at that.
A Tale of Two Resignation Letters
I’ve rubbed elbows with enough board members, who tend to skew old, rich, and patronizing the hired help, to take Kelli Morgan’s account at face value
The Misguidance Of Clark Kent
The following story is meant to be humorous, and is not intended to represent men of steel or any other alloy for that matter.
There Are No Better People
Superheroes aren’t real. All we have is people, and trading one group for another is not and never will be a cure for systemic flaws
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Orphans of Failure Edition
“Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.” So for Harsh Your Mellow Monday let us talk about some of those orphans of failure.
How Tan Was My MRAP
With police accountability very much in question, the easy and flippant lip service of “at no cost” and “find a way to use it” are grossly irresponsible
Aunt Jemima: 1889-2020
Pancake and syrup packaging will be getting a revision after 130 years, as the famous Aunt Jemima brand name and imagery is being permanently removed.
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: No Good Answers Edition
A shooting in Atlanta shows a reckoning is a hard to acquire, lessons in governing from Seattle summer camp, and the primary heats up…for 2024
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
I don’t care if you’re conservative, liberal, or otherwise, a media blackout on critically important news is concerning. Deeply concerning.
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Mission Creep and Opposite the Editors Edition
The dangers of mission creep in push for police reform, who watches the opinion section watchers of the New York Times, and stats that aren’t helpful.
