Archive for 2020
August 23, 2020
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: China: Three Gorges dam hits highest level, anxiety grows among public.
LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: Hungry New Yorkers form quarter-mile line for free food in Queens.
OPEN THREAD: Buy me a drink, sing me a song, take me as I am ’cause I can’t stay long.
MOCKUPS GOOD, WORKING SPACECRAFT BETTER: Blue Origin team delivers lunar lander mockup to NASA.
DIXIECRATS IN THE STRANGEST PLACES:
Including Howard Fineman of the Huffington Post, formerly of Newsweek:
Flashback:
A political party is dying before our eyes — and I don’t mean the Democrats. I’m talking about the “mainstream media,” which is being destroyed by the opposition (or worse, the casual disdain) of George Bush’s Republican Party; by competition from other news outlets (led by the internet and Fox’s canny Roger Ailes); and by its own fraying journalistic standards. At the height of its power, the AMMP (the American Mainstream Media Party) helped validate the civil rights movement, end a war and oust a power-mad president. But all that is ancient history.
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The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans. The problem was that, once the AMMP declared its existence by taking sides, there was no going back. A party was born.
—“The ‘Media Party’ is over,” Howard Fineman, MSNBC, January 13, 2005.
DON’T GET COCKY: Signs of a Coming Trump Victory.
THAT’S AN INSULT TO JERRY LEWIS: Bill Maher: DNC Was Like Watching a Telethon at 2 in the Morning.
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “I just really don’t think ‘save the post office’ is the rallying cry the left thinks it is.”
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: August 2020 And The Democratic State Of Election Interference.
I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN THE PROTESTS WERE SUPPOSED TO HONOR GEORGE FLOYD: Rioters Hit Denver, Smash Family-Owned Sandwich Shop.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: How Ellen DeGeneres’s Public Image Collapsed.
LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT-CHECKERS AND EDITORS:
The NASCAR reference was removed from the lede, but it’s still in the URL: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/23/us/indy-500-nascar-spt-trnd/index.html
And as of the time of this post, it’s still in the “lite” smartphone-oriented version of the article:
STAY TUNED: Trump to reveal “major therapeutic breakthrough on the China Virus” later today: White House. “President Trump plans to reveal a ‘major therapeutic breakthrough’ on the coronavirus today at 6 p.m. in a news conference, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Twitter.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Review: Heckler & Koch SP5 Pistol. Looks like an MP5.