Author Archive: Stephen Green
December 4, 2019
NEVER TOO WOKE: Chris Pratt Forced to Apologize for Water Bottle.
SYNERGY: ABC Turns News Department Into Disney PR.
What’s the point of buying a dying news division if you can’t turn it into a profit-generating propaganda outfit for the rest of the company?
THE BILL PASSED 407-TO-1: China protests as US House passes Uygur bill demanding sanctions over human rights abuses in Xinjiang camps. “It would prohibit the export of certain US technologies that could be used in state-sponsored suppression.”
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Iran Orders U.S. to Pay $130 Billion in Reparations. “Threatens to annihilate U.S., Britain, Israel, Saudi Arabia.”
INCLUDING FROM DONALD TRUMP, PRESUMABLY: Hillary Says She Has Been ‘Deluged’ With Requests to Run for President Again.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. Holy Schiff! Phone Records Show Schiff Spied on Giuliani, Rep. Devin Nunes, and a ‘Hill’ Reporter.
CHANGE: Google Co-Founders Page, Brin Give Up Management Roles.
Although still closely identified with the company, the co-founders have been a dwindling visible presence inside the Mountain View, Calif., campus for years, current and former employees say.
Google faces an unusually fierce collection of threats this year. Competitors like Amazon.com Inc. are chipping at its online-advertising business, while state and federal regulators are beginning broad investigations of purported anticompetitive behavior. Google has pledged to cooperate with the inquiries.
“While it has been a tremendous privilege to be deeply involved in the day-to-day management of the company for so long, we believe it’s time to assume the role of proud parents,” Messrs. Page and Brin wrote in the letter. “We plan to continue talking with Sundar regularly, especially on topics we’re passionate about.”
Maybe we could mark the occasion than with an antitrust investigation.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Will the Real Kamala Harris Please Step Down. “Because the Democrats have to look at everything through the prism of diversity politics, there will probably no one among them that does a sober, realistic post mortem about Harris’s failure.”
UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: India farmer paints dog to look like tiger to protect coffee crop from monkeys.
YOU CAN CHECK OUT ANY TIME YOU LIKE, BUT YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE: Leave California, Keep Paying California Taxes… Really.
ADVENTURE TOURISM: Drug Cartels Muscle Into Mexican Town Packed With Americans. “Violent gangs are pushing cocaine and imposing a brutal brand of property tax on small businesses in San Miguel de Allende.”
PLEASE, LORD, SAVE US FROM THOSE WHO WOULD SAVE US: Forget ‘Medicare for All.’ Mayor Pete Wants to Give Health Care a Social Justice Overhaul.
December 3, 2019
BEN SASSE ON MIKE BLOOMBERG: “The Kind of Stupid You Can’t Script.”
PREDICTIONS ARE HARD, ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE FUTURE: Predicting The Order Democrats Exit the Clown Car.
UGH: Measles outbreak spurred by anti-vaxxers shuts down Samoan government. “Of the 53 dead, 48 are children aged 4 and younger.”
RACISM AND/OR SEXISM, STRAIGHT UP: Kamala Harris is dropping out of the presidential election today, I’m told reliably. She’s informing staff now.