I just counted the Trump tweets, starting at his first mention of Hurricane Harvey until a few minutes ago. I thought it might give me a view into the heart of Trumpness. (Plus, it’s still better than actually reading the damn things.) Trump first mentioned Hurricane Harvey on August 24th, a day before landfall. Since then, Trump has focused tons of his limited attention...
Republicans, the party of rural America, the party of real Americans — working Americans, patriotic Americans — are, as usual, looking to screw those Americans in favor of their new corporate gods. And the FCC doesn’t care, either. One of the goals of the Federal Communications Commission is to get more people fast access to the Internet. They’ve struggled for years with it. There are...
As a white man, I’m deeply embarrassed. How could I have believed the racist stories? The same way I believed all those stories when I was a kid. Yes, I’m a white guy. And I’m not just vaguely white, I’m a seriously white guy. In American race relations, I don’t epitomize ‘clueless,’ but I might be in contention for the title. I was raised in...
People have told us that it’s difficult to know who wrote each post. We have several different authors, who are also a little put off by that. The site lists authors names on single-post pages, but not on the main page. Unfortunately, having the system add ‘written by’ to each post is harder than it looks. You’d think it would be simple, but the overall...
I was watching a level of lying on CNN yesterday that was so breathtaking, I still struggle to understand it. I’m trying not to jump to anger because anger doesn’t help me. (Plus, ‘jumping to anger’ is pretty much Chockamo’s job description, and he does it so much better.) It was an impossible mix of disingenuous lying and misogyny. I wrote a couple of notes...
Some things are hard not to notice. Like Trump telling Mexico to drop dead. After Hurricane Harvey hit Texas, Mexico offered significant aid to America. They provided huge support after Hurricane Katrina, with meals, portable water treatment facilities, and the like, and they made a similar offer now to Texas. They did this despite Trump’s insults because denying aid to hurting people would be insane....
Pity the poor Donald. Poor, poor baby. I routinely wince through Trump’s Twitter feed because it’s helpful in…. No, I guess it’s not really ‘helpful’. OK, so I read his thumb-ings because that’s how he shows what he believes…. No, no, not that either. He doesn’t believe anything beyond his own greatness (which he doesn’t really believe, either). That and all those scary brown people...
There are any number of theories about Hurricane Irma, and Harvey before it. The amount of unadulterated crazy on display is… educational. But I think they’re all missing the point. Apparently, big storms don’t just happen. That would be too random. But they aren’t being made worse by climate change, either. That would be too non-random; too unbelievable. Human activity is too small to change...
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