Reaction to Reactions: Bhad Bhabie

Is Bhad Bhabie the first to post a reaction video to reaction videos to her song? I don't know but she can dish it out.

Excellent blog by @richardheinberg on why in 2005 peak oil advocates like us couldn't see the shale boom coming, and will struggle to get our message that it is in fact a giant Ponzi scheme out before the bubble bursts https://t.co/mZLXBQLDtT Meanwhile: pic.twitter.com/6GSXUw7K0d

— Jeremy Leggett (@JeremyLeggett) March 7, 2018

How Things Have Changed

Baltimorean who is 41 with zero retirement savings who has never had a six-figure government job with a pension says people who have to go to work all fucking day and still make time to do whatever they can to “fix” Baltimore are sick of these rich fucking scolds.

https://t.co/YAD1yRMH0r

— Snazzy! Snazzi! Snazzé! (@disnazzio) May 24, 2018

New rule, if you were born before 1970 or if you have ever made 100k or more in a year, you don’t get to use the word “whining” anymore. We heard you the first 500 fucking trillion times you tiresome dicks.

— Snazzy! Snazzi! Snazzé! (@disnazzio) May 24, 2018

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Don't Hate, Appreciate.

I don't often agree with Nancy Nall but I like what she says here. Below are some examples of said self-righteous/Debbie Downer types hating on the royals.

I'm-a gonna watch at least part of the royal wedding tomorrow, I'm-a enjoy it, and none of you wet blankets, dweebs and won't-someone-think-of-the-poor-of-England hand-wringers are going to harsh my mellow. Life contains both misery and celebrations, and this one has great hats.

— Nancy Nall Derringer (@nnall) May 18, 2018

That £30m royal wedding swindle represented everything wrong with the UK https://t.co/kGzRPcXCq3 via @willmwhiteman

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) May 21, 2018

My two cents on whatever it was that happened yesterday https://t.co/7Yzm52yTIB

— William Whiteman (@willmwhiteman) May 20, 2018

No they’re inbred parasitical morons. https://t.co/ksCZPXkU1o

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) May 20, 2018

To which @ljhickey24 says:

We’ll take the Royals off ur hands in exchange for Trump & Family

— maryjane ☘️ (@ljhickey24) May 20, 2018

Hey media companies: “in case I missed the royal wedding”? I didn’t miss it. I skipped it. That was on purpose. Quit reminding me of something I was intentionally avoiding.

— Ted Rall (@TedRall) May 20, 2018

The Volcano

Sometime I'll look back at the news coverage of the current eruption and see what was the most false, or sensationalistic. The ignorance about Hawaii is understandable, but if people want to inform themselves they can do so more easily than they could have even a decade ago.

Kunstler: Fun and Games

Kunstler: Fun and Games.

Dude. I haven’t worn pants in, I think, 3 years.

Outside of running shoes for working out, no shoes in 2 years.https://t.co/PAOv5EFtFj

— TBogg - Totally King of New New California (@tbogg) May 6, 2018

Another Way to Celebrate May Day

MayDay: Saving Our Archives! On May 1-this year & every year-you can do something that will make a difference when & if an emergency occurs. That’s the purpose of MayDay-a grassroots effort whose goal is to save our archives. See @archivists_org MayDay https://t.co/6Witu7TbjM pic.twitter.com/9DZNGl1koF

— SAA Preservation (@SAApreservation) April 25, 2018

Walmiki and Malhar

Walmiki and Malhar: Two Endangered Languages Discovered.

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Kunstler: That Collapse You Ordered...?

Kunstler: That Collapse You Ordered ... ?

Here's a mild take as a palette-cleanser: pic.twitter.com/UAcQXlM354

— 🚨New Music Drama🚨 (@NewMusicDrama) April 16, 2018

That's "palate-cleanser."

Do you have pizza? pic.twitter.com/UxL5EWUUXI

— Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) April 5, 2018

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Fifty Years After He Was Slain

Before his assassination in 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. started to realize his "dream" had become a nightmare. MLK then started working on the #PoorPeoplesCampaign so we can get our "check." It's no surprise mainstream media won't play this footage even on this day. #MLK50 pic.twitter.com/k6S3izFyKZ

— The Black Detour (@theblackdetour) April 4, 2018

He was complicated.

The People of the Ruins, by Edward Shanks

Before now, I had heard neither of the book nor the writer. It's available in various formats at The Internet Archive.

"Changing Library Practices in Times of Austerity."

The H-Net Book Channel: "From the Web: Changing Library Practices in Times of Austerity."

Save the UT Libraries! -- A library without books is NOT a library.

Mother and her two teenagers pass this pop-art piece depicting Reagan at the Hirshhorn. “Who is that?” she asks the daughter, who doesn’t know. Distressed, she then asks her son: “Who is that?” He doesn’t know. The look on her face... pic.twitter.com/HhNo4rN3k8

— Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) March 31, 2018

They probably think Paul Newman is the old dude who makes salad dressing.

Hi everyone! A tweeting mistake on our part meant to tell you earlier this week that Underground has officially moved to Friday nights again (that’s right now!) — we’re still on the air, we promise!

— TCM Underground (@TCMUnderground) March 10, 2018

What was that I was saying about the lack of religious literacy in the national media? https://t.co/fI0CvWTNuZ

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) March 31, 2018

Because my ability to keep up with good stuff that I should be reading is barely adequate I missed this superb tribute to "adequacy" as a concept & a standard for most people most of the time. One does something well enough to contribute &/or to enjoy. https://t.co/DgRMfY9qQ0

— Jim Grossman (@JimGrossmanAHA) March 22, 2018

Rappers Discussing Rappers

How historians @jmjafrx and @marthasjones_ extended the reach of their graduate seminar far beyond @JohnsHopkins . Any historian can do this: #EverythinghasaHistory & all histories have people who are interested. https://t.co/aWjkG4bIRm

— Jim Grossman (@JimGrossmanAHA) March 22, 2018

CeCe Rogers, "All Join Hands."

The Lessons of a School Shooting--in 1853

The Lessons of a School Shooting–in 1853 via @politicomag https://t.co/WSjMbONrmH #everythinghasahistory

— History Bizarre (@HistoryBizarre) March 25, 2018

#Everythinghasahistory

#EverythinghasaHistory https://t.co/PAYg44ABhe

— Jim Grossman (@JimGrossmanAHA) March 27, 2018

Nachlass (Nachlaß)

is what I need to learn more about.

A single computer failure can wipe out an entire digital photo collection, destroying years of a family's carefully curated memories.
How can library and information professionals help? https://t.co/jVMYn3Hwci#digitalarchive #archiving #digitalpreservation #digitalmemory pic.twitter.com/Ha7w5DSAFj

— Facet Publishing (@facetpublishing) March 22, 2018

every archivist has done this. there's no shame. we all have to eat. https://t.co/CQwbIiPTQo

— Mayne Gauche (@Bibliocracy) March 21, 2018

Just in time for #NEAARTSP18! JCAS volume 5, article 1 has been published: https://t.co/UcIMQC1it3

Meghan Rinn of @BarnumMuseum discusses gaps in subject headings related to disabilities.@NEarchivists @ArchivistsRT pic.twitter.com/5IVfU5m7El

— Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies (@JCASonline) March 22, 2018

No More Kings, "Sweep the Leg."

Paul Lekakis, "Boom Boom (Let's Go Back to My Room)."

An Essay About the Anthropocene

An essay by Richard Seymour about the Anthropocene. Much to ponder.

Johnny Halliday

The children of Johnny Hallyday are fighting his widow over his will.

Kunstler: Not So Happy Motoring.

Kunstler: Not So Happy Motoring.

On another note, this is interesting: U.S. Utilities Look To Electric Cars As Their Savior Amid Decline In Demand.

Jan Adams makes a dystopian prediction re: driverless cars.

31 March update:

bumping this again after reading the @nytimes story on the recent Model X crash, which it incorrectly called the “second fatal crash in which the Autopilot system.” https://t.co/i9jExgMOM6 https://t.co/KOIsZkVest

— Ryan Felton (@ryanfelton) March 31, 2018

Ratt, "Lay It Down."

Reel 2 Real feat. The Mad Stuntman, "I Like to Move It."

The Beverly Hillbillies: "The Clampetts Strike Oil."

Isn't That Something?

"Study: Cancer Vaccine Cures 97 Per Cent of Tumors in Mice, Human Trials to Begin Soon."

Thanks to Ian Lind's post today I found this:

Federation of American Scientists link to CRS Reports

Congressional Research Service [CRS] Reports

The Congressional Research Service, a component of the Library of Congress, conducts research and analysis for Congress on a broad range of national policy issues. While many CRS memoranda are generated in response to individual Member or staff inquiries and are confidential, most CRS reports are available to anyone who has access to a congressional intranet.

Yet at the direction of Congress, CRS does not make even its non-confidential publications directly available to the public online. In order to help overcome this unnecessary barrier, the Federation of American Scientists endeavors to provide current, regularly updated public access to as many non-confidential CRS reports as possible. These reports are provided without congressional or CRS authorization as a public service.

Past and Present

Like many other people I watched the Roseanne premiere last night.

Max Blumenthal opines:

.@ABC rewarding #Roseanne's long record of industrial level racism and anti-Palestinian incitement with a sitcom reboot is just another instance of corporate media fueling right-wing Trump culture https://t.co/pih8HpGcb0

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) March 28, 2018

The interesting thing to me is when something is revisited after many years, and seeing what changes and what stays the same. Imperial Bedrooms, the Bret Easton Ellis novel from 2010 is an example. Set twenty-five years after Less Than Zero, Imperial Bedrooms is current, but its characters haven't changed much. Rip may be constantly texting and watching CNN on a laptop, but he's still malevolent.

Then there's the new YouTube Red series, Cobra Kai. From what I can tell from the trailer h


http://democratherald.com/blogs/of-being-and-johnny-lawrence-sweep-the-leg/article_1b2d98b1-224f-51e8-9277-221c6ed38569.html

An Intriguing Book

I'll try to get and read a copy sometime.

What They Saw in America: Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb, by James L. Nolan, Jr. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Cilla Black, "Anyone Who Had a Heart"

So Bad It's Good

If you have free time and want a laugh, check out @WorstDamnTweet. It compiles tweets from everybody: Sh!tlibs, Kekistanners, the Acela Corridor (Beltway people), Clown Politicians (a redundancy?), Never Trumpers, Brits, the extremely online, celebrities....

Examples:

pic.twitter.com/NhP9UY1vhB

— WorstTweetAllTime (@WorstDamnTweet) March 26, 2018

REGION: CLOWN POLITICIANS PLAY-IN MATCH

Lieu's "Prison labor is good..."
vs.
King's "American babies..."

Whose tweet was worse?

— WorstTweetAllTime (@WorstDamnTweet) March 22, 2018

On the Decline of Philippine Spanish (a post in progress)

Quora.com: Do Filipinos Care About the Preservation of Philippine Spanish?"

On the Decline of German Restaurants

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/grandmas-food-how-changing-tastes-are-killing-german-restaurants/2018/03/19/de4c4994-0b93-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.250ca7fa21ff

Linked from NancyNall.com

Awkwafina, "NYC Bitche$"

Tolstoy was an pacifist anarchist,, u oaf https://t.co/0ZupMaxS20

— Carlgoyle Beijer (@CarlBeijer) March 6, 2018

This Blog is Twelve

The twelfth anniversary of this blog came and went, and I realized it just yesterday. That shows how hectic things have been lately. They've been discussing small towns a lot recently at NancyNall.com. Much I can say--if I can find the time. I doubt any of the commenters are familiar with Kunstler.

Three Women Who Launched a Movement https://t.co/b6Tt7PavWN #InternationalWomensDay

— David Boaz (@David_Boaz) March 8, 2018

Some Historians to Check Out

That said, I'm just a simple, country 20th-century historian. Let me tag in some 19th-century folks who actually work on these issues. @Ed_Baptist @arothmanhistory @HC_Richardson @rothmanistan @TheTattooedProf @KevinLevin @karpmj

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 7, 2018

On Uber and Ambulances

This is called an ambulance. It already exists. WHY IS TECH SO FUCKING DETERMINED NOT TO ADVANCE A DAMNED THING? https://t.co/7FDmLZ2KQm

— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) March 2, 2018

Gryphon

Ougenweide - Nieman kan mit Gerten

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/wj4byz/spring-hipster-runoff-generation-essay

Lent is coming, and the Anglican Church in North America has launched an internet resource, https://t.co/OmP9j3Flfl, to support the Church in the Lenten disciplines of prayer and almsgiving. Learn more here: https://t.co/PXrnUCnCsV @anglicanaid @Matthew25i #Lent2018 #Anglican pic.twitter.com/Eq37xvGuJa

— ACNA (@The_ACNA) February 13, 2018

Horse Power

UC Stereotypes Explained

NorCal Asians vs. SoCal Asians

Smiley, "I Love My Religion"

Freddy Meiway, "200% Zoblazo."

The Chainsmokers, "#SELFIE"

Fellow Orthodox Christians: We all dread all the beans we have to eat during Lent. I made a crazy delicious pot of cannellini beans using loads of Bavarian seasoning mix from @TheSpiceHouse. You gotta try it! https://t.co/C128fdV1lP

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) March 1, 2018

Does anybody want to buy a computer collection I have been gathering since 1993? This is less than half of it. I am considering a move, and I'm not sure these can go with me to the new place. Would love to keep them all together somehow. Want to start a museum? pic.twitter.com/lG7b3PuDUg

— Benj Edwards (@benjedwards) February 26, 2018