Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Armond White: "Kanye Goes Back to the Old Landmark"
Friday, October 26, 2018
Megyn Kelly
(Her show, Megyn Kelly Today was opposite The Wendy Williams Show. You know which one I'd always watch.)
29 October update: Late last week, Megyn Kelly Today was still listed for this week on the channel guide, but is now listed as Today Third Hour. And the last airing of her show on Friday (a rerun), was mostly pre-empted by coverage of the mail bombings. A fitting end.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Max Blumenthal in Harper's
My scoop for @Harpers: Just days before her surprise resignation, Nikki Haley met in secret with the Council for National Policy, a group that essentially represents the vast right-wing conspiracy. I was the only reporter in the room when she spoke. https://t.co/sK9Z2juMHL pic.twitter.com/1H0zHRobhm
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) October 17, 2018
19 October update: It turns out Max wrote this for Browsings, the Harper's blog, and not the print magazine itself. Nevertheless, the article marks his first appearance in Harper's. He gets back into his Republican Gomorrah groove as he details Nikki Haley's "pilgrimage" (a week prior to her resignation as UN ambassador) to the "decidedly immoderate, highly secretive organization of right-wing, mostly evangelical Republican operatives known as the Council for National Policy, or CNP."
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Brexit as an Example of The Long Emergency
Friday, October 12, 2018
Avenatt1 the Avaricious
Avenatti tweets "chip in for Beto now" with an ActBlue link. But unless his followers click on that link in the text, they might not realize that only half of their donation is actually going to Beto. The other half goes to Avenatti's PAC. pic.twitter.com/dNA1enZR7G
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) October 11, 2018
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Ford Fairlane is superior to A Star is Born and Andrew Dice Clay's performance was better back then. Remember that unforgettable line about Sting? https://t.co/lowvX1wd6B
— armond white (@3xchair) October 11, 2018
Ford Fairlane is superior to A Star is Born and Andrew Dice Clay's performance was better back then. Remember that unforgettable line about Sting? --Armond White (@3xchair), Twitter, 11 October 2018
[To wit: "Is Sting really an a--hole?"]
Monday, October 08, 2018
Filling a city with an inadequate public transport system with speed cameras and doubling the fines after 2 weeks is one more thing @MayorBowser does to make DC uninhabitable for the working poor. Now she wants to quintuple fines & lower speed limits to 15 mph in some areas. https://t.co/uJKiMlrKIp
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) October 8, 2018
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Friday, September 28, 2018
"A Particularly Catholic Realm of Elite DC Suburban Preppy Culture"
The #KavanaughHearings offer an unsettling look at a particularly Catholic realm of elite DC suburban preppy culture. So many layers of damage there, all the way down to Kavanaugh and Judge's marriage & sex counselor, who also taught Neal Gorsuch. https://t.co/CqK9isSKKq pic.twitter.com/h8Tw5C6nfF
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) September 27, 2018
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
On Peak Knowledge (a post in progress)
Monday, September 24, 2018
A Sign of Peak Oil?
I do believe this is first time House of Saud has ever said it was incapable of increasing capacity https://t.co/ArRuxYe961
— Joe Costello (@ofbyforbook) September 22, 2018
Friday, September 21, 2018
Ralph Norman
At @gebiofuel with @RepRalphNorman and bio Joe Renwick in Winnsboro, SC - tasting clean biofuel made from used cooking oil pic.twitter.com/rbS2lFQYBo
— Matt Moore (@MattMooreSC) September 19, 2018
Monday, September 17, 2018
Megan McArdle
I would be cool with a teen murderer getting a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. I think there's good reason we expunge juvenile records, and would raise the expungement age to 21.
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) September 14, 2018
Saturday, September 15, 2018
Here is the video of Ferguson activists protesting Deray book tour. pic.twitter.com/Mcm9hRKcwu
— .YoNasDa Lonewolf (@QueenYoNasDa) September 14, 2018
Friday, September 14, 2018
Edroso's New E-Newsletter
Enjoying @edroso's new newsletter, incl this LOL moment: "The Federalist isn't some fringe operation -- it's run by Ben Domenech, former celebrity plagiarist and husband of Meghan McCain, sort of a Richie Aprile of the conservative movement." Subscribe! https://t.co/htTx5eAwTt
— Nancy Nall Derringer (@nnall) September 14, 2018
Monday, September 10, 2018
1. Re @RuleandRuin’s grumpy piece on the historiography of conservatism (https://t.co/G3ols3owF1), @TomSugrue offers the full-throated defense of the discipline’s honor: https://t.co/20TalVTsja. I have a more specific point, undeniably motivated by some “presentist” concerns.
— Sam Rosenfeld (@sam_rosenfeld) September 10, 2018
Monday, September 03, 2018
Kunstler: The Uncomfortable Hiatus
And so the sun seems to stand still this last day before the resumption of business-as-usual, and whatever remains of labor in this sclerotic republic takes its ease in the ominous late summer heat, and the people across this land marinate in anxious uncertainty. What can be done?
Some kind of epic national restructuring is in the works. It will either happen consciously and deliberately or it will be forced on us by circumstance. One side wants to magically reenact the 1950s; the other wants a Gnostic transhuman utopia. Neither of these is a plausible outcome. Most of the arguments ranging around them are what Jordan Peterson calls “pseudo issues.” Let’s try to take stock of what the real issues might be.
Energy: The shale oil “miracle” was a stunt enabled by supernaturally low interest rates, i.e. Federal Reserve policy. Even The New York Times said so yesterday (The Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground). For all that, the shale oil producers still couldn’t make money at it. If interest rates go up, the industry will choke on the debt it has already accumulated and lose access to new loans. If the Fed reverses its current course — say, to rescue the stock and bond markets — then the shale oil industry has perhaps three more years before it collapses on a geological basis, maybe less. After that, we’re out of tricks. It will affect everything.
The perceived solution is to run all our stuff on electricity, with the electricity produced by other means than fossil fuels, so-called alt energy. This will only happen on the most limited basis and perhaps not at all. (And it is apart from the question of the decrepit electric grid itself.) What’s required is a political conversation about how we inhabit the landscape, how we do business, and what kind of business we do. The prospect of dismantling suburbia — or at least moving out of it — is evidently unthinkable. But it’s going to happen whether we make plans and policies, or we’re dragged kicking and screaming away from it.
Corporate tyranny: The nation is groaning under despotic corporate rule. The fragility of these operations is moving toward criticality. As with shale oil, they depend largely on dishonest financial legerdemain. They are also threatened by the crack-up of globalism, and its 12,000-mile supply lines, now well underway. Get ready for business at a much smaller scale.
Hard as this sounds, it presents great opportunities for making Americans useful again, that is, giving them something to do, a meaningful place in society, and livelihoods. The implosion of national chain retail is already underway. Amazon is not the answer, because each Amazon sales item requires a separate truck trip to its destination, and that just doesn’t square with our energy predicament. We’ve got to rebuild main street economies and the layers of local and regional distribution that support them. That’s where many jobs and careers are.
Climate change is most immediately affecting farming. 2018 will be a year of bad harvests in many parts of the world. Agri-biz style farming, based on oil-and-gas plus bank loans is a ruinous practice, and will not continue in any case. Can we make choices and policies to promote a return to smaller scale farming with intelligent methods rather than just brute industrial force plus debt? If we don’t, a lot of people will starve to death. By the way, here is the useful work for a large number of citizens currently regarded as unemployable for one reason or another.
Pervasive racketeering rules because we allow it to, especially in education and medicine. Both are self-destructing under the weight of their own money-grubbing schemes. Both are destined to be severely downscaled. A lot of colleges will go out of business [Note: I'll keep track of colleges going defunct.--P.Z.]. Most college loans will never be paid back (and the derivatives based on them will blow up). We need millions of small farmers more than we need millions of communications majors with a public relations minor. It may be too late for a single-payer medical system. A collapsing oil-based industrial economy means a lack of capital, and fiscal hocus-pocus is just another form of racketeering. Medicine will have to get smaller and less complex and that means local clinic-based health care. Lots of careers there, and that is where things are going, so get ready.
Government over-reach: the leviathan state is too large, too reckless, and too corrupt. Insolvency will eventually reduce its scope and scale. Most immediately, the giant matrix of domestic spying agencies has turned on American citizens. It will resist at all costs being dismantled or even reined in. One task at hand is to prosecute the people in the Department of Justice and the FBI who ran illegal political operations in and around the 2016 election. These are agencies which use their considerable power to destroy the lives of individual citizens. Their officers must answer to grand juries.
As with everything else on the table for debate, the reach and scope of US imperial arrangements has to be reduced. It’s happening already, whether we like it or not, as geopolitical relations shift drastically and the other nations on the planet scramble for survival in a post-industrial world that will be a good deal harsher than the robotic paradise of digitally “creative” economies that the credulous expect. This country has enough to do within its own boundaries to prepare for survival without making extra trouble for itself and other people around the world. As a practical matter, this means close as many overseas bases as possible, as soon as possible.
As we get back to business tomorrow, ask yourself where you stand in the blather-storm of false issues and foolish ideas, in contrast to the things that actually matter.
Friday, August 31, 2018
Toronto Rant
Oh god: A guy just walked by with two squash racquets sticking out of his bag. And Rick Astley is playing on the video screens. If it weren’t for the smartphones, I’d think I walked into an ‘80s time warp.
— Nancy Nall Derringer (@nnall) August 30, 2018
With this site, maybe the bar could be located, or at least guessed at.
1 September update: This list of the top fifteen squash courts and clubs in Toronto would be helpful too.
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Via @SRothbell
look at this amazing flyer @Juggolantern and I made to remind #EchoParkRising attendees that “revitalization” is displacement #EchoParkRisingRent pic.twitter.com/OmR6cz5xHe
— tracy jeanne rosenthal #yeson10 (@xxexegesis) August 18, 2018
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Wait. @Madonna aka Madge can open schools, hospitals and raise almost a million dollars for underprivileged kids and Twitter judges are silent..but let her tell a story about how Aretha influenced her and she is trending. It's not Madonna with screwed up priorities it's you.
— Don (@DonWayneHair1) August 21, 2018
.@NickiMinaj and @Madonna showing each other love backstage at the #VMAs. pic.twitter.com/tTGXsKWsrp
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) August 21, 2018
Madonna getting embalmed pic.twitter.com/vrznTKV2Vn
— Christian (@christianismad) August 21, 2018
Mad. Indeed.
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Aretha Franklin died this morning. I found out about 5:30 a.m. Hawaii time. There's still much of her music I haven't heard but should like to.
Wednesday, August 01, 2018
Stoop-id People, f.k.a. Post
Yep. https://t.co/zkMibAaZjP pic.twitter.com/dbWBhdj7UW
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) August 1, 2018
Another instance of New York slowly becoming like a theme park, according to Jeremiah Moss.
Two things that occur to me:
I keep thinking about that fake stoop. The stoop, so utterly urban, normally brings the inside out; facing the street, it engages residents with the sidewalk ballet.
Lately, I've been watching reruns of Hey Arnold! on Teen Nick. One of the minor characters is named Stoop Kid. He doesn't just hang out on the stoop but lives on it, and apparently never leaves it. And not only doesn't he "engage with the sidewalk ballet" he actively rejects it, shouting at passersby who seem to get too close to his stoop, not unlike the stereotypical old man yelling at people to get off his lawn.
CBGB was never an abbreviation but an acronym: "Its full name of CBGB & OMFUG stands for 'Country, Bluegrass, Blues and Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers'."--Wikipedia
