Hard News: The next four years
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mark taslov, in reply to
Paul Anka's 'My Way'
Which shares motifs with Charles Dumont and Michel Vaucaire's 'Non, je ne regrette rien'
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Unbelievable. Republicans just voted down a bill that would "affirm that the Nazi regime targeted the Jewish people in its perpetration of the Holocaust" and condemn Trump's Holocaust Day statement. Talk about tribal politics. Won't sit too well with AIPAC...
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WH,
F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote:
in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.
South Korea. China. The Philippines. Cuba. Ghana. Germany.
Mary Lincoln, Nancy Reagan and a very odd phone call reportedly placed by Donald Trump.
Although this piece about John Key seems to be some kind of joke, the topic has come up more than you might think.
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mark taslov, in reply to
Applied to politics, the people who think that “interesting times” are interesting, probably aren’t thinking of the people for whom even minor extra difficulties could be enough to sink them.
I did mean it in the Chinese proverb sense :-)
One hope I have in this “post truth” era, is that people might begin to more deeply question some of the "truths" we habitually and culturally perpetuate:
Despite being widely attributed as a Chinese curse, there is no equivalent expression in Chinese.[2] The nearest related Chinese expression is “寧為太平犬，莫做亂離人” (nìng wéi tàipíng quǎn, mò zuò luàn lí rén), which is usually translated as “Better to be a dog in a peaceful time, than to be a human in a chaotic (warring) period."
Trump’s more or less unpresidented spurning of the protocols of US patriotism:
"There are a lot of killers. We have a lot of killers,” Trump said. “Well, you think our country is so innocent?"
immediately reminded me of Katharine’s prediction on page 5:
I have an uneasy feeling he might be a Pres that decides to deliver an ugly truth about certain things. He seems to have made a point of painting a very dismal picture of the more recent Washington establishment – I could see him using the office now to prove it to the people.
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A propos of nothing much in this thread except He Who Must Not Be Named being called one, can I recommend to you this delightful article about the linguistics of shitgibbon as an insult? It's worth thinking about, considering how many times portmanteau terms are nominated as WOTY.
Edit: See https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2017/02/09/the-rise-of-the-shitgibbon/ as well. Apparently, it's known as flyting.
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WH,
I went looking for this (which is pretty good I reckon) and came across this.
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andin, in reply to
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Yep and there's all manner of madness like...
Bannon now seems to be trying to bring about the Fourth Turning,
Bannon is convinced he see's method in the madness, Nah.
He's just projecting his madness into everything making it full blown methodical insanity. -
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More importantly Al Jarreau has died. His brand of smooth soul may not be to everyones taste, it was beautiful, especially when he did his scat vocal interlude's. RIP
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WH,
I understand your point of view.
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Neil,
A Trump appointee lying about contacts with Russia is not evidence that the Trump admin has had clandestine contact with Putin.
It is evidence that the Deep State is trying to distract us from Chelsea Clinton's tweets advocating war against Iran.
Anway, I was right and progressives and Hillary caused Trump. ELITES SQUAWK ELITES SQUAWK
Yours, GG
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andin, in reply to
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The sun must be shining where you are? you giving a speech by any chance? Check for rain or FO
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Neil, in reply to
I'm parodying not very subtly the disturbing intent-driven phenomenon of well financed people claiming to be against Trump and Putin but who campaigned against Hillary Clinton and who continue to attack people who are actually opposing Trump and Putin.
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WH,
This is Slate’s interesting take on ESPN’s in-game estimate that the Falcons were 99.8% likely to win Super Bowl LI. While the statistical gizmos tend to be a little over-confident, the end result was still very unusual:
Because these kinds of comebacks are so rare, Burke told me, it’s very difficult for him to benchmark his model with real NFL data. When sample sizes are smaller, we can be a lot less confident about the predictions we derive from those samples. Based on the evidence we do have and our knowledge of how many points a touchdown is worth, we know the Patriots’ victory in Super Bowl LI was extremely unlikely. It feels like faux precision, however, to say the Falcons were a 99.8 percent favorite with six minutes left to play in the third quarter.
As the author points out, a comeback from 25 points or more down has only happened on a handful of occasions in the history of the NFL. As far as I can tell, it’s happened five times in something like thirteen thousand regular season matches, or in about 0.05% of regular games.
All in all, an unlikely way to see off a season of unusual sporting results.
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WH,
This is Akhil Suhas’ short film of his trip around New Zealand.
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One thing leads to another...
I've just been reading through Christopher Fowler's 'Bryant and May' series - highly recommended for the inner polymath and fact hoarder - a comment at his website lead me to this marvellous piece of Live New Yorker copy editing...
WATCH: Andrew Boynton copy-edits recent speeches by Donald Trump.
the video is at the bottom of the linked RomCom in the Age of Trump piece.Should be live on television, I could watch for hours, as he just cuts away the crazy....
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I've found a new way to think about the ongoing range war between Trump and the press over the nature of reality .... Every time you hear a question about whether something Trump has said is true substitute "is wearing no clothes"
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Katharine Moody, in reply to
And remember who “the press” are:
Comcast
NBC
Telemundo
Universal Pictures
Focus Features
USA Network
Bravo
CNBC
The Weather Channel
MSNBC
Syfy
NBCSN
Golf Channel
Esquire Network
E!
Cloo
Chiller
Universal HD
Comcast SportsNet
Universal Parks & Resorts
Universal Studio Home VideoThe Walt Disney Company
ABC Television Network
ESPN
The Disney Channel
A&E
Lifetime
Marvel Entertainment
Lucasfilm
Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar Animation Studios
Disney Mobile
Disney Consumer Products
Interactive Media
Disney Theme Parks
Disney Records
Hollywood Records
Miramax Films
Touchstone PicturesNews Corporation
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox News Channel
Fox Business Network
Fox Sports 1
Fox Sports 2
National Geographic
Nat Geo Wild
FX
FXX
FX Movie Channel
Fox Sports Networks
The Wall Street Journal
The New York Post
Barron’s
SmartMoney
HarperCollins
20th Century Fox
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Blue Sky Studios
Beliefnet
ZondervanTime Warner
CNN
The CW
HBO
Cinemax
Cartoon Network
HLN
NBA TV
TBS
TNT
TruTV
Turner Classic Movies
Warner Bros.
Castle Rock
DC Comics
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
New Line Cinema
Sports Illustrated
Fortune
Marie Claire
People MagazineViacom
MTV
Nickelodeon
VH1
BET
Comedy Central
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Home Entertainment
Country Music Television (CMT)
Spike TV
The Movie Channel
TV LandCBS Corporation
CBS Television Network
The CW (along with Time Warner)
CBS Sports Network
Showtime
TVGN
CBS Radio, Inc.
CBS Television Studios
Simon & Schuster
Infinity Broadcasting
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
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And remember who “the press” are:
Strictly speaking this list is ‘the Media’
and leaves many of 'the Press' out
The Washington Post
The New York Times
The Guardian
The Independent
(and The ODT )
all have different ownership models
(Family business, Russian oligarch, cooperatives, etc)not to mention Condé Nast’s stable of publications….
plus many more I have forgotten I'm sure
;- )
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
IIRC the Washington Post is now majority owned by Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com fame, and the NYT's single biggest shareholder is Carlos Slim. You can also add Tribune Media (owner of the LA Times and Chicago Tribune).
Of the major media networks listed by Katharine above, only NewsCorp seems to have a newspaper division. The anti-trust law experts should be taking a good look at it.
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Swedish 3D artist Anders Ryttar created this cute take on Trumpet's bizarre handshake.
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Katharine Moody, in reply to
Also important to look at where Americans get their news from;
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Hilarious - so the President who is so concerned to warn his public about fake news about his administration, repeats some fake news about someone else's administration;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ami_Horowitz
Even more hilarious that Fox wasn't included in his tweets about fake news;
Oh what a tangled web....
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If you don't think that what didn't happen yesterday in Sweden can't not happen here, you better think again!
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So this happened.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/320249-cnn-host-abruptly-ends-segment-after-trump-surrogate-makes-fakeFor reference, Paris Dennard describes himself as a "GOP political commentator and consultant with over a decade of private and public sector experience on all levels of politics and public relations. In addition to his political background, for the past 20 years he has provided brand and image consulting and worked in the W. Bush White House
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