tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post3384600734727350711..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: The Gray Lady FlinchesKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-64746414475930658262017-07-30T22:40:20.071-04:002017-07-30T22:40:20.071-04:00On stories you can't find in the MSM and the i...On stories you can't find in the MSM and the issue of the Left joining forces with the Right, at least once in a while, Jeffrey St Clair posted a lively article about a week ago at CounterPunch. In his gossipy way he covers a lot of ground, for starters the recent tiff among CounterPoint writers––the not-so-good, the bad and the suspect. <br /><br />He does not put much stock on conspiracy theories (JFK, 9/11) or the Deep State Theory as the ultimate explanation behind the curtains. While there are forces that add up to the Deep State, it's not the only explanation for US disasters, nor should it serve as the main reason for repeated failure on the Left. Instead of looking in the mirror, the Left uses the Deep State Theory as its favorite rationalization for the Left's incompetence, in the same way the DNC is now using RussiaGate as an excuse for Hillary's 2016 defeat. <br /><br />St Clair follows with some interesting thoughts about the Greens, specifically, the likely reasons why, in the Oughts, Nader and the Greens parted company. How come the Greens carry on like purists and refuse to join coalitions? He even hints that the Greens may be serving as the ultimate DNC sheepdog under the generalship of one David Cobb, "the Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of the Green Party." Cobb is not against the Duopoly; he's a lesser-of-two-evils guy. Huh? Check out St Clair's links detailing the aftermath of the Green's poor showing in 2016, a year they should have surged.<br /><br />The Greens are not very democratic as they go about their party business, like primaries and nominating conventions. If you want to volunteer as a delegate, you're accepted provided you can pay your way to the convention, where you can vote as you please (or as directed), not according results of primaries in the state you represent. Hearing all this, should I vote Green again?Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-83851729958459756132017-07-30T09:53:32.118-04:002017-07-30T09:53:32.118-04:00Just fantastic. I know someone who calls the Gray...Just fantastic. I know someone who calls the Gray Lady - and he lived in NYC a long time - the New York Slimes. No wonder! And I knew these Russians who thought Krugman was the bee's knees. I thought of him as an overeducated shithead who went to way too many drinking parties on Long IslandClueless It Seemshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17360106724005651931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-27387002890425044062017-07-29T09:59:24.108-04:002017-07-29T09:59:24.108-04:00Here's another reason to switch off your TV: s...Here's another reason to switch off your TV: seeing is no longer believing.<br /><br />Thanks to lip synch researchers at the Universities of Washington and Stanford, you can, for example, see a president say something he never really said. Or say something in a red tie at night in a bar when he was really wearing a blue tie the first time he uttered those words at noon in the Rose Garden. With a heavy-duty app, ivory tower nerds can now splice together a picture of a speaker and his or her words any way they please and quite convincingly.<br /><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/07/12/scarily-convincing-fake-video-tool-puts-words-obamas-mouth/ <br /><br />Are you going to believe me, or your lying eyes, when Pope Francis appears at a Vatican balcony to say "Rome sucks. I'm moving the Vatican to Buenos Aires." Or Trump saying "I'm appointing Bernie Sanders as my chief economic advisor and Hillary Clinton as my new press secretary."<br /><br />The only solution left for reality huggers is to develop a tool that will read the thoughts in other people's minds. Oh wait, the NSA is already doing that, and the FBI with stings can fill in the gaps.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-86914422250072295062017-07-28T22:48:24.480-04:002017-07-28T22:48:24.480-04:00Want a good laugh? Read alternative titles for Hil...Want a good laugh? Read alternative titles for Hillary's new book.<br /><br />https://twitter.com/hashtag/BetterNamesForHillarysBook?src=hashannenigmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-27503810806707109622017-07-28T17:12:11.629-04:002017-07-28T17:12:11.629-04:00I'm adding to the blog roll all the time. I di...I'm adding to the blog roll all the time. I did include The-American Conservative several weeks ago, and most recently discovered a site called Keywords For the Age of Austerity, which is right up my alley of "dissecting" neoliberal dog whistles and double-speak. Check it out, it's reader friendly and pretty amusing.<br /><br />I don't pigeon-hole myself in terms of left or right, either, though I am mainly far left (not to be confused with liberal, heaven forfend!) A site like American Conservative or Reason is absolutely not the same thing as those misogynistic Donald Trump fan sites on Reddit, for example, or 4Chan. Most everything you read on the mainstream sites is boiled down to Republicans v. Democrats, period. Whatever is anti-war is legit in my book.<br /><br />As far as this particular site's logistics are concerned, I am as baffled as anyone about comments disappearing into the spam folder with no email notifications to me, among other glitches. I see that some other sites are complaining about the Google algorithm censoring them. (see today's World Socialist Website) Plus, I just noticed that the Google + app - whereby people can recommend your site for supposed higher rankings on Google search engine, has suddenly disappeared, with no explanation. My stats ebb and flow depending on who links to my stuff or shares on Facebook and Twitter, but overall, readership has increased quite a lot. I think one reason that commenting is down is because I rarely link to my blog from the New York Times, where I rarely comment any more. <br /><br />On that note, please keep the comments and suggestions and recommendations and discussions coming.<br /><br /> Have a great weekend, everybody! Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-69752266997032458602017-07-28T16:38:53.300-04:002017-07-28T16:38:53.300-04:00Karen,
I now know *What Happened to turn me '...Karen,<br /><br />I now know *What Happened to turn me 'Anonymous' here after having deliberately entered my name first so that I won't forget. <br /><br />After Previewing (I don't always click on Edit or Preview, when I hit Publish, it sends me to verify that I'm not a robot. That's when I noticed that my name has been deleted and I have to enter it again. <br /><br />Mystery solved, except why it never did that before this year, which of course means it's that dastardly Putin's fault or his stooge Trump. I'll have to tell Hillary so she can add it as evidence to her new book - *What Happenedannenigmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-43920660681596503982017-07-28T13:43:22.659-04:002017-07-28T13:43:22.659-04:00Krugman in 2006 (skip to section 5: "Single-p...Krugman in 2006 (skip to section 5: "Single-payer and beyond"): http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2006/03/23/the-health-care-crisis-and-what-to-do-about-it/KMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08488532333076478228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-71708478565353969772017-07-28T12:49:36.261-04:002017-07-28T12:49:36.261-04:00So that people you rub elbows with at cocktail par...So that people you rub elbows with at cocktail parties don't come to the view you've been spending your time on the far side of the moon, it's unfortunately necessary that you stay abreast of what's said, day after day, in the New York Times, and to a lesser extent, the related rags like WaPO, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and a smattering of the big cables.<br /><br />But if we want to know what's going on, as distinct from what the MSM is featuring as un-news, the Uniparty party line, mindless entertainment, ID politics and trivia, then we must turn to our very own blog roll. Long and often. Hopefully, friends, we all spend more time reading sites like those listed on the blog roll than we do the NY Times, right? Think of the blog roll as a Narcan reversal to the inescapable opioid overdose of the NY Times and its cousins––h/t Karl Marx.<br /><br />After reading Karen's aperçu du jour about today's edition of the Times, I needed my bolus of Narcan. I mean, aside from the NY Times hemming close to the party line today, isn't their overarching news story getting boring, that is, the endless shooting of the same fish (Trump) in the barrel? How many times is it necessary to make note of the fact that Trump is an uncouth liar cheat narcissist misogynist disorganized unbalanced SOB etc., etc., etc? We get it.<br /><br />So I ran over to the blog roll and, for starters, clicked on BAR.<br />https://blackagendareport.com/trump_faces_down_cia<br /> <br />Ha ! Just what I needed to restore my balance and, at least for the moment, to thank the gods for Trump. The top story on BAR today is about Trump's standing up to the CIA and Pentagon by nixing some of their worst plans for Syria, complete with a cartoon showing Obama saying "We must kill Syrians to keep Syrians from killing Syrians." You'll nevva-evva read anything about that in the NY Times.<br /><br />I grant you the NY Times does have challenging crossword puzzles. For novices.<br /><br />ADVISORY: Narcan has a shorter half life than morphine, which means the opiates will win out in the end unless you're regularly keeping up with fresh helpings of Narcan (i.e., our blog roll).<br /><br />As they say in Quebec, "Bonne lecture!" And as I've heard since forever: "Don't read good books; you only have time for the best." Maybe that advice carries over to dailies.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.com