Nate Silver as a Result of Conservatives Working the Refs
In addition to checking KOS/538/Sam Wang, like most of you, I spent much of the last 10 days watching the back-and-forth on social media over Nate Silver (Jay Rosen has a nice compilation of the major...
View ArticleWhy People Use K-Cups: It's not about the coffee
When K-cups first came out I, like many older coffee drinkers (I'm 45), was under-whelmed. It wasn't a matter of taste as, being a graduate student, I was content to buy whatever coffee was on sale at...
View ArticleBoycott these 5 common products made in Indiana
I was inspired by Molly Weasley's diary of the other day, A few products to boycott from Indiana. After combing through the items on the pages she linked I came up with 5 common items from Indiana that...
View Article"The Police are America's Terrorists" (Deadspin)
This is an article worth sharing widely. It's not so much the sentiment, which is something you can find in any number of DKos journals or on various lefty blogs and news outlets: Witnessing all...
View ArticleFOP Using Paris Attacks to Argue for Off-Duty Cary at NFL Games
The National Fraternal Order of Police has sent a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodall requesting that off-duty cops be permitted to carry firearms at NFL games. The reason? ISIL, of course: The...
View ArticleDems Need to Go Big on Gun Control
The mass shooting in Las Vegas, NV made me, like many of you, take a look at what the Democratic Party had to say about gun control in their 2016 party platform: To build on the success of the...
View ArticleTrump's Military Parade is a "Participation Trophy" for the President.
If you have any conservative friends or family members who are on social media, you probably saw a number of “Participation Trophy” memes after the 2016 election. I’m not going to post any here, but...
View ArticlePre-NRA Dana Loesch's attempts to be relatable on Twitter
I was inspired by Barskin’s post on Paul Guyot’s tales of Dana Loesch’s acting career to share this Deadspin compilation of her attempts to be wacky and relatable on twitter in the late aughts. Sample...
View ArticleFull Text of 1934 Times Summary of Speech Urging Jews to be Civil in...
Like many of you, I was gobsmacked when Seashells posted her diary that linked to Angus Johnson’s twitter thread quoting Quaker Divinity Professor Henry Cadbury’s 1934 speech to a gathering of Rabbis...
View Article"The Fix," "Politifact" and the Problem with Insisting on Symmetrical Narratives
I’m sure many of you reading this diary saw Aaron Blake’s column for WaPo’s “The Fix” tut, tutting over AOC’s “very bad defense of her falsehoods.” For Blake, the offending passage occurred during...
View ArticleWaPo Buries Lede on Trump's Racism, Inappropriate Content When Meeting w/...
Not really sure what’s going on with this WaPo story. On first glance I thought it was a puff-piece on Trump to demonstrate “balance” after 35 days of reporting on his idiotic govt. shutdown. But down...
View ArticleNate Silver as a Result of Conservatives Working the Refs
In addition to checking KOS/538/Sam Wang, like most of you, I spent much of the last 10 days watching the back-and-forth on social media over Nate Silver (Jay Rosen has a nice compilation of the major...
View ArticleWhy People Use K-Cups: It's not about the coffee
When K-cups first came out I, like many older coffee drinkers (I'm 45), was under-whelmed. It wasn't a matter of taste as, being a graduate student, I was content to buy whatever coffee was on sale at...
View ArticleBoycott these 5 common products made in Indiana
I was inspired by Molly Weasley's diary of the other day, A few products to boycott from Indiana. After combing through the items on the pages she linked I came up with 5 common items from Indiana that...
View Article"The Police are America's Terrorists" (Deadspin)
This is an article worth sharing widely. It's not so much the sentiment, which is something you can find in any number of DKos journals or on various lefty blogs and news outlets: Witnessing all...
View ArticleFOP Using Paris Attacks to Argue for Off-Duty Cary at NFL Games
The National Fraternal Order of Police has sent a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodall requesting that off-duty cops be permitted to carry firearms at NFL games. The reason? ISIL, of course: The...
View ArticleDems Need to Go Big on Gun Control
The mass shooting in Las Vegas, NV made me, like many of you, take a look at what the Democratic Party had to say about gun control in their 2016 party platform: To build on the success of the...
View ArticleTrump's Military Parade is a "Participation Trophy" for the President.
If you have any conservative friends or family members who are on social media, you probably saw a number of “Participation Trophy” memes after the 2016 election. I’m not going to post any here, but...
View ArticlePre-NRA Dana Loesch's attempts to be relatable on Twitter
I was inspired by Barskin’s post on Paul Guyot’s tales of Dana Loesch’s acting career to share this Deadspin compilation of her attempts to be wacky and relatable on twitter in the late aughts. Sample...
View ArticleFull Text of 1934 Times Summary of Speech Urging Jews to be Civil in...
Like many of you, I was gobsmacked when Seashells posted her diary that linked to Angus Johnson’s twitter thread quoting Quaker Divinity Professor Henry Cadbury’s 1934 speech to a gathering of Rabbis...
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