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- "I will order their arrest. To protect the people, I have to sequester you in jail. Now choose — get vaccinated, or I’ll lock you up in a cell."
- "Either take the eye out, or she may not live"/"Allah is kind to have saved one of my eyes."
- "I think for a lot of marginalized groups who’ve never had their stories told in the mainstream, the atomization has been pretty affirming."
- "It’s terrible. They’re laying on the ground. This is clearly a terrorist act against the LGBT community. This is exactly what it is. Hardly an accident. It was deliberate, it was premeditated."
- "A team of emergency rescue divers was flummoxed after responding to the scene of a nude 'drowning woman' ..."
- "Building a brand starts with creating a culture. Play with rituals, memes, catchphrases, and inside jokes that'll consistently delight both old and new fans."
- "The next morning, I return to Viroqua for a stroll through the town’s vaunted bookstore, Driftless Books, housed in another massive tobacco warehouse."
- "It is disingenuous and dangerous to play on the very real and legitimate fears of bigotry and voter disenfranchisement by pretending it’s present where it’s not."
- I'm surprised to read that this is a first — an NFL player comes out as gay.
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 10:25 AM PDT
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| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 10:23 AM PDT "If you don't want to be vaccinated, I'll have you arrested and have the vaccine shot into your [buttocks]... If you don't get vaccinated, leave the Philippines. Go to India if you want, or somewhere, America." Said Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, quoted in The Washington Post.  |
| "Either take the eye out, or she may not live"/"Allah is kind to have saved one of my eyes." Posted: 22 Jun 2021 10:16 AM PDT |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 10:16 AM PDT "Because what kind of stories were we getting when there just were a few big hits? Too many that were interesting just to straight, white males.... There's just no mechanism for reassembling all these more representative stories into a larger whole." Said Laura Grindstaff, a sociology professor at University of California, Davis, who studies popular culture, quoted in "The TV hit isn't just dying — it's already dead/Astute observers of television say that the idea of a unifying show on even a modest scale is gone. In its wake are a hundred Twitter niches — and a dangerous lack of common culture" (WaPo). What pushed me over the line to blog this is that name — Laura Grindstaff. Wow. It's like a character in "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens. Speaking of shared culture and white men and all that....   |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 08:30 AM PDT Said Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis, an eyewitness to the incident, quoted in "Fort Lauderdale mayor apologizes after calling Pride Parade crash 'terrorist attack'" (NY Post).
The mayor didn't properly apologize, because he didn't say he did something wrong.
He's presenting himself as a victim, terrorized — which sounds like an excuse for not thinking clearly. It's his job to think clearly and to rely on facts.
He didn't just express "strong concerns." He made explicit factual assertions to the public. He said it in a way that admitted no doubt — "This is exactly what it is." He chose to stir up fear and anxiety. And he's not at all apologizing for doing that.
As if he did his job. But he didn't.  |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 07:57 AM PDT "... only to discover that it was actually a floating life-sized sex doll.... [P]hotos show multiple fire and rescue brigades, police, and an ambulance working to dredge the dummy from the water in front of a crowd of onlookers."  |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 07:50 AM PDT YouTube sends me advice. From my email (click to enlarge and clarify):  I brushed it off as stupid, but it also made me think. Are people enjoying the rituals, memes, catchphrases, and inside jokes around here? Do I have enough rituals, memes, catchphrases, and inside jokes? Blogging is its own ritual, but there's also the ritual of the sunrise. As for memes, catchphrases, and inside jokes, there's... what?... men in shorts, the word "garner"...  |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 08:14 AM PDT "The walls are covered floor to ceiling in secondhand books. Framed custom portraits hang from the rafters. A moose head. A rusting sousaphone... 'So yeah, one thing led to another, and a guy gave me this building,' says owner Eddy Nix, a community fixture in Viroqua. He is wearing a loose sweater and patched denim, and he wraps used books in donated paper bags as I pepper him with questions about the store. 'Literally just gave it to you?' I ask. 'He was like some guerrilla philanthropist,' he says. They met when Nix was running the first iteration of his shop in nearby Viola. A stranger walked in one day looking for Richard Brautigan's 'Trout Fishing in America.' Nix sold him a copy, along with a preorder for 'Wake Up,' Jack Kerouac's posthumously published biography of the Buddha. And that was that — until a year later, when Nix grew obsessed with this empty old warehouse in Viroqua and finally contacted the owner, who asked whether the Kerouac book had arrived yet. 'It was the same dude!' he says. 'And then like five months later, after forcing me to read the complete commentaries of Gurdjieff and all this metaphysical hoodoo, he gives me the building, like out of the blue.'" Oh, no! The Washington Post has discovered Wisconsin! I'm reading "In southwestern Wisconsin, the bucolic Driftless Area is an overlooked gem." My favorite comment over there is from Owen Caterwall: But there are so many Americans busting out of the lockdown looking for places in America to explore by car. They are wary of airplanes and they know that too many other people are going to the most well-known places. You open the newspaper and see the "overlooked gem" that's right outside your door. How would you feel? By the way, the "Driftless Area" is a geological term. Here in Madison, we're living in the terrain left by the glaciation of the last Ice Age. That's why we have our lakes. But go just a bit West and you're in the area the glacier did not drift into and flatten. There are — I'm quoting Wikipedia — "steep, forested ridges, deeply carved river valleys, and karst geology characterized by spring-fed waterfalls and cold-water trout streams."  |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 06:30 AM PDT Said New York public advocate, Jumaane Williams, quoted in the new Michelle Goldberg column about the New York mayoral election. The column has a distracting title — "Only the Women Can Save Us Now"— but the real point is that the candidate Eric Adams may be laying the groundwork for arguing that the election was rigged against him, that is, against the black man. Under the new ranked voting system, Adams could win the most first-place votes and still lose the election. He needs a majority of first-place votes to win without counting the second- and third-place votes, and he's likely to win a plurality but not a majority. So the second- and third-place votes will probably determine the outcome, and if they don't lead to his winning, he'll challenge the outcome and — he's already indicated — he'll portray it as a manifestation of structural racism. It's not just that the ranked system is confusing, it's that Andrew Yang started campaigning with Kathryn Garcia and urging his supporters to put her in second place on their ballots. That led Adams to say, "For them to come together like they are doing in the last three days, they're saying we can't trust a person of color to be the mayor of the City of New York." By "person of color," he means black. Yang is a "person of color," Goldberg points out. Anyway, a new IPSOS poll came out today. Adams leads not just in the first-place position, but also in the second- and third-place positions. So it looks as though he'll fail to get the majority, but will still win. He's the law-and-order candidate, by the way.  |
| I'm surprised to read that this is a first — an NFL player comes out as gay. Posted: 22 Jun 2021 04:34 AM PDT "What's up, people? I'm Carl Nassib. I'm at my house here in West Chester, Pennsylvania. I just wanted to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay."
It's momentous. I had to read it in the newspaper to know that it was momentous — and not just another moment — a "quick moment" — as life goes on around us. I'd seen the clip yesterday, but moved on, thinking, okay, fine. Thanks for the info, not that I knew who you were or need to rearrange any of my mental furniture. But this morning I see in WaPo, "Carl Nassib becomes first active NFL player to come out as gay." The article mentions Michael Sam, and the name rings a bell and reminds me why I thought the gay-in-the-NFL issue played out long ago.
So Sam was never an active NFL player. And in June 2014, he withdrew from football for what WaPo calls "mental health reasons." It took 7 more years before another NFL player to come out as gay! But now, at long last, there's Carl Nassib, who just wanted to take a quick moment to say he's gay. Now, let the other gay NFL players take their quick moment and make it obvious that Nassib isn't alone. Thanks to Carl Nassib!  |
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