Saturday, June 22, 2019

Briefly...

When your position on concentration camps is so screwy that you are corrected by the Auschwitz Memorial Museum on Twitter, you might want to sit down and shut the fuck up for a while.

#JustSaying
7-2: SCOTUS Rules “Peace Cross” Can Remain On Public Land

This was an unsurprising 7-2 ruling but nice to see nonetheless!
Reclaiming History From Howard Zinn

Sadly a lot of morons buy this garbage.

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Points to Ponder:

So many letters to the editor and comments on the Internet have this…tone of thrilled vindication: these are people who have been vigilantly on the lookout for something to be offended by, and found it…Obviously, some part of us loves feeling 1) right and 2) wronged. But outrage is like a lot of other things that feel good but, over time, devour us from the inside out. Except it’s even more insidious than most vices because we don’t even consciously acknowledge that it’s a pleasure.

We prefer to think of it as a disagreeable but fundamentally healthy reaction to negative stimuli, like pain or nausea, rather than admit that it’s a shameful kick we eagerly indulge again and again…(It is) outrage porn, selected specifically to pander to our impulse to judge and punish, to get us off on righteous indignation. [Tim Kreider]
Moxley’s indie run now includes (checks notes) beating up nZo and CazXL

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Buttigieg's Money Quest Shadowed by Donor's Saudi Ties

Alfred E. Neumann was not going to be nominated anyway (let alone elected!) but the chutzpah he shows here should be chum for the waters of the upcoming Democratic candidates debate.
CNN Focuses on Trump's Health, But Says Biden's Is Off-Limits