Via Atrios, here’s the same whiny horseshit we’ve been hearing for years and years and years: These days, however, news articles — be they about war, voting rights, the arts or immigration policy — increasingly inhabit social media feeds like thefrighteningly dominant one that Facebook runs. They are competing for attention against zany kitchen experiments; your friend’s daughter’s bat mitzvah; and that wild video of a train whipping through a ridiculously narrow alleyway in India. After watching the fruiticide, I noticed a Twitter post by the freelance journalist Erik Malinowski that read, “the watermelon … is us,” and sighed. Seemed about … Continue reading 2003 Called and It Wants Its Journalism Arguments Back
Posted on 4/14/2016 1:16:18 PM by C19fan
Via BuzzFeed, I’m going to be bold and pronounce this the single Trumpiest thing he’s said since the campaign began. Really! Trumpier than him goofing on McCain for being taken prisoner in Vietnam, Trumpier than him goofing on his fans by claiming they’d stick with him even if he shot someone in broad daylight. I’m a lapsed Catholic turned nonbeliever so I’ll let the faithful among our readers correct me, but isn’t this … one of the worst possible answers that a Christian could give to this question?
An “eye for an eye” does appear in the Bible, true, but it’s Old Testament; it was specifically repudiated by Jesus himself in the gospel of Matthew in favor of “turn the other cheek,” as John McCormack notes. The whole point of Christianity, I thought, is to resist vengeance and embrace forgiveness, and it’s captured nowhere more succinctly than in the rejection of “an eye for an eye.”
So here’s Trump, who’s been half-heartedly pandering to evangelicals since last summer, deciding that the lesson from the Bible that sticks with him is the one about, um, revanchism, which Jesus instructed his disciplines to ignore. It’s like naming Baal your favorite member of the holy trinity.
1 posted on 4/14/2016 1:16:18 PM by C19fan
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Let’s see :
Freeper (more often than not) = evangelistic Christian. The “holier than thou” wars at Freeperville have been going on since I started observing them, and show no signs of letting up.
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Freeper (overwhelming majority) = Trump-humper.
Are these two trains on a collision course in this thread?
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To: C19fan
Is that in Four Corinthians or Two Exodus?
2 posted on 4/14/2016 1:18:49 PM by nickcarraway
“mkjessup” (whose namesake went to military prison for the rest of his natural life, if I recall correctly) is here to quote from the Gospel Of Charlie Daniels :
To: C19fan
From the book of Daniels, CHARLIE Daniels …
“Well, you know what’s wrong with the world today People done gone and put their Bibles away They’re living by the law of the jungle not the law of the land The Good Book says it so I know it’s the truth An eye for and eye and a tooth for a tooth You better watch where you go and remember where you been That’s the way I see it I’m a Simple Man.”
WORKS FOR ME.
3 posted on 4/14/2016 1:19:22 PM by mkjessup (The GOPe IS the “Enemy Within” !!)
“Simple” doesn’t even begin to cover it. “Drooling Moron” comes closer.
To: nickcarraway
Is that in Four Corinthians or Two Exodus?
It’s from St. Donald’s letter to the Coloradans.
4 posted on 4/14/2016 1:20:22 PM by DoodleDawg
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To: dragnet2
Mock Cruz and his faith all you want, but Trump’s favorite verse of what to do is where Jesus is telling us not to do. Obviously, Trump has no understanding of the context.
33 posted on 4/14/2016 1:46:13 PM by 5thGenTexan
To: C19fan
That is at least from scripture, and not some bogus prophecy from a cult.
11 posted on 4/14/2016 1:22:55 PM byPsalm 144(What are mere facts to a Dominionist Constitutionalist, small government-globalist tool?)
Uh oh. Here we go!
To: 5thGenTexan
Mock Cruz and his faith all you want,
At least Trump refers to the bible rather than pushing some Seven Mountains Dominionist garbage that Terd Snuz believes in.
49 posted on 4/14/2016 2:07:16 PM by The Iceman Cometh (Ted Cruz polls great with young females, or is it he likes young females on a pole….I get confused)
Jesus shit, dude. Rick Ross was in the Oval Office. Rick Ross was in the Oval Office. Rick Ross was in the Oval Office. Rick Ross was in the Oval Office. Rick Ross was in the Oval Office. This comment is how I dearly how it all got started: Barack: “Michelle, we have a few months left. What else can we do to both inspire black youth and infuriate racist white folks?” Michelle: “I think I have an idea” Barack: “Go on…” A. Continue reading His Name is Zero Fucks Obama and He IS the President
Kasich is the most anti-choice governor, which is like being the worst porta potty at The Gathering of the Juggalos. https://t.co/KR3fKIRktv — LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) April 15, 2016 You know what every political “strategist” and pundit and reporter-who-should-know-better currently humping John Kasich’s leg is saying by calling him the Last Sane Republican? They’re saying fuck you, women, you don’t matter. Because the only way Kasich looks “sane” is if you ignore all of this: Since Kasich entered office in 2011, he has enacted 16 anti-abortion measures.Some directly restrict abortion access, such as the 20-week late-term ban that he signed six months … Continue reading Calling Kasich Sane is an Insult to Women
The hills are alive with the sound of demagoguery in 2016. Rabble rousing populism is as old as the republic as are demagogues who take equally from the far left and far right. 1930’s radio priest Father Charles Coughlin was such a man. He was for FDR before he was against him. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Radio Priest
Name a terrible movie you watch over and over. Like you know it’s awful and yet … watching. I really have too many to list, but probably the worst is Something to Talk About. It is godawful. But almost every time I find it on TV I wind up watching the whole thing. A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread
It’s been a grim week in New Orleans. Much loved former LSU and Saints running back and Saints color man Hokie Gajan died of cancer at the age of 56. As a broadcaster, Hokie was folksier than all get out. His catch phrase was an odd one: I tell you what. Hokie deployed it at the drop of a hat. He’ll be missed, I tell you what,
In New Orleans crime news, former Saints defensive captain Will Smith was shot and killed. Initially, it looked like a classic road rage shooting but things keep getting curiouser and curiouser. It looks as if it’s a complicated road rage shooting complete with odd coincidences and heavily armed participants. It’s not a stone whodunit but it’s not as open and shut as it looked at first blush.
A word about this week’s featured image. It’s a 1930 veg-photo taken by the great Edward Weston, Kale Halved. It reminds me of the great New Orleans kale kerfuffle of 2014:
In faux defense of the honor of my adopted hometown (I’m a transplant but I didn’t expect anyone to applaud me for moving here) I will start calling it KALEVILLE. No, not K-Ville like the crappy short-lived Fox cop show but KALEVILLE. Hmm, maybe that show would have made it if they’d had kale parties instead of gumbo parties because it’s more on trend according to Gwyneth and GOOP.
I never called the city Kaleville again and the veggie dustup is largely forgotten. I only revived it because of my insane love of self-quotation.
Speaking of dudes named Edward Weston who may or may not have halved kale:
Professional pedestrian Edward Weston in his walking suit several years after his demonstration in New Orleans. pic.twitter.com/XLTUCKEw2l
This week’s theme song *does* involve walking. It was written by the great songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Dionne Warwick got the first crack at Walk On By and had a monster hit:
In 1969, Issac Hayes recorded his own idiosyncratic take on the tune. In many ways Issac was the proto-Barry White, bay-bay. This is the single version, there’s actually a 12 minute album track for those who love theirsoul hot buttered:
Here’s a punky version by the Stranglers:
It’s story time. I was an indifferent piano student as a kid. We had a baby grand in the living room so naturally I had to have lessons. My piano teacher was a nice neighbor lady who assigned me the Bacharach-David songbook because we both liked their tunes. It made my playing a bit better but I was always like the guy in All The Way From Memphis:
Well I got to Oreole y’know – it took a month
And there was my guitar, electric junk
Some spade said rock’n’rollers, you’re all the same
Man that’s your instrument. I felt so ashamed
I’ll let Mott the Hoople play us into the break. It’s a mighty long way down rock and roll:
It’s usually a bad idea to put a date in the title of a volume of dystopian science fiction. Doomsday, 1999 didn’t happen or if it did, it was upstaged by the Y2K freak out, which also didn’t happen. This post poses … Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Doomsday, 1999
We’re avid DVRers and rarely watch anything, other than sports or the news, live on the electric teevee machine. We made an exception the last two nights to watch Ken Burns’ new film about Jackie Robinson on PBS. It’s an … Continue reading Jackie & Rachel
I originally planned to post this album as a Saturday Odds & Sods closer. The cover, however, is too OTT not to make the ACAW cut. Holy acronym soup, Batman. The Atomic Mr. Basie was released in 1958 and was … Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: The Atomic Mr. Basie
Via Lex, this dumbass: “As a lawyer, I have stood with the defenseless because our Constitution says — actually demands — that all Americans have basic rights and, by protecting those rights, we can all truly share in the blessings of being an American,” Richardson writes. “Since our hasty vote on HB2, I have been haunted by the fact that in one rushed action, I undermined a lifetime of fighting against those who would demonize a group of citizens to gain political advantage and to advance an unjust agenda.” Aww, poor you, sugar pea! If only there had been a … Continue reading If Only There Was a Way to Prevent Being a Bigoted Asshole
In a review titled, no kidding, “John Colapinto Revives the Male-Centric Literary Sex Novel,” we get this gem of a passage: There was a time when the great American male novelists took delight in writing about sex. Rebelling against a literary tradition that perhaps underestimated how much space animal urges take up in the male brain, many big hitters of the 20th century, like Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Miller, Philip Roth, John Updike and Saul Bellow, dived into the muck with the zeal of Rabelais or Cleland. Sex was freedom, sex was adventure, sex was a good time, sex … Continue reading NYT: Pedophilia & One-Night Romps are Equally Sexy Hijinks!
Good Monday morning, everyone! Let’s head into the iso chamber, fire up the extraction tools, and crack open some random drums of Freeper stupid.
First up – stick a fork in her!
Ted Cruz hailed, Sarah Palin flops at Wisc. GOP event UPI ^ | 4/3 | Eric Duvall
Posted on 4/4/2016 10:36:13 AM by TangledUpInBlue
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz was greeted with a standing ovation at a Milwaukee County GOP event Saturday and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was standing in for front-runner Donald Trump, was met with steely silence three days ahead of the state’s crucial primary vote.
The Milwaukee County Republican Party Fish Fry proved fertile campaign ground for Cruz, who has become the vehicle for many establishment figures in their quest to deny Trump the party’s nomination. Cruz used the event to make his first appearance with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, whose endorsement he earned earlier this week.
1 posted on 4/4/2016 10:36:13 AM by TangledUpInBlue
Freeper dp062 (sounds like a serial number, doesn’t it?) isn’t buying it :
To: TangledUpInBlue
Hard to believe Palin was met with silence anywhere.
Very few are indifferent to the beautiful lady from Alaska
3 posted on 4/4/2016 10:39:17 AM by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
Very few are also indifferent to a hissing opossum, but let’s not get animal control involved.
Or rabies shots…
Tangled up in blue (?!?!?) begs to differ :
To: dp0622
I think Sarah’s time is done. All she has left is her beauty and that squealing voice
5 posted on 4/4/2016 10:41:16 AM by TangledUpInBlue
…which means that all she really has left is that squealing voice.
To: dp0622
There are videos around of her speech. It was, to be kind … terrible.
Not sure what is up with her. haven’t seen her in awhile but this sure wasn’t the Sarah we came to know back in 2008.
8 posted on 4/4/2016 10:43:46 AM by RIghtwardHo
Oh come on – doesn’t anyone but Doctor Pepper 0622 have anything positive to say about Our Sarah’s speech?
To: dp0622
At the end Sarah got a STANDING OVATION.
19 posted on 4/4/2016 10:49:20 AM by newfreep
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To: Revelation 911
She and Levin share that screechy voice problem. It turns me off, maybe irrationally, but I can’t stand to listen to them when they get wound up and tune them out.
Both could use a voice coach. There is no sound reason why they couldn’t overcome that. I worked on a radio station once and knew a guy whose normal voice hit that screechy register—but when he went on air, he’d trained himself to speak in a very mellow baritone.
31 posted on 4/4/2016 10:59:14 AM by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one…. what’s your plan?)
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Can we hear from the “family values” contingent, please?
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Sarah Palin is irrelevant unless, of course, one wants to learn how to raise their daughters to be sluts.
Because on the one hand, RIGHTEOUS: And on the other, hopelessly naive: Republicans ought to focus on doing the right thing: putting up every legitimate roadblock to Trump that they can. Unexpectedly, a key moment in American democracy has snuck up on the GOP. When he denounced Trump, Romney said he wanted to be able to say he’d fought the good fight against a demagogue. That’s the test other Republicans may want to consider. Action doesn’t mean political chicanery or subterfuge. It doesn’t mean settling for an equally extreme — and perhaps more dangerous — nominee in Ted Cruz. If … Continue reading The Boston Globe is Infuriating or, Are Republicans Necessary?
Doc asked me once, when I was in the middle of covering the priest sex abuse scandal, how I could tell if a victim’s story was real. There was all this pushback at the time, because the story spread out from Boston all over the country and the church was running scared, about victims making things up and the damage done by false accusations. The institutional church needed doubt to keep itself alive, and doubt was easier for many of its followers than understanding they’d been lied to and cheated for years. I told him, “Leave aside the ones who … Continue reading No Sympathy for the Devil
I’m feeling uncharacteristically terse this week. Stop cheering, y’all. I can always indulge in some windbaggery another week.
There’s some news on the NOLA white supremacy monuments front. A bill giving the state the right to intervene died in committee at the lege. Remember when Republicans stood for local government? In 2016, they only believe in local governance when it’s one of *their* pet issues. So it goes.
This week’s theme song comes from Nick Lowe’s 1990 album Party of One and has become a staple at his live shows. I selected What’s Shakin’ On The Hill after picking the Paul Klee painting as the featured image. Klee was a Swiss artist best known for his small paintings as opposed to an expansive mountain scene. It made me ask myself, What’s Shakin’ On Klee’s Hill? Beats the hell outta me…
I’ve picked three versions of the theme song. The first is Nick’s original. Followed by two versions by Nick Lowe related artists. First, Paul Carrack was in Nick’s band for several years in the 1980’s. Second, Lowe produced a flock of Elvis Costello albums hence the EC version. Enough exposition, on with the music:
As you may have noticed I am fond of saying so it goes. I picked that up years ago from Kurt Vonnegut. It just occurred to me that it’s the title of a Nick Lowe tune as well:
People often talk about the “dignity” of public service and officials who should act in a “dignified” manner. It’s one of the main reasons why Donald Trump is being seen as such an outsider these days: He’s one of the few people who refuses to give in to the public decency we expect from those who govern us. Perhaps Rick Scott is looking for a chance to Out-Trump “The Donald” for a chance at a VP slot or something, because there’s no other way his actions this week make sense. Scott, Florida’s least-favorite governor, was in a Starbucks when a … Continue reading Hey Rick Scott! Why don’t you just call her a “twat” and get it over with?
