Friday, October 11, 2024
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Sounds Bad
[State Department Spokesman Voice] We hope Israel investigates this.
I worked as a trauma surgeon in Gaza from March 25 to April 8. I’ve volunteered in Ukraine and Haiti, and I grew up in Flint, Mich. I’ve seen violence and worked in conflict zones. But of the many things that stood out about working in a hospital in Gaza, one got to me: Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or the chest, virtually all of whom went on to die. Thirteen in total.
At the time, I assumed this had to be the work of a particularly sadistic soldier located nearby. But after returning home, I met an emergency medicine physician who had worked in a different hospital in Gaza two months before me. “I couldn’t believe the number of kids I saw shot in the head,” I told him. To my surprise, he responded: “Yeah, me, too. Every single day.”
Hey I Read One Of Hers
Often when they annonunce the Nobel Prize for Literature for someone who doesn't write in English I haven't even heard of them, but I actually read one this time!
The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to 53-year-old South Korean novelist Han Kang for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. Her works include The Vegetarian, The White Book, Human Acts and Greek Lessons.The Vegetarian was good!
Popularism!
Sam's incarceration couldn't put an effective movement down!
And yet, less than two years later, it is back with a vengeance. Faceless, but more menacing and powerful than ever, with four times the money, crypto is wreaking havoc on the 2024 election cycle. It’s haunting one Ohio senator in particular, threatening to throw majority control of the all-important chamber to Republicans.
This time, there’s no grand political theorizing. No time to waste on utopian futures or societal aspirations. In fact, Coinbase’s billionaire CEO Brian Armstrong, the closest thing to a leader of this political formation, has openly declared that the United States is a society in “decline” and that “backup” options for existing nation states must be pursued. No, the 2024 crypto money machine has been reborn out of a cold, hard determination to do one thing and one thing only: put politicians in power who will stay out of crypto’s way.
One He Shares With The Mastheads Of Our Finest Publications
Elite opinion is essentially that "race science" is correct, that we live in a meritocracy, or close enough, and that those who rise to the top are special little boys and girls. Most aren't Believers, so they aren't chosen by God, but they're certainly intrinsically special, and not just winners of various life lotteries. What else could explain that except that good people beget good people?
And once you land there, it seems perfectly logical that group outcomes are just the aggregate of these individual ones, and that economic differences between identify racial groups merely reflect differences in these in-group inheritable traits.
Then, somehow, you find yourself believing in the secret affirmative action system - a companion to the secret welfare system - and while your sensible race science is about distributions of intrinsic ability and there are SOME good ones, that affirmative action implies any successful minority is likely only there because of that.
Life is truly unfair - black people (especially) get all the advantages! Woke gone mad!
Most respectable people agree racism is bad, and they also paid Andrew Sullivan for decades. How to resolve those things?!?!?!?!?
Wednesday, October 09, 2024
There Must Have Been A Moment
If I were a time traveler and went back to 10/2023 and (convincingly) told people who matter - and people who don't! - what was going to happen with Israel over the next year, would any of them do anything differently? Hard to say.
Trump Takes Harder Line With China
That would've been the NYT headline, probably.
Near the beginning of Donald Trump’s time in office, the then-president had a pressing question for his national-security aides and administration officials: Does China have the secret technology — a weapon, even — to create large, man-made hurricanes and then launch them at the United States? And if so, would this constitute an act of war by a foreign power, and could the U.S. retaliate militarily? Then-President Trump repeatedly asked about this, according to two former senior administration officials and a third person briefed on the matter.Why don't Democrats have their own plan to retaliate against the hurricane gun?
Another Scoop From Baby Bird Barak
A new "norm" in journalism needs to be that it's understood that if you are the designated first recipient of the press release from official sources, then it isn't a scoop.
"Sounds like a great idea, BiBi."
A scoop is getting some information that wouldn't necessarily have been disseminated otherwise, not being the preferred mouthpiece of those in power. That's just PR with someone else paying the salary.
"Sounds like a great idea, BiBi."
I'm so old I remember when people would've treated war with Iran as a big deal, consuming the entire Discourse.
Journalism!
It is quite notable that almost no prominent American journalists have either wanted to or thought it was "allowed" for them to express banal, anodyne support for the basic concept that journalists should be allowed to do their jobs in a war zone without being killed.
I understand it's the kind of thing that even the restrictive New York Times social media policy allows, in theory anyway.
Well we have a soon-to-be-former Fox news guy, at least.
Is anyone interested?
Well we have a soon-to-be-former Fox news guy, at least.
From any perspective you have, it's a major story! Becoming more major!Palestinian journalists must be protected amid the war. pic.twitter.com/y34d0dYpnL
— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) October 8, 2024
Is anyone interested?
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