Morning

Sunday funday.

Saturday Night

Rock on.

Afternoon

Doing some weekending. It is summer, after all.

Lunch

eat

Just Asking Qweschins (Then Running Away)

I'm not aware of everything so of course I could've missed it, but one way for the "JUST ASKING QWESCHINS BECAUSE I AM SO CONCERNED FOR THE CHILDREN" crowd to justify themselves is to make the slightest effort to pretend to think this might not be good and well...

Morning

Go

Friday Night

Rock on.

Happy Hour

Get happy.

The Anti-Trans Alliance

Just the weirdest group of people. Glinner, Meat addict, the Harry Potter Lady, the full reporting staff of the New York Times, various Nazis...

Lunch

Eat

Not Going To Read That

Who knows, maybe it's great, but David Brooks has a column on the "college admissions process" and being somewhat academia-adjacent, one thing I know is that people over about 40 generally have absolutely no idea what the "college admissions process" is unless their kids went through it recently, or even then.

Times change.

And, of course, "Only 15 schools matter, who cares what the pig people are doing" drives all coverage in our glorious periodicals.

OK, Christ, I read it and it's about how killing affirmative action is the first step to undoing the elitism (apparently bad!) about college which, apparently, cultivates "technocratic skills."


My God worse than I imagined.

He does propose that we can improve minority representation by ending "racial preferences and [!!!] preferences for the children of faculty members and alumni" and my brother in Christ how exactly are "we" going to do that last one. No one is stopping them!

"Centrist" brain "compromise." What if we do this other thing no one is going to do? I am very smart. I mean, David, why exactly is "affirmative action" necessary? You almost got there!

Morning

Busy day for me. Might be a bad blogging day! I mean, worse than usual.

Thursday Night

Choose your own.

Happy Hour

Get happy

Afternoon

Busy with some stuff.

Impact Journalism

The New York Times takes a victory lap. Good work everybody.

A campaign against transgender rights has mobilized the Republican Party. How did that happen? Listen to today's episode of The Daily.https://t.co/hotxMVgjlg

— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 1, 2023

Lunch

eat

Segregation Bill

I remember when snotty liberals - some bloggers! - tried to inform the public of Rehnquist's record and views and official DC largely closed ranks. In part, I think, keeping with the general culture of maintaining the myths of the divine priesthood. In part because in the aftermath of Bush v. Gore there was added cultural pressure to "reassure the country" or some shit like that. In part, of course, because, well, lots of people agreed with him!

The Solomon Issue

Since I am old I remember that for years John Solomon was a very respected journalist. Silly bloggers and Media Matters would criticize him only to be dismissed as cranks by his "colleagues" (lefty critics are always dismissed as cranks).

Specifically, Solomon:

From May 1987 to December 2006, Solomon worked at the Associated Press, where he became the assistant bureau chief in Washington, helping to develop some of the organization's first digital products, such as its online elections offering.

In 2007, he served as The Washington Post's national investigative correspondent.

Easiest Marks In The World

Highly Paid PR Guy:  Listen, Elizabeth, this is going to work out much better if the journalist doesn't think this came from me. Do you think we can convince one that somehow they came to the story themselves?

Elizabeth: Oh a friend of mine knows just the one...

I GRABBED IT!!!

Amazing people.