Of many conservatives who write on the editorial side of the NY Times, the tenure of Bari Weiss was uneven with mainly meta-commentary, but apparently she will have a gig elsewhere in combination with some other writers like Andrew Sullivan. x .@bariweiss is leaving the NYT, @laurawags reports. https://t.co/mewLM6tbhQ— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) July 14, 2020…
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Silly Season: Room Rater creates aesthetic scale for Skype/Zoom backgrounds
Room Rater is now being used as a throwaway line for happy-talk television, so this Twitter site that rates the backgrounds we use for our Skype/Zoom conversations now draws our attention. The reality is that most backgrounds are just that, even as their detail is a measure of the quality of the discourse. The pair of…
Notes from the Silly Season: COVID and Trump's weird gait
Trump's plague ship of state runs aground on the sand bar of the DNC platform committee because intra-party division may yet disrupt party solidarity. A month out from the Democratic National Convention, the party continues to be pulled in opposing directions by its progressive and corporate wings. While presumptive nominee Joe Biden and the party establishment…
There Appears To Be One Constant From Across The Decades In This Campaign Season…
And it is my batting average when it comes to picking Democratic presidential candidates. And it’s bad. Otherwise, 2020 is a sea of poltiical confusion, or so you would think if you are a political junkie. For starters, I don’t think I have picked an eventual nominee since I first got to vote in Democratic…
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – Season Four of Rick & Morty… finally
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that many who post in this…
Iceberg calving from Greenlandic glaciers surges as 2019 surface melt season may be record-breaking.
“When you look at several decades, it is best to sit back in your chair before looking at the results, because it is a bit scary to see how fast it is changing,” French glaciologist Eric Rignot, of the University of California at Irvine Abrupt! Climate! Emergency! I was perusing my climate news feeds this morning…
FEMA fesses up they are 'short a few thousand employees' as Atlantic Hurricane Season begins.
“What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening,” Donald J. Trump The country is currently facing unprecedented rainfall, flooding, and tornadoes in the mid-west and Southeastern states while fire season has erupted in the Western states. Alarmingly, the ever-increasing power and horror of hurricane season beginc for the Caribbean, the Eastern seaboard…
Dear FSM. I'm Sick Of This Primary Season
With some supporters putting me off any candidate. The final straw is the DNC data fiasco, nobody appears to have done anything illegal such as hacking, the data storage was insecure. The mistake was not dealing with it in house, but oh no, it was much more fun to throw another spanner in the works….
