Excellent Atlantic Summary of the Child Punching Frenzy

I don’t agree with every word (for example, the comment about Blackout days) but this is an outstanding summary from The Atlantic.

Here is my summary. In the Jim Crow South, a black man on a sidewalk was expected to step aside when a white man approached. A black man who did not would be punished. To the media, and much of America, Sandman's offense was to not step aside.

Overdue Nyman

Haven’t had Nyman in a while. One of the Lust Songs.

The picture [Twitter] reveals is ugly, vulgar, shrill, and intolerant, with souls exhibiting an incapacity to deliberate, weigh evidence, and judge judiciously. 

More.  This is exactly the point. More important than the bile and the resentment the “punch a child” frenzy reveals is the the thoughtlessness. No-one who jumped on this applied any independent thought, or felt the need for more evidence. Stimulus, response. We are seeing Richard Hofstadter's “paranoid style” and “100% mentality” combine, and take over a large fraction of the culture.

The Woman Who Invented Duct Tape

Here.

More Child Punching

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Punching Children

Reza Aslan.

This looks like fake news from the start, more red meat unverified bullshit from CNN, but even if it were true, punching kids is not a good look.

A roundup of relevant stuff. It was bullshit indeed.

I used to live in Ft Thomas, which abuts Covington. Both are really suburbs of Cincinnati.

UPDATE: Hate addled

Deep Throat Plumbed

A fascinating look at Mark Felt from a few years ago. Here.

Impeach!

im·peach
/imˈpēCH
verb
call into question the integrity or validity of [BuzzFeed News, CNN, MSNBC,...].

Commenter meade over at Althouse about the latest no-evidence shit show .

Luther said that the very least parishioners should be able to ask of their church is that it not steal from them. What's the least we should we expect from professional journalists?

Putting the boot in

It could be very fresh and clean

Glass, Knee play 5 from Einstein on the Beach.

And, very different, some Einaudi for harp.

A Prediction

An attempt will be made to punish or fire Professor Dunn.

NBC goes full NBC

A man with a gun breaks into your home. How would you describe him? Armed robber? Home invader?

Here is how NBC does it.

A pertinent riposte.

Dog Park

Wokeness and magical thinking

A very interesting observation.

Constable Ken B

There is a Reader's Challenge for GAD readers. I will sign up for the easiest, laziest one: Gold Constable.

Update: Completed

1/1024 part working class

”I'm gonna get me a beer.”
Here.

The Great Stupiding Continues

Vaginal steaming. Buy your herbs here.