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Illuminating Journalism? Well, “journalism” it ain't but every time I hear Trump open his mouth to spew yet more ad hominem bile I marvel that any cogent person can see anything but an individual who is totally unfit for any position in the public trust, never mind one of import. All he's done (all he is capable of doing) is to scratch of the scabs of the aggrieved (some reasonably, most not) while advancing nihilistic “solutions” to them, and poured gasoline on the fires of those who are willing to burn the house down over wedge issues. We have a seriously, destructively mentally ill president and a whole bunch of GOP enablers; and about a third of the population that appears permanently clueless.
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every time I see a photo of him where he is looking into the camera, I am reminded of this quotation from A Moveable Feast:
Some people show evil as a great race horse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. Lewis did not show evil; he just looked nasty.
Walking home I tried to think what he reminded me of and there were various things. They were all medical except toe-jam and that was a slang word. I tried to break his face down and describe it but I could only get the eyes. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
Hemingway did work as a journalist for a bit, so I am not OT.
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Is "Trump Derangement Syndrome" a Real Mental Condition? | Psychology Today
Interesting insightful article for this Saturday on VS, from Psychology Today.
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I think it's a feature of team loyalty, aka tribalism. I see Team Blue hating Trump for doing what they applauded Obama for doing, and Team Red loving Trump for doing what they said was treasonous when Obama did it. The principle of the action in question is no longer important to a growing percentage of humanity.
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I think it's a feature of team loyalty, aka tribalism. I see Team Blue hating Trump for doing what they applauded Obama for doing, and Team Red loving Trump for doing what they said was treasonous when Obama did it. The principle of the action in question is no longer important to a growing percentage of humanity.
Bingo. Pick a color and turn off your brain.
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While not really journalism per se, if you have never read this, do.
The Places in Between - Wikipedia
I can only hope that he becomes the next PM.
A Latter-Day Lawrence of Arabia Shakes Up Britain’s Tories - The New York Times
The comparison with Lawrence is inapt. More akin to Churchill and Richard Burton.
As for Obama v Trump, the former was not the change I had hoped for. The latter is no surprise at all.
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Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS, now there is a name to conjure with.
Read this, quite amazing. journalism, ethnography and a ripping good yarn.
"Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah Vol 1 & 2"
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It's well past time to see the after-effects of these mass shootings. But we've also had a spree shooting on live TV with no impact on policy in this country.
The Startling Image of a Blood-Spattered Victim of the Virginia Beach Shooting | The New Yorker
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That's about two miles from where I spent the better part of nine years up to 2016, living part-time and full-time. I've been in that building and driven past that site dozens, if not hundreds, of times. I wondered when I heard about this whether or not I ever met any of the victims during my time there. Very sad and all too common these days.
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This is an excellent profile, and so relevant to an ongoing conversation between me & my wife about art and influence: Rhiannon Giddens and What Folk Music Means | The New Yorker
...many different folk-music traditions tend to contain a particular kind of melody or set of notes, "neutral intervals," between major and minor. In America, we call them "blue notes" - flatted thirds and sevenths and fifths. They can suggest moaning and dissonance. The cord that binds the various global sub-styles of folk in which these notes occur is what the ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax termed the "Old High Culture" of Eurasia, which stretched back to Mesopotamia. Strangely, perhaps, given that we are talking about twentieth-century popular music, it was often Islamic song traditions that acted as the conveyor for these deep strains in world music. Van der Merwe shows how the "gliding chromaticism" characteristic of the blues spread via Islamic influence into West Africa (in particular the Senegambia region) and, via Spain, into Ireland and the "Celtic fringe." From those places, these styles and sounds rode farther west, to North America, on slave ships and immigrant ships. In the American South, the Celtic and the African musical traditions met. It was an odd family reunion. Each culture had its own songs, but the idioms understood one another. The result was American music.
Plus Rhiannon Giddens is pretty damn talented.
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that is an excellent site, Eric
thanks for the link
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I think it is great when animals attack large metropolitan areas. This one seems to have failed to reach their intended target (San Diego is still there as far as I know) and only got to Wrightwood CA, but they'll retool and return when the time is right.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weath...=.cef2ed47b19b
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A really great personal history from the New Yorker about Yugoslavia:
My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia | The New Yorker
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Yugoslavia was a discursive universe, if you will, wherein the largest object was its freshly minted socialist middle class. In that universe, everything made sense to Mama because she was an indelible part of it, because it grew around an idea she worked hard to make real. She was a citizen of the country that she built with her very hands, her Yugoslav identity a consequence of her life decisions, an outcome of her human, historical agency. Building the “homeland” was a practice, a daily operation, not a nostalgic one. She did not define homeland by the hundreds of years of unalterable history but by the efforts and dreams of people just like her, people whose siblings were wounded in the liberation war, who left home at the age of eleven to go to school, who earned blisters at youth work actions, who in college shared their room and food with four friends from exactly the same background, and who were the first ones in their family since the beginning of time to earn a university diploma and buy a television set on which they could watch themselves. Eventually, they’d be told by their own children (that is, me) that all of their efforts were in vain because they had been fucking it up from the very beginning.
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We have met the enemy and she is us.
Walt Kelly
Mike
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deeply sad
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