Category Archives: Politics
Can we get the facts of life from social media?
Short answer: no. What follows is one entire chapter from my book, How I Learned The Facts of Life, the title of which is duplicated above. (A very short chapter.) There’s a reason why I’m posting it here today. I … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, Komprosplat, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trump Stuff
Tagged 538.com, bots, bots on Twitter, Carnegie Mellon, Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cybersecurity, COVID, Kar Swisher, MIT, MIT Technology Review, New Knowledge, Reddit, Renee DiResta, Russian troll farms, Trump, Twitter
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Facts of Life: the world is going crazy
I perused Harper’s Weekly Report several times, searching for either weird animal news or a central theme. And the only one I’ve come up with is (above post title). (The bolding is mine.) To wit. Or to witless, in our … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trump Stuff
Tagged "super duper missile", Brazil, COVID 19, Department of Homeland Security, Didymoon, Donald Trump, Harper's Weekly Report, Hong Kong, Iran, Jair Bolsonaro, NASA, Netherlands, Pentagon, Siberia, tear-gas-flavored ice cream, Tony Evers, US federal government, US Secret Service, white terrorists
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Trump’s armed boys: malevolence tempered by incompetence. Again and always
Early on, my cousin, Ben Wittes, came up with “malevolence tempered by incompetence,” to describe the Trump administration, and Trump himself. As we view videos and news coverage of overweight masked white men garbed in “uniforms” which apparently have some … Continue reading
Posted in 2020 presidential campaign, Law, suits and order, Politics, Strictly for bitter laughter, The Facts of Life, Trump Stuff
Tagged armed protests, Ben Wittes, Harper's Weekly Review, Mike Pompeo, Special Forces, Subway, Trump, Venezuela
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