Over at his substack blog, Notes from the Middleground, Damon Linker has a disturbing—though not in the way he imagines—post up, titled Dialectical Contributions to Democratic Breakdown, commenting on varieties of “bad news for democracies” from around the world—including South Korea, Romania, and, unfortunately, the U.S., which is, unsurprisingly enough, the only one I’m going…
Tag: Hunter Biden
Joe Biden, a bitter old man booted from history, makes us all pay for his son’s sins
Thanks, Joe, for saving the worst for last. Uncle Joe’s utter failure to deal with his pathetic son’s abysmal self-promotion and exploitation of his family name was always “unattractive”, but this miserable pardon is infinitely worse, giving anti-anti-Trumpers and pro-Trumpers alike an infinite amount of wind both beneath their wings and in their mouths to…
Is Joe Biden toast?
Okay, Literature R Us has never scooped anyone in its 15 year existence, but this strangely seems to be a “speculation scoop”, to wit: How the hell is Joe Biden going to survive the testimony of “whistleblower” Gary Shapley appearing in today’s Washington Post, testimony that, if unrebutted, should convince just about everyone that Hunter…
Political Notes from All Over
“Anyone but Joe,” anyone? Well, that was fun, wasn’t it? Spending the last few weeks laughing at the Republicans over their self-inflicted imbroglio/embroilment trying to elect a speaker for the House of Representatives was a treat. Well, now it’s our turn to suffer, as Uncle Joe’s Corvette winter plus the upcoming Hunter Biden follies, which…
Democrats behaving badly. Again!
Oh yeah, it’s self-flagellation time around the Literature R Us corral, and my comrades in arms have supplied me with an awesome array of whips, knouts, and other assorted scourges, painful even to look upon, much less touch. But, well, duty calls. Yo, Joe Biden! Shut up! “They’re killing people,” bellowed/whined Uncle Joe back in…
I invented this! Or I predicted it! Or, well, you know.
Okay, I didn’t “predict” this, or anything else. Or invent it. However, a few months back, I wrote a piece, Ben Smith’s latest post for the New York Times is not a column about “misinformation”. It is a column OF “misinformation”, making fun of former NYT media obeserver Ben Smith’s post, Inside the ‘Misinformation’ Wars,…
Ben Smith’s latest post for the New York Times is not a column about “misinformation”. It is a column OF “misinformation”.
NYT Man About the Media Ben Smith has a column up, Inside the ‘Misinformation’ Wars Journalists and academics are developing a new language for truth. The results are not always clearer that goes off on quite a bit of a tangent while discussing the first of a series of meetings organized by Harvard University’s Shorenstein…