And this, in Slate:
There are plenty of things I see and don't read. But sometimes my non-reading feels like active resistance, and I need to tell you about it.
Pebrero 22, 2019
Sometimes I feel I must make a note of articles I saw and didn't read.
Just this morning, before 5 a.m., I saw, but did not read, in New York Magazine:
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Your unconscious mind is successfully filtering out the click bait articles. That first one is yawn inducing, the second just seems really weird. I'm tempted to read them just to see if my first impression is correct.
Good call there Prof!
It would have been funny if Smollett's "attackers" had been wearing those masks instead of the ski masks.
Good for you Ann. This is 99% of my news consumption. I'm sure rhh can regale us with the finer points of filters.
So much for bears and otters.
I tried to read the Trump one, I didn’t get far enough to read if Trump was Pinochet or Hitler, but you get the gist. Turns out that Obama can declare an emergency over a dozen times and it’s no threat to the Constitution because he only ever did good things.
Pussy play would have gotten clicks.
Does anyone read New York Magazine?
Back when my family owned a couple of hair salons, magazines like New York used to show up even though we never subscribed to them. They went straight to the trash.
So much bullshit, so little time.
Better spent taking snaps during the Blue hour.
New York magazine allowed Wallace and schmidt's anonymous defamation of the huntress as well as the white washing of the ground zero mosque and covered Weinstein with a pillow so.
From the Slate article:
"And for still others, the best way to spend free time is rolling around on floor mats with each other while wearing puppy masks, collars, and tail-shaped butt plugs, barking and sniffing like real pups."
My eyes! My eyes! Jeezus....
For what it's worth, a very interesting read on Scott Alexander's Slate Star Codex blog today, about the Internet and the decline of reader comment sections. It falls into the "yet another reason why we can't have nice things" category. It's incredibly long, natch.
...for some reason, the direct link to the SSC post doesn't work, but it's the thing on the main page right now (Feb 22, 2019).
Yeah, one of the tags was “Things I will regret writing."
why did it 'take so long' to see Trump's weakness?
That's EASY! it's on account of because of the fact that he was a Democrat for so long
No one saw his weakness until he came out as a non democrat
Thanks for not reading those articles for us, we appreciate it!
Myself, I stopped reading anti-Trump articles like: "trump aides worry he'll be out-foxed by N.Korea" or "Why flattery works in Trump foreign policy" or "Jim Riesch tries to calm Republican furious at Trump".
And anything regarding the Mueller investigation including story no. 1,543 about how "Mueller's got him this time".
Any anti-trump MSM article or story that quotes anonymous sources is worthless.
"Mentorship"?
So that's what the "gay community" calls child abuse?
I’m not an intellectual but I must say, the Internet has made me feel like one. Even something as simple as reading a P. G. Wodehouse short story seems rarified, discerning, and transgressively sophisticated, given what passes for thought on the Internet.
Slate missed an opportunity. The headline could have been:
'Trump's War On Mentorship Has These Pup Play Enthusiasts Howling Mad'
Do better, Slate.
It was a magazine that had Tom Wolfe on the letterhead:
https://www.nysun.com/national/real-scandal-of-trump-term-starts-to-unravel/90585/?fbclid=IwAR26EQGV-Mk9xhY5wKx3J3UdvsaWRFCwFbWFHWCicoZDu7dqV6PoqofZHFA#.XHAPWrrzVxk.facebook
Does that go on in the bowels of Woofs?
You know, liberals called Reagan dumb and they called George W. Bush dumb but there's something different with Trump. There's a palpable desperation in the attacks on Trump's smarts and even sanity.
Mike
It recalls when I read much of mccarrys work, soecially better Angel's, there you might call it Mallory derangement syndrome.
The Left wanted to do pup play with Hillary as the Big Dog.
Mccarry was an Irish ex army officer in the 50s and 60s overwhelmingly wasp company, the hero of his early work is an decidedly urbane brahmin, but he suffers the fate of John Delaney the fellow imprisoned in China, only for a decade.
He even dwells into conspiracy theory coming up with another motive behind the Kennedy assassination, that's why he ends up in Vietnam
That's a broad hint, in his later work he elaborates on the anti intelligence sentiment in the media, like last supper.
A recent work like the voluminous big bang that I referred to before, has some of the neurotic sensibility of delillo and pynchon
But sans understanding Howard hunt was a character a little like Christopher, although he had less pedigree ironically he hired bill Buckley who in turn worked with the Latin version of Whitaker chambers eudocio ravines
Buckley was also a character a little like Sherman McCoy, an fellow with old manet elan but new money roots, his father was a Texas wildcatter, in the vein of the protagonist of American son.
Can you imagine anything for trite and barique:
http://coreyrobin.com/articles/
"why did it 'take so long' to see Trump's weakness?"
I think I got about as far into the Trump article as Tim did. Honest to god, here's what I've come away with:
Trump's main weakness is that he isn't the competent authoritarian that all the smart lefty political junkies said he was. And as Tim said, Trump is super evil and anti-Constitution because he declared an emergency.
Maybe toward the end, which I won't read, they make the point that the emergency declaration and its inherent violation of the Constitution subjects Trump to impeachment.
@paco -- That's a very interesting article.
Oddly enough, I had just read a couple of the AI articles on the same blog earlier this morning.
"short term-ism of the news cycle and the longue durée-ism of the academy."
Longue-dureeism? At least they didn't add an "e" at the end. What's the French phrase for pretentious fuck?
Longue-duréeism is de trop. But a lot of Canadian writers pepper their prose with French expressions. Even Mark Steyn does it.
Interesting bowman doesn't dwell much of David attlee Phillip's another character almost out of delillo, who I have a tangential connection but I didnt know it at the time.
Mentorship? You mean like NAMBLA?
Just when you thought that the once great Slate was perfectly content to be a bad imitation of Salon they decide they would rather be a bad imitation of Vice.
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