Tuesday, March 17, 2015
It's not that I don't care about the Hillary e-mail scandal, it's that I don't care
Conservative commentators are sure riled up about this one and it doesn't even involve Sex. I have the barest skeleton knowledge of the scandal and that's because, well the title says it. For me it's like a scandal totally revolving around some technical violation like a worker not washing his hands after he comes out of the stall. Now there are still people who won't vote for Hillary Clinton because they feel the Clintons had Vince Foster murdered but at least this is more interesting subject matter. Look I watch quite a few of them true-crime shows like Snapped on the Escape channel and cops today are pretty sophisticated in these matters. A few of them are quite good at sniffing out the vaguest, the most subtle wisp of a major crime what with advanced forensics and all and believe me if there was really something there we'd hear about it. A couple conservative commentators are focused on Russell Brand's porn addiction and his new anti-porn stance (now there's an old subject I thought was kinda settled) but conservative commentary in general has been well-dispersed in its topics over the years. Instead of focusing on the things that really matter you'll get one that really goes off on a tangent, say Maggie Gallagher who starts ruminating about all things marriage and why this demographic group that never married is gonna be more unhappy and...it's just gets tiresome and all like this is gonna defeat ISIS. OK so about the scandal tell me why I should care.
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I see the Netanyahu election is going down to the wire. My cynical guess? If he
ReplyDeleteloses the popular vote, he will have the US SCOTUS step in and declare him the winner. Elsewhere in the sphere, the blogs have been aflame with the letter signed by 47 GOP senators and sent to Iran, Someone even called new senator Cotton,
who wrote it, 'Cottonmouth'. The fall out is 53% of Republicans support the letter,
26% of Independents and 11% of Dems. Those who thought it was stupid were
71% Dem, 37% Independent and 10% GOP. From which we note the usual party
loyalty and the usual TP wing pissing off the Independent vote. Then the March
Madness thing, which used a lot of my time picking the perfect bracket. So Hillary
and her computer? Dunno, probably Snowden and NSA do. I guess if she was having a hot affair with Kanye West or organizing a coven of witches.....
I don't get the GOP letter. Couldn't they have sent out a tweet like everybody else or simply unfriended Iran?
DeleteI'm currently into some old Classics Illustrated comic books. It's all part of my reliving my youth project. You think I give a moose's snarkey about reading Hillary's e-mails?
DeleteClassics Illustrated? Did you get the whole collection ? Some of them were better than
Deletethe original books.
Just a few esp. Jules Verne. Can somebody explain why some sites charge something so you can download "Beowulf"? I mean if that isn't in the public domain yet!
DeleteYeah, I think Arnulf The Scribe's copyright ran out when the Angels met
Deletethe Saxons. As for the charges, my guess is that it pays for the work of
turning rawhide pages into electronic script. On the other hand, the
Edda
of Snorri Sturlson is free, if you like Skaldic poetry. (My Dad read that
thing back in the day)
You know it's funny the pharmaceutical industry puts alot of time and effort into developing the latest sleep aids but in the great battle between A Drink and Advil PM the drink wins rather handily time and again.
ReplyDeleteThinking of Beowulf, all the previous writing systems were done on durable material.
ReplyDeleteFertile crescent and Egypt on stone/papyrus, as well as Greece and Rome; velum
in the middle ages and then processed paper until recently. So generations or even millennia, we can look back and study those civilizations. Now, we write electronically on thin air (cloud), heck sometimes I lose stuff before I'm even finished.
I see the day in the distant future when our 'era' is represented by an archeological
dig that discovers a cement coated body they name homo jimmyhoffapithecus. Sad.
In school when they forced you to read Beowulf you were distressed, now you can read it in the evening with your small tumbler of Christian Brothers and it's thoroughly enjoyable.
DeleteSo has Obama picked up the phone and congratulated Bibi yet?
ReplyDeleteIdaho has an odd case for Judge Judy.
ReplyDeleteShe's the type who would go after a cat for killing a mouse. What's up with all those snow geese in Idaho falling dead out of the sky?
DeleteTed Cruz has thrown his hat in the ring. Was it a beanie with propeller?
ReplyDeleteThe usual GOP infighting around this time. Peter King has called Cruz a carnival barker and a bigmouth like he's not a bigmouth himself.
DeleteAnother mysterious plane crash. At least it didn't disappear over the Indian Ocean.
ReplyDeleteA remote part of the French Alps, pretty headline-grabbing.
DeleteCruz signed up for Obamacare ?
ReplyDeleteApparently didn't have much choice in the matter.
DeleteThe Saudis want to invade Yemen? What's a Houthi?
ReplyDeleteI have close to ten major running news apps on my tablet and all I can say is it's a challenge. Founder of Singapore died.
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