CIA black sites exposed:

https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/957615895899238401

German TV news show admits it amplified the boos during Trump's Davos speech -

https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/957441217205342208

Gosh 'n golly, Amy, maybe balls aren't necessary: There are a lot of people around here who think the richest expression of American character is maximal infantilism.

Remember, Seekers!— Seven Diet Cokes a day, to maintain your health outlook! Glug glug!

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Business Insider:

Apple will release its HomePod smart speaker on February 9, to compete with the Google Home Max and the Amazon Echo.
This leaves only one significant small player in the space, Sonos, which has to take on three tech goliaths who are worth $2.4 trillion collectively.

The models and walk-on girls for the Professional Darts Corporation competitions have been fired. Many feminists and Social Justice Warriors are exclaiming that it’s a victory to have women out of work and cut off the livelihood of female models who make money based on their looks.

https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2018/01/professional-darts-corporation-capitulates-political-correctness-firing-walk-girls/50237/

This is not something that I would insist happen to Newman: It would be coarsely punitive and distasteful.

But if it did/does, I'd probably say she deserves it.

Her thinking is simplistic and intemperate. It'd be nice if the many millions who share her patterns were corrected by an impulsive, nearly impersonal snapback of horse sense.

After all, she works for the government: The British people are *paying* this woman to be small-minded.

It's true: Read the comments to any recent Newman tweet. This may be like Hugh Grant & the prostitute, or Bob Knight & the chair, or Lewinski & the cigar... Newman indeed may never live this down, never walk into a cocktail party without being mocked in the manner of her own behavior.

The #SoYoureSaying hashtag has some video cutdowns which amuse.

This + this = comedy gold.

> This is not something that I would insist happen
> to Newman: It would be coarsely punitive and
> distasteful.

Channel 4 newsreader Cathy Newman says public humiliation is the answer for sexist remarks -

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/channel-4-newsreader-cathy-newman-says-public-humiliation-is-the-answer-for-sexist-remarks-8721200.html

Her thinking is simplistic and intemperate. It'd be nice if the many millions who share her patterns were corrected by an impulsive, nearly impersonal snapback of horse sense. ~ Crid at January 29, 2018 5:12 AM

Her interviewing style was not one of inquiry, but of bias confirmation. She was not asking Peterson to present his opinion, but using his comments as an opportunity to put forth her own.

And it's becoming more common, not less. The US networks do not effectively separate news and opinion, in the past putting their opinion people on what was supposed to be politically-neutral election coverage and it backfired. Remember Chris Matthews' tingle or Candy Crowley's debate assist?

I wouldn't hold my breath awaiting that snapback of horse sense. While we've seen the aforementioned receive some flack for their intemperate remarks and overt display of bias, most of the flack has been from the "other" side, their own side celebrating the penetrating inquisition to which the opposing side was subjected.

The description I gave of "sides" indicates the problem. Fox News and talk radio arose out of a feeling by the right that its views were being given short shrift by the prevailing networks and news organs. In response, the established news organs drifted leftward. So, like the turn of the 20th century, we now have house news organs, yellow journalism, with each side's mouthpieces seeking ever more sensational dirt on the other side as "news."

It would take public rebuke and accusations of inciting a presidential assassination to calm the war of sensationalism between Hearst and Pulitzer. Let's hope this go-round doesn't lead to that.

After all, she works for the government: The British people are *paying* this woman to be small-minded.

And the British should be ever so thankful they're not getting all of the government they're paying for.

> newsreader Cathy Newman says

Yes... And she's wrong.

This is one of my favorite essays of the last ten years.

I often wonder if its conclusions are, y'know, true.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/outintheopen/that-f-word-1.4494880/it-concerns-me-greatly-have-metoo-and-modern-feminism-gone-too-far-1.4494938

> Yes... And she's wrong.

Yes, and now she's learning that the hard way.

Harding has changed her story over and over in the past 24 years, but it’s always that she is a victim and everyone else is horrible. She is habitually “truth-challenged” — this fantasy film is Harding’s dream come true.

http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2018/01/i_nauseated_the_oregonians_for.html

These crayons would be perfect for those adult colouring books:

https://twitter.com/JaclynGlenn/status/957828985487990784

My favorite Harding article.

Consider this.

These crayons would be perfect for those adult colouring books: ~ Sixclaws at January 29, 2018 7:46 AM

Adult? Perhaps not. The tweeter, Jaclyn Glenn, doesn't say "please tell me where i can get some," she says "someone plz get me these." Like a child in the grocery store begging Mom for sugary cereal.

Coast Guardsman imprisoned, busted and dishonorably discharged on what appears to be a provably false accusation. Turns out that commanders, determined to get a politically expedient conviction by any means necessary, tampered with the jury, as well as exerting command influence on the court itself. Six years later, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces finally overturns the conviction and dismisses the charges with prejudice.

«Im Westen nichts Neues» was published 89 years ago today, on January 29th, 1929. (All quiet on the western front)

I tread Mueller's foot.

Damn... Forty five years since I read the thing, and only off by one teentsy word.

You may applaud if you wish.

Haven't laughed so breathlessly for years

Compelling coinage, now twenty years old: Sinceratrons.

Also, for you non-phreaks— Joybubbles was a real guy.

sixclaws-

I, Tonya was pretty good or at least entertaining in a cynical way to me. It borrows technique from Rashomon of having dueling narratives of an incident that are all self serving and clearly coming from unreliable storytellers. It’s their individual versions of the events, and there is no omniscient point of view given so the audience can know the “real truth”. What makes it fun is how every character basically insists the other ones aren’t telling the truth. Makes for perfect gossipy trash movie, and still has a couple of moments of celebrating a real athletic triumph.

But it’s still trashy. I liked it.

Prepare to be culturally enriched!

The more that things change, the more they stay the same.