Quote of the Day: Looking Forward

On November 10, 2016 By chrisbarsantiIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

And to all of the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.

That was Hillary Rodham Clinton, winner of the popular vote to become the 45th President of the United States of America.

Weekday Reading: 2016 Election Day Special Edition

On November 8, 2016November 7, 2016 By chrisbarsantiIn Omnium GatherumLeave a comment

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Feminism and Tim Kaine as the anti-Trump.
Maybe everyone is wrong except for this guy.
What happens when a conservative radio host goes Never Trump.
Apres Trump, the deluge?
A case of actual voter fraud.
Don’t worry, America, the militias are here to keep things nice and weird after the election.
Even The Onion isn’t sure how to handle this one.
Somehow, the GOP leadership is getting even whiter and male-r.
Assad to Putin: What dictators think about the election.
So what about all those Trump voters too shy to tell pollsters what they think?
The “Big Sort” and the growth of “landslide” counties where a supermajority of people vote one way or the other.
If it involves gun-packing thugs intimidating minority voters (it won the GOP an election in 1981), can you really call it a “ballot integrity initiative“?
Even back in 2014, conservatives would prefer to never speak or deal with a liberal, who are generally far more in favor of compromise. That’s what they call “asymmetric polarization” and it hasn’t changed in the last two years.
Maybe the guy just can’t read.
Break in case of emergency: The rogues’ gallery that would be a Trump cabinet.
It’s happened here before; a brief historical guide to election violence in America.
Well, when so many other journalistic norms have been broken, why not the tradition of not reporting on voting results while the election is still happening?
Print and read: At one point during the campaign, even the Russians thought Trump proved himself so unfit that they suspended their anti-Clinton hacking operations. The Russians.

Weekend Reading: October 14, 2016

On October 14, 2016October 14, 2016 By chrisbarsantiIn Omnium GatherumLeave a comment

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There might be a large “Planet 9” at the outer edge of the solar system.
This is how you get murdered in today’s Philippines.
National Museum of the American Indian and other awesome buildings never built.
Modern creepy clown hysteria got started in Brookline, Mass. back in 1981.
Gauntlet thrown by conservative woman: “Some Trojan horse nationalist sexual predator invades the @GOP, eating it alive, and you cowards sit this one out.”
A portrait of a descent into madness.
The women who want to repeal the 19th Amendment.
Oh mutts, De Niro, Trump, and face-punching.
Ken Burns on “the greatest threat to American democracy since the Second World War.“
As goes Missouri…
Evangelical flagship Christianity Today: “[Trump] is, in short, the very embodiment of what the Bible calls a fool.“
The point at which whining can become dangerous for democracy.
George Will: “[Trump] can simplify the GOP’s quadrennial exercise of writing its post-campaign autopsy, which this year can be published Nov. 9 in one sentence: ‘Perhaps it is imprudent to nominate a venomous charlatan.‘”
Unshelved, the library comic!
Here’s a thought: The four-day work week would be one big way to stop climate change. Plus: three-day weekend.
Print and read: “I’m the last thing standing between you and the Apocalypse.“

Chris Barsanti

Tag: Hillary Clinton

Quote of the Day: Looking Forward

Weekday Reading: 2016 Election Day Special Edition

Weekend Reading: October 14, 2016