I was going to say undying enmity, but I think Puppy has it covered.
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We had to have crossed paths. I started there in late-76 as an older undergrad; graduated in '79. I think by then tuition had risen to $1,800.
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Feeling a bit hawkish today?
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It’s impossible to debunk each and every falsehood, half truth, and conspiracy ginned up by MAGA world — and that’s largely the point of their exercise.
“Flooding the zone with [shite]”, as Steve Bannon put it. But really! Republicans have been using this technique since at least the 1990s! Every op-ed, every utterance must contain so many lies, so many half truths, so many obscure references to wingnut conspiracy theories, that debunking a single column would take a couple full pages of newsprint. Even the attempt would be partial, leaving the rest of the screed standing – apparently.
Debunking is good, but insufficient. I’d like to suggest better screening, actual editing to make sure this stuff isn’t printed, broadcast, etc. But it will be a major job to get editors to turn on their advertisers. It’s an “all hands on deck” kind of project, at the least.
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Martha Ann is a little old for a dirndl, isn’t she?
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I think he’s going to need a bigger boat.
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Not all cartoons are “Suitable for framing” - this one certainly is!
Ranks up there with some from Walt Kelly - Pogo
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MSM: why this is bad news for Biden…
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Do we want to bet on the many times that Donnie violates the gag order and will be fined, will be more than the fine violating the Campaign Finance Law?
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Nah, but I wouldn’t lose any sleep over Texas and Florida getting nuked.
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But you will notice in an attempt to win over Opus Dei, Pope Francis has been issuing more homophobic slurs lately.
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Some day I will read trump had a coronary event that takes him off the campaign and out of politics
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Perhaps I should have said older people that have not been paying attention to changes in tuition and how student loans work today … Once I start explaining their jaw drops in disbelief.
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Institutionally, it remains incredibly difficult for news outlets to conclude that these are bad faith efforts and adjust their coverage accordingly.
I’ve avoided mentioning this since the get-go, but my first college roommate and best man at my wedding was an editor at the NYT, and just happened to be there on 9-11. For that, he was given a Pulitzer (actually, it was the entire staff of the NYT, and NOT him in particular). He left the Times a few years after that tragedy, and ended up teaching journalism at a major university. I’ve only spoken to him once in the past couple of decades, part of the reason being that i let go of a close mutual friend of ours for his asinine and stupid, STUPID act of marriage infidelity with one of his students at the time. He was incredulous that i completely understood why she hit him and gave him a black eye. Anyway, I often wonder what my best man is teaching the new journalists these days that our country depends on to have a basic and reality-based understanding of the world around us. I no longer have his number. We’ve completely lost touch. I’m OK with that, but still, i wonder a lot about what’s being taught in a modern school of journalism.
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He’s not that great at ramps either. I hope they make it wide enough for his golf cart.
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Yup. It’s a corollary of Cleek’s Law, in that it is subject to turn on a dime.
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Back in the 80s when I was working at the Post Office, there was this guy there that went to a Latin only Mass on Sundays. He considered people that went to English Mass, well, just a step above someone like me, who has stopped going to any Mass at all.
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Probably. I started undergrad in 1974. Unable to pay the freight, I dropped out in 1976. In 1977, I tried again, but my workplace instituted mandatory overtime which cost me my courses. I tried one more time, re-enrolling in 1979, this time with support from my management, and graduated in 1983. I started out as an environmental studies major, but ended up with an electrical engineering degree (that’s what the company was willing to help pay for.)
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And the suckers fall for it every time
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