THE DAILY HOWLER
BREAKING: Another fine BREAKING NEWS discussion!
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2018 Did this question even make sense? At 9 PM Eastern, CNN broke it. Under terms of current Hard Pundit Law, every weeknight evening must involve some type of BREAKING NEWS. Last night, this was it: CUOMO (7/26/18): We have a Cuomo Prime Time exclusive tonight... We have CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein and Jim Sciutto, our chief national security correspondent for CNN. Jim
BREAKING: At long last, the Times gets it right!
MONDAY, JULY 23, 2018 Rachel Maddow, Kevin Drum and the children and parents of Flint: For starters, the New York Times should be saluted for what it has done. On the other hand, a person must ask why it took so long. Also, why today's report appears in the form of an op-ed column, not as a front-page news report or as an analysis piece. Today's report concerns blood lead levels in Flint. It prov
BREAKING: Avenatti for commander in chief!
THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2018 Whatever became of that thug: Now he belongs to the ages. According to the Washington Post, Michael Avenatti is parlaying his ownership of Lawrence O'Donnell into a run for the White House. He'll be speaking in Iowa next month. Meanwhile, whatever became of that thug? Back in March, Stephanie Clifford told the world that she'd been threatened by a thug in a Las Vegas parki
BREAKING: Did Carter Page meet with the Igors?
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 2018 Top blogger says he knows: Did Carter Page actually meet with the Igors? Did he meet with Igor Sechin, president of a Russian energy company and a close associate of Putin? Did he meet with Igor Divyekin, an even more menacing figure? In his famous dossier, Christopher Steele alleged that Page met with each of the Igors during his trip to Moscow in July 2016. This claim w
WHAT WE DID: Reviewers sell a silly Group Story!
WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 2018 Part 3—For decades, we've purchased such tales: On the back of The Order of Time, the reader is assailed, indeed propagandized, by the standard encomia. First up is The Financial Times. Under the heading PRAISE FOR CARLO ROVELLI, we're told that the Financial Times once said this about that: "The physicist known for making complex science intelligible." On that same back
TRIBAL SNAPSHOTS: Behaviors of a second band!
THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2018 Interlude—A snapshot of the press corps: "How did it get so far?" The question was first asked by Don Corleone, a business associate of Donald J. Trump's businessman father. Today, the question is being asked again. There are several answers. Last week's questioning of Agent Strzok highlighted a type of behavior our own tribe can't see. We refer to the decades of disdain o
SARDONICKY
What Stale Hell IsThis?
"He felt constantly unappreciated and harassed by others, was frequently suspicious of many of those around him... vindictive, seething with unfocused hostility". (He had) "a permanent "sense of insecurity and frustration... leading to frequently bungling attempts at compensation... and a need to show the world who was boss." (He filled his White House with) "big-bellied good natured guys who saw
A Personal Note
Sardonicky / 1d
One of the upstairs tenants in my apartment building had the bright idea of hanging a sweatshirt on one of the sprinkler heads in their unit. As a result there was a massive flood the likes of which this complex has never seen. Two or three apartments were destroyed along with all their contents. Several more (including mine) were discovered to have severe interior wall damage which will require
New Litmus Test For Patriotism: Loyalty To the Police State
Treason is in the air. If you hate everything that Trump stands for, but still agree with him that #Russiagate is a fraud, then it naturally follows that you are just as much a traitor as he allegedly is. Hysteria is in the air. Trump betrayed the United States by meeting with Vladimir Putin, who did attack us, is attacking us, and will continue to attack us. If you don't believe it, then you wer
Happy Fourth of July
"These principles had not their origin in him, but in the original establishment, many centuries back; and they were become too deeply rooted to be removed, and the augean stable of parasites and plunderers too abominably filthy to be cleansed, by anything, short of a complete and universal revolution." Thomas Paine Thomas Paine could just as well have been writing about why the liberal hand-wrin
Chuck Schumer, Comedian
My senator, Chuck Schumer of New York, wants me to call my senators to express my displeasure with Trump's Supreme Court nominee. The rights of organized labor depend upon my phone call, but even more the fate of Roe v Wade and the "Affordable" Care Act depends upon me and a couple hundred million other Americans picking up the phone and imagining, if only for one minute, that we still live in a
The Art of the Anti-Trump Dog Whistle
Sardonicky / 9d
What do Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth have in common (besides, that is, being the carefully manufactured celebrity public images which mask and protectthe private pursuit of power and wealth by neoliberal capitalism at the
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