Some time in the last few days we had the offering from Deborah Orr and, oh, the humanity. (The Guardian: Julian Assange is not alone in his lack of empathy for women)
How about we refer back to Election 2016 and its total lack of empathy for anyone. How's your teenage heart now, darlin'.
There was some slashing earlier on Twitter from someone who is still carrying a torch for Hillary Clinton and I have to assume she does not read too much. Many don't and, particularly with Facebook, online 'news' is all they ever get. Marshall McLuhan said, ages ago, the medium is the message and Facebook may well be the sorriest medium anywhere due to its reliance on mainstream news and heavy filtering of anything else.
The troubles with the pop news channels (e.g. CNN, Fox, The Guardian, etc) are they're heavily-manipulated and the writers are lazy. None of them update their pages much more than once a day while Russia Today keeps pumping out new articles all day long. The Guardian sometimes has some highly-insightful articles but Deborah Orr won't be writing them.
Hopefully that's not true and she actually has other interests but, as shown by the current article, she's just journo dust in the wind since she's bought completely the Washingtonian character assassination of Julian Assange. Here at the Rockhouse, we call such people 'pawns.'
There's nothing quite so scary to Americans as truth.
2016 the Year of the Victim
Oh God, it makes me just weep (larfs).
In my life I have never seen so many victims per square inch and that goes all the way back to the Vietnam days when many, many families lost their sons. Today they sound like they lost their entire families and their dogs but nothin' even happened.
Here at the Rockhouse, the situation has always been the same since if you ain't livin' then you're just dyin' and those are the only choices.
I'll do my own victim bit with insurance companies and VA but I'd hardly characterize those as representative of Ithaka or who would read it.
Frequent dialog at Wally World:
Me: can't complain
Him: who would listen?
Smiles and larfs from both
- Insert a generic slam of online narcissism since that does to reality what gravity lensing does to galaxies -
Ed: bends the hell out of the light?
Roger that.
It's endlessly puzzling to me that articles with lots of goodness don't attract too much attention relative to the others.
Perhaps some think they go out of style but Barney Kessel and his jazz don't go out of style.
This one remains inexplicable.
Ed: are you whining?
Nah but jazz musicians have plenty of room to whine. They learn their music better than anyone else around ... but no-one comes to jazz concerts. Now that is one bluesy bitch!
Ed: the music is too hard
Or people are just lazy (larfs).
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