FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022Anthropology lessons: Belief in QAnon is on the march, according to a large new survey described in the New York Times.The report was done by Tiffany Hsu. Headline included, her report begins like this:41 million Americans are QAnon believers, survey find … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022Now she's moving on: What is an "imitation of life?" An imitation of journalistic / intellectual life?Almost surely, opinions will differ. For one possible example, consider the latest letter to one of Slate's advice columnists—the latest letter of a cer … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2022...tell a familiar tale: A familiar headline appears above a front-page report from this morning's Washington Post:Prosecutors in Trump probe quit after new DA seems to abandon plan to seek indictment of former presidentA similar headline appears on the … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2022This launched a thousand scripts: Several weeks ago, in reaction to a comment to a certain blog post delivered by a history teacher, we rented the famous film Casablanca and watched it several times.According to an array of scholars, Casablanca is the g … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2022What Greg Sargent said: We still hope to get to what many have said about the Vice President Pence. Here it is, in a recent iteration by Ed Kilgore:KILGORE (2/20/22): But perhaps the most jarring example of selective memory about Trump’s election coup … | Continue reading