- Via The Verge: No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.
- From Margaret Sullivan: An ugly case of ‘false balance’ in the New York Times.
- Via WRAL: Kennedy sues NC elections officials to get name off ballots. The entire Kennedy candidacy has been nothing but farce.
- Via HuffPo: JD Vance Blasts Teachers Union Head For Not Having ‘A Single Child’ In Resurfaced Clip.
- Via the AP: A Georgia Democrat seeks to unseat an indicted Trump elector who says he only did what he was told.
“I would characterize my involvement as being a good soldier who did what he was told to do and was following the advice of attorneys who do this for a living,” said Still.
Who is going to tell him what the excuse makes people think of?
While Mr. Crooks’s motive remains opaque, his online searches reveal someone who was looking for an opportunity to pull off a spectacular attack that would garner widespread attention, by either inflicting mass casualties or killing someone famous. Thus far, that profile more closely resembles that of a mass shooter than a politically motivated assassin.
- More JD. One of the things that strikes me, which is at the very beginning of the clip, is that he derides people for being agnostic or atheist and that “their only value system is to achieve in a very conventional way”–which is an odd thing for a former venture capitalist to critique (and, obviously, that’s only a side observation). I will note that it is standard fare in conservative religious circles to assert that people who don’t believe as they do are a) filling the void with something else (which varies) and b) that they are secretly miserable because the non-religious thing they filled the void with isn’t working.
