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If you think no one in the mainstream media has any journalism ethics anymore—either because the RWM tells you repeatedly this is so, or because the NYTimes allows the occasional conservative op-ed, or because you sense the scales have fallen from your eyes—then might as well just give up already. Although I will grant you that CBS is basically gone as it’s being gutted from within after money and pressure from without.

Babies are innocent. Once they grow past the baby stage they are guilty as hell.

Mainstream media is as trustworthy as news as it's ever been. It's simply that the landscape has shifted underneath it.

Kilmeade has an evergreen fallback:

I think that might be because they are actually afraid of what God will do to them once they put any critical thought into it. Critical thought is the diametric opposite of faith, and as such threatens the very foundation of faith. It's why many fundamentalist people are suspicious of the very idea of education itself, even starting with grade school, but certainly at levels beyond that when young adults begin to be exposed to previously unencountered ideas. Ideas threaten God.

This gets me to wondering how much failed helicopter parenting has to do with this, if anything. Hypothetically, I can envision where many parents believe it’s going to be as easy as pushing buttons to control their kids growing up—then, when the kids reach the age of pushing back, the parents don’t know how to handle that (perhaps because their own parents didn’t model effective parenting for them), they freak out at the pushback, then go 100% hands off, leaving the kids to their own devices for basically the rest of their childhoods, while the failed parents simply focus on their own interests. How common is that, I wonder.

Because their particular strain of religion demands absolute certainty and zero compromise. It’s all related and of a kind.

Musta saw too many white people getting caught up in the ****canning.

I’m thinking about pulling the ripcord on ORCL right now, or perhaps set some kind of trailing stop on it. It’s already down some -15% from Wednesday's high. Probably should consider that for PLTR and my other tech as well. My only hesitation is the tax hit. Gotta figure something out.

Fire Harris!

Access is everything in competitive for-profit beat journalism, sports or not. How many media outlets banded together to protest when access to White House press conferences was yanked from AP? Divide and conquer simply works.

The Tigers are 21-8 when Skubal starts a game, which means they are 63-56 when he doesn’t. That makes us about a .530 team without him.

Easier to envision trading him now that he’s damaged.

This reads like a joke Dennis Miller would put his audience to sleep with.

How are they retaliating against Stavenhagen?

It will move sales and donations. That’s what it’s about.

Yes, I agree, and the only problem with what sounds like should have been that perfect plan is that the Republican senators were afraid they’d be hanged, literally, by their own radicalized ride-or-die red hat constituents, probably led by their own states’ Republican congressional delegation. Would that have actually happened? No way to know, but those swing-vote senators were not about to FAFO.

The assassination of civility has been very, very profitable.

Don’t underestimate their ability to succeed at hanging this on Teh Left anyway.

Agree with you on all this, but none of that is required for evangelicals to get to heaven—they believe. It’s all about the acceptance of JCAYPLAS. Good works don’t mean did diddley. And that I believe is a purposeful distinction.

It’s the only way they can reasonably justify their otherwise generalized anger at time refusing to stand still.

That’s generally true of those I have met but this one is really self-absorbed and pretty absent when you’re around her.

Yeah, well, I don't know, maybe I'm a little ****ed up here, but, I tend to seek out the logic in arguments. 😏

I don't see how Trump and MAGA precipitated the Kroger cuts? Looks like the same thing that would have happened under any president. Or am I missing something in the story?

The one trans person I know best is a selfish jerk who’s unpleasant to be around. But even so, so what? She has a right to be as unpleasant as anyone else does. Everyone should be allowed to actualize their true selves on their own terms.