- The Big Empty explores the strange similarity between Donald Trump and someone you know.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors is unimpressed with the art of the Trump deal, which turns out to make money by refusing to pay tiny businesses and lone individuals what they are owed until they agree to lesser amounts.
- Hillary Clinton is deeply scarred by past controversies. Donald Trump, of all people, calls her a crook. Blue Gal uses one image to provide a wordless perspective on how she got those scars.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post reveals which party platform from American history accurately reflects contemporary Republican standards, and urges moderate Republicans to reclaim their party.
- Last Of The Millenniums explains one important reason for government regulation.
- Vincent at A wayfarer’s notes wakes from a dream, ruminates on how much he supports leaving the European Union, and deals quite rudely with a couple of canvassers who disagree. Sad. Not up to the usual standards of this gifted writer. Update: Vincent calls my attention to the fact, quite apparent in his piece, that his rudeness to the canvassers was part of his dream. No excuse comes to mind, although I do offer the mitigation of not yet having my coffee when I read his piece. See our brief exchange in comments.
- I suppose you could call it the darker side of affluenza: the too-much-to-lose defense. Max’s Dad rants against the ethic that allows a competitive swimmer at an exclusive ivy-league university to lose a few months of his privileged life for raping an unconscious student, on the theory that anything more severe would impede his future.
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“Vincent . . . wakes up from a dream . . . deals quite rudely with a couple of canvassers who disagree. Sad. Not up to the usual standards of this gifted writer.”
You’re right, Burr. I didn’t make it clear that the canvassers, and consequent invasion of 9 people, were all part of the dream. Not up to my usual standards, if this was so easily misunderstood.
On the other hand, Vincent, there is little defense against the occasional obtuse reader.
My apologies.
That’s gracious of you, Burr, but don’t accuse yourself of being obtuse. Bryan M White had a similar problem when he read it and so I started the dream part with “I dreamt” at the beginning of the paragraph. Then after your remarks I saw that it was necessary to clarify that the next paragraph was still in the dream, so added the additional clarification.
I believe that a cultural difference separates us here. We English take risks with the reader or listener, sometimes distinguishing joke, satire or fantasy from seriousness by the lightest of hints. Humour and humor are not just differentiated by the spelling. (as gasoline is not the same as petrol—gasoline is cheaper!)
And I’ve just found the difference explained here http://uk.businessinsider.com/why-americans-dont-get-irony-2015-1?r=US&IR=T
Normally I try to take it into account, & am grateful for feedback on lapses.