Month: December 2018

 
From PZ Myers:

As you’ve probably heard, Neil deGrasse Tyson has been accused of, and is being investigated for, inappropriate behavior with women. Three women have made accusations of varying severity, which is starting to add up.

Tyson has made a response to the accusations. I think it’s a good one. It is the case that if you are a popular celebrity with many encounters with the public, you’ll slip up now and then and cross a boundary that someone finds inappropriate, and the question is whether you can recognize that, draw back, and apologize with some sympathy for your accuser. Tyson demonstrates that here.

I’m sure it’s even more difficult for an exuberant fellow like Tyson. I’m recalling one event where he and I met for the first time, and he rushed over and gave me a great big bear hug — more than that, we practically had a wrestling match then and there. He’s passionate and enthusiastic and unreserved with everyone, and looking back on it…what if I were more reluctant to accept physical contact? What if I’d been a woman? How would that encounter have been interpreted? I can see how his wholeheartedness is going to occasionally get him into trouble, but I don’t want a timid, reserved Neil deGrasse Tyson.

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From Green Eagle:

And the typo of the month, from the Wall Street Journal:

“Vladimir Putin is president of Russia. An editing mistake erroneously identified him as Vladimir Trump in an earlier version of this article.”

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We went to gallows humor when my employer made that minor change. We knew it meant the company was going down.

Now the NRA makes the same minor change and it gives us hope.

Continue reading “The NRA Killed the Coffee”

• This week’s note in Trumpian Alternative Facts comes from David Zurawik of The Baltimore Sun, who points to a few simple steps news organizations are taking in covering public lies.
   
• Iron Knee at Political Irony points to a few things we don’t hear after a blue wave.
   
• Jonathan Bernstein watches Republican office holders, and sees how Republican office holders watch voters and the way voters just reacted to my President. He concludes that President Trump is losing his influence with those Republican office holders.
   
• Jon Perr at PERRspectives marvels at the continuing success of the powerful Obama economic expansion.
   
• This is truly the age of video and the cameras to record it. Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged watches the southern border we all are watching as our America becomes the country known for engulfing little kids with internationally-banned chemicals. She seems to take no joy in pointing out that this America is not that different from the America she knows.
   
• North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz suggests what once-upon-a-time would not have required a reminder: that Christians do not applaud the tear-gassing of children.
   
• What do two former Presidents, a former Secretary of State, a special prosecutor, and two former attorneys general all have in common? Green Eagle knows, and now so do we. My President is campaigning to imprison them all for treason. Maybe he’s joking? Or maybe not?
   
• (O)CT(O)PUS resurfaces (Yay!) at The Swash Zone pointing out the bloodline that runs from Joseph McCarthy to Donald Trump.
   
• Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass discovers that global warming and rising seas will destroy Kentucky. How? By reading a Trump administration report that that same Trump administration has tried to hide.
   
• Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson covers surprise and anger as conservatives discover that, after campaigning against restrictive anti-abortion laws, the Governor-elect of Wisconsin really meant what he kept saying he meant.
   
• PZ Myers looks at what Megyn Kelly considered as “an exit strategy” and how much instant cash resulted, and concludes that he clearly is not making enough racist remarks.