At Drunken Stepfather, "Elena Iulia Rotari of the Day."
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Monday, January 21, 2019
How's It Going to Be?
When you don't know me?
It's Third Eye Blind.
No drive time music until February, but I just started singing this song, for some reason, while I was doing the dishes. (*Shrugs.*)
It's Third Eye Blind.
No drive time music until February, but I just started singing this song, for some reason, while I was doing the dishes. (*Shrugs.*)
Jennifer Delacruz's MLK Holiday Weather
Nice weather for the holiday.
Here's the fabulous Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego:
Here's the fabulous Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego:
Prince Philip Stokes Debate on Older Drivers
This is really good, at the New York Times (two), and an extra hilarious tweet below:
The crash, involving as it did a famously headstrong and famously old royal, occasioned much discussion about whether Britain should clamp down on older people driving. https://t.co/Uq5BGiv0nw
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) January 18, 2019
Two days after Prince Philip was involved in a car crash that injured two women and sparked a debate on older drivers in Britain, he was photographed driving without a seatbelt https://t.co/E3f7bQCjTh
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) January 20, 2019
Journalists: "Brexit will monopolize the front pages for weeks!"
— Ross Baines Art (@RossBainesArt) January 18, 2019
Prince Phillip: "Hold my beer...” pic.twitter.com/5oIq7oWosK
As MLK Foresaw, U.S. Racism's Been Largely Overcome
From the great Jeff Jacoby, at the Boston Globe:
.@Jeff_Jacoby: As MLK foresaw, racism in America has been largely overcome https://t.co/KJR7G4eO1S— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) January 18, 2019
“I have no despair about the future,” wrote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” “I have no fear about the outcome of our struggle in Birmingham. . . . We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.”Keep reading.
He was right.
It is a commonplace that racism is America’s original sin. Hardly a day goes by without attention being focused on instances of the racial injustice, friction, and double standards that can still be found in this nation. Open the morning paper or watch cable news, and there will be something to remind you of the country’s racial tensions — from controversy over flying the Confederate flag to NFL players protesting police brutality, from accusations of voter suppression in Georgia to an Iowa congressman defending “white nationalism.” It isn’t surprising that when Americans are asked in opinion polls whether race relations are getting better, many of them — sometimes most of them — gloomily reply that racism is still a major problem.
But it isn’t. It is only a minor problem now, one that has grown steadily less toxic and less entrenched. King predicted confidently that America would surmount its benighted racial past, and his confidence was not misplaced. Though his own life was cut short by a racist assassin, he foresaw that racism would lose its grip on American life.
“We’ve got some difficult days ahead, but . . . I’ve been to the mountaintop,” King said in his final speech. “I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land.” He knew that American racism would wither away. Fifty-one years later, it mostly has.
Consider some of the data on changing American values...
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Where Have You Gone, Martin Luther King, Jr.?
A great video, featuring Jason Riley, at Prager University:
More on Idiot Instagram Influencer Caroline Calloway
Following-up from yesterday, "The Case of Caroline Calloway and the Influencer Economy."
See Robert Stacy McCain, at the Other McCain, "Caroline Calloway and the ‘Creativity Workshop’ Influencer Tour From Hell."
See Robert Stacy McCain, at the Other McCain, "Caroline Calloway and the ‘Creativity Workshop’ Influencer Tour From Hell."
Caroline Calloway and the ‘Creativity Workshop’ Influencer Tour From Hell https://t.co/tk3evITb8W— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) January 17, 2019
h/t @Ceilidhann (and @FlyingDog beer) pic.twitter.com/jjM6gmGcdn
Miss Calloway is 27 now. She’s no longer the fresh-faced girl posting #adventuregram photos and spending Daddy’s money on an extended vacation “studying art history” in Cambridge. She’s got hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers but has yet to succeed in monetizing her “brand” because she’s unwilling to do any actual work.RTWT.
Like, you land a $500,000 book contact — half a million dollars! — at age 24, and you can’t deliver the manuscript? Why? Because you were too busy “studying art history” and hanging out with Oscar? Or was it because you realized that your shallow life wasn’t really interesting enough to merit a “memoir”? But if somebody’s willing to pay you $500,000 for it, maybe you could fake it? For $500,000 I could write all kinds of wild stuff, maybe even the True Story of the Kentucky Fried Chicken Robbery, although otherwise I’d have to invoke my Fifth Amendment rights on advice of my Samoan lawyer...
Can Dems Keep a 'Big Tent' in 2020?
Nah.
It's going to be a two year clown show at this point.
At McClathcy, "Democratic leaders fret: Can we keep our big tent in 2020?"
It's going to be a two year clown show at this point.
At McClathcy, "Democratic leaders fret: Can we keep our big tent in 2020?"
So @katieglueck and I talked to a bunch of county chairs from areas Democrats flipped in '18, to see what they think the party needs to do to win in 2020: Energize the base, show statesmanship, and ...
— Alex Roarty (@Alex_Roarty) January 17, 2019
“People want to have a selfie with candidates”https://t.co/D3x8HoFeS7
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
The Case of Caroline Calloway and the Influencer Economy
Every semester I have students read this Cal Newport op-ed at the New York Times, "Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It."
When I announce this as required first week's readings I usually see a few frowns and long faces, and one semester a student challenged me about the article, saying that people make money as "influencers," or some such thing.
The influencer thing was new to me at the time, but I got it. Nowadays it's a big thing.
I really like Sally Fitzgibbons, for example, but she's so into the product promotions, she never even likes a tweet from a follower. (I like interaction. I've had likes from television stars [Angie Harmon, for example] and lots of interaction with hot sports media and television personalities [like Liz Habib, who's the local Fox 11 sports anchor and a smokin' hottie].)
In any case, you can see why I'm not so sold on the "influencer economy." And after reading this bombshell from Kayleigh Donaldson, it's case closed.
See, "The Empty Mason Jar of the Influencer Economy: The Case of Caroline Calloway and her Creativity Workshop Tour."
Mind-boggling, really. (*SMH.*)
When I announce this as required first week's readings I usually see a few frowns and long faces, and one semester a student challenged me about the article, saying that people make money as "influencers," or some such thing.
The influencer thing was new to me at the time, but I got it. Nowadays it's a big thing.
I really like Sally Fitzgibbons, for example, but she's so into the product promotions, she never even likes a tweet from a follower. (I like interaction. I've had likes from television stars [Angie Harmon, for example] and lots of interaction with hot sports media and television personalities [like Liz Habib, who's the local Fox 11 sports anchor and a smokin' hottie].)
In any case, you can see why I'm not so sold on the "influencer economy." And after reading this bombshell from Kayleigh Donaldson, it's case closed.
See, "The Empty Mason Jar of the Influencer Economy: The Case of Caroline Calloway and her Creativity Workshop Tour."
Mind-boggling, really. (*SMH.*)
For the full story in excruciating detail, here is my piece on @pajiba on Caroline Calloway, her brief creativity workshop & the hollowness of "authenticity" as a brand.https://t.co/GxezF5WytL— Kayleigh Donaldson (@Ceilidhann) January 14, 2019
Nina Agdal Takes It Off
At Drunken Stepfather, "NINA AGDAL NAKED OF THE DAY."
And at the Sun U.K., "Supermodel Nina Agdal shows off sensational figure as she poses in white bikini."
Still more at the New York Post, "Nina Agdal says she wouldn’t date Jack Brinkley-Cook if he were broke."
BONUS: Nina Agdal Topless.
And at the Sun U.K., "Supermodel Nina Agdal shows off sensational figure as she poses in white bikini."
Supermodel Nina Agdal shows off sensational figure as she poses in white bikini https://t.co/jjv0iq5lpe— The Sun (@TheSun) January 15, 2019
Still more at the New York Post, "Nina Agdal says she wouldn’t date Jack Brinkley-Cook if he were broke."
BONUS: Nina Agdal Topless.
Monday, January 14, 2019
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