Sunday Night

Tomorrow is...a holiday!

Everybody Should Learn To Code

One of my (I am getting old and cranky so there are many) pet peeves is any version of this. All knowledge is good. Some learning also teaches you to think and learn better. Some skills might have good job prospects associated with them, but such things are "trendy" to some degree so by the time you decide you should learn to code you will have probably missed the gravy train.

I've heard many versions of this: everybody should learn a bit of economics, everybody should knit, everybody should garden, everybody should study math, everybody should study Latin, everybody should take humanities, everybody should be STEM majors, everybody should learn an instrument, everybody should..

I mean, everybody should! It's all good. But we can't all do it all, and while a bit of generalization is good, we all gotta specialize a bit both in our vocations and avocations...

Imagine Working Worth These People

Everybody in the White House is horrible. And while I get that horrible people find a certain kinship sometimes, you still are working with a bunch of other horrible people who all spend their whole day whining, er, leaking, to the press.

Afternoon Thread

Holiday weekend blogging schedule.

New World Order

Maybe not exactly how I envisaged the end of the America empire.

BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel is urging European Union nations to stick together in the face of new uncertainty over the United States and other challenges.

Merkel said Sunday at a campaign event in Bavaria that “the times in which we can fully count on others are somewhat over, as I have experienced in the past few days.”

Welcome Home

And happy Sunday to your lawyers!

It is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the White House are fabricated lies made up by the #FakeNews media.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2017

Morning Thread

Still a few days left in Echidne's fundraiser week. Daily blogging is hard work and bloggers like Echidne, who bring a wealth of experience, knowledge and thought deserve to be compensated. If you can manage a few sheckles, now is the time to donate. After all, how many feminist bloggers with a Ph.D in economics and an expert in health care do we have?

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Frightened Rabbit - Modern Leper

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Margot and The Nuclear So and Sos - Vampires in Blue Dresses

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The Most Serene Republic - Present Of Future End

The Beat So Sweet

Journalism is corrupt. Of course it is! I mean, journalists (and their editors) face trade-offs like everybody does. Perhaps it's worthwhile printing the occasional bit of bullshit in exchange for access! I am not actually arguing with this. I do think there's a bit of a problem with this because most readers have no sense of how the sausage gets made, and journalists like to present themselves as objective truthtellers. Sometimes even the very good ones will print some bullshit as a bit of investment. Again, I am not even saying that this is wrong. But sometimes printing bullshit has big consequences, and that is important, also, too...

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Guess I should finish this. I'm From Barcelona - Get In Line

Life Without Javanka

Aside from his looming legal difficulties, conflicting tales about whether Jared is ready to take his ball and go home. So much for peace in the Middle East and solving the opioid crisis. I had such high hopes.

Javanka are there because Trump needs someone to be in the room to make sure he doesn't wander off and to make sure he "remembers" what is said to him. Without them...

Young

Jared Kushner is 36. When did 36 become "young"?

Related

Presidenting is hard.

President Donald Trump has canceled a rally in Iowa next week, citing "an unforeseen change" in the president's schedule.

"Due to an unforeseen change in President Trump's schedule, we will need to unfortunately postpone the previously scheduled rally in Cedar Rapids on June 1st," according to an email sent from his campaign Saturday.

Remember that the rallies were what he loved, what he wanted to keep doing...

Well Then

I'm a bit mixed on whether we need to know every little health detail about the president, but...

The distance between Donald Trump and his G7 partners was spelled out dramatically today when Theresa May and the leaders of Italy, France, Germany, Japan and Canada strolled the streets of Taormina, Sicily — while he followed in a golf cart.

Martyrs

If the story is as told (no reason to doubt it) jesus fuck these guys are heroes and if I hear of how to help their loved ones let us do that.

Multiple witnesses told KATU the suspect was hurling racial insults at two women, at least one of whom was wearing a hijab. Police wouldn't confirm their ages, but referred to them as "girls" and "young women."
Sgt. Pete Simpson with Portland Police added the suspect appeared to be acting erratically, and wasn't necessarily focused on anti-Muslim insults during the attack.
Two men who came to the women's defense had their throats slashed by the suspect, Sgt. Simpson said.

Diplomacy

Focused on the important things.

“These are the best,” he said, before explaining that his ambivalent attitude towards the EU was a consequence of his experiences trying to set up businesses, notably golf resorts, on the continent.

“He made a lot of references to his personal journey. He explained, for example, the functioning of Europe on the basis of his difficulties in doing business in Ireland,” one source told the Francophone paper.

Morning, Morning

On May 8th, the president's plane landed in D.C. and the president delayed deplaning for forty-five minutes. According to his son-in-law, who exited the plane and then returned twice, the president was busy doing something and did not want to be interrupted. Another aide said he was having a meeting.  Maybe he just needed a nap?

The stupidest person in the world.

I am out so I have to post with my phone but Jared lololololololololol

Philadelphia's Worst Humans

Nicole Paloux.

Not All There

I feel a bit like I'm taking one for the team here, but Trump is not all there and the people who know it have to say so. This is not a clinical diagnosis. This is an observation from someone who has seen Trump on his teevee his whole life and remembers when he was a rich dumbass who could string sentences together like any other rich dumbass Penn "special admissions" graduate instead of a guy who clearly isn't always quite sure where he is. People who work for him and journalists who have spent time with him know this. They have to say it. It's a problem. I don't want President Pence, either, but...