FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2025
He'd never looked in on The Five: "Man [sic] is the rational animal," Aristotle is widely said to have said.
That's what he is said to have said. He'd never looked in on The Five!
For tomorrow, we'd planned to discuss a twice-told tale—the story Robert Reford told two times, first in Ordinary People (1980), then again, in dreamscape fashion, in The Horse Whisperer (1998).
On occasion, a fellow dreams of writing about something decent, even about something humane.
Then, that fellow may look in on The Five. It's the conundrum we've chosen!
Aristotle used the word “anthropos” which means human, and can be a woman or a man.
ReplyDeleteSomerby's use of [sic] is ironic. He would never be caught dead extending respect to women.
DeleteHe’s a sic anthropos.
DeleteSomerby makes a good point, albeit accidentally. Good decent people don't watch The Five, especially when it occurs during their own lifespan. People get conned by Fox because they have lost their ability to tell right from wrong, good from evil, humane from inhumane. Decent people are repulsed by what happens on Fox and don't continue watching it, even as a social experiment.
ReplyDeleteThe conundrum is why Somerby watches Fox garbage when he presumably should know better, if he is actually liberal as he claims.
He watches it so we don’t have to.
DeleteI follow several bloggers and Twitter users who report on fox and other right wing sites. It’s useful to be aware of what is being said over there and the level of vitriol and propaganda. Most liberals that I know aren’t aware of the depravity over there, because they don’t follow social media like I do. Perhaps there’s something useful to Somerby’s blogging about this. I don’t know if it makes sense to demand that “blue media” report on it though. We may get this stuff mainstreamed via some sort of replacement to kimmel. It’s all very depressing.
DeleteThe View and The Five deserve each other. If Bob were discussing "The View," he could have left out the "sic".
ReplyDelete“Sic” is “cis” spelled backwards.
DeleteSilly DiC spends all his time on nonsense like this when Trump has destroyed South Korean relations and they are halting billions in investments. All over self hating Jew Miller getting his ICE quota, shakling Korean execs and start up techs working to get a giant battery factory going in Alabama going before leaving. Have been on these foreign start up teams a few times in my career. Korea is pissed, and who would do business with these asshole American leaders? Trump is now leading a shithole country. Thanks DiC.
DeleteIt was Georgia.
DeletePaul Pelosi's attacker, David DePape, is an illegal alien who voted illegally for socialist candidates, his life partner is an LGBTQ Russian immigrant named Oxane “Gypsy” Taub, and his home featured BLM and LGBTQ signs and flags. David was NOT a product of the right
ReplyDeletehttps://x.com/amuse/status/1969090307867492454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1969090307867492454%7Ctwgr%5E4fc940873cb0b033ac14fa94064586d55a77929b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F745667%2F
He’s obviously a rightist. That other stuff is blatant false-flaggery.
DeleteNo, that other stuff is disinformation from the right.
DeleteThat makes it OK for Kirk, Fox, and the President to make light of his head being hammered? What in God's name is wrong with you? How is that a winning argument ( aside from the lies). Get help.
DeleteDePape is nuts. He was far left, then he became far right and attacked Mr Pelosi. He never voted in the US.
DeleteGetting beyond coincidence?
ReplyDeleteMan Who Attempted to Kill Brett Kavanaugh Identifies as Transgender Woman, Court Docs Show...In a recent court filing, Nicholas Roske’s defense attorneys call their client “Sophie” and explain in a footnote that they will use female pronouns to refer to him “out of respect.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/man-who-attempted-to-kill-brett-kavanaugh-identifies-as-transgender-woman-court-docs-show/
Suppose you believed you'd been born in the 'wrong' body, that you had some kind of eternal sexual soul inside you. But trapped! In the wrong body!
DeleteHow might anger take possession of you, as you contemplated the cruelty of your fate.
And how would you feel against those who refused to even acknowledge your awful, but undeserved plight.
It's a wonder there's not more transgender murderers.
It’s nothing about an eternal soul. Their brain develops in a way typical for one gender, and the rest of their body develops in a way typical of another gender.
DeleteTransgender people are a tiny percentage of the population and they have committed a tiny percentage of murders.
DeleteDefinitely beyond coincidence:
DeleteAs Israel continues its operation to fully occupy Gaza City, displaced Palestinians in the Israeli-designated "humanitarian zone" in southern Gaza say conditions are worsening as the areas fills up with ever more people.
Reports say that two children were killed, and others were injured reportedly in two Israeli strikes on tents in the zone, raising further questions about safety.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8jzjpzk50o