tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post7660692714476019711..comments2024-03-28T08:51:18.908-04:00Comments on the daily howler: HEART(S) OF DUMBNESS: The associate professor saw right through the ruse!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-35003254346373871662020-05-07T20:03:22.669-04:002020-05-07T20:03:22.669-04:00Hello viewers around the Globe, I was despondent b...Hello viewers around the Globe, I was despondent because i had a very small penis, about 2.5 inches soft and 4 inches hard not nice enough to satisfy a woman, i have been in so many relationship, but cut off because of my situation, i have used so many product which doctors prescribe for me, but none could offer me the help i searched for. i saw some few comments on the internet about this specialist called Dr, OLHIA and i decided to contact him on his {oliha.miraclemedicine@gmail.com} so I decided to give his herbal product a try. i emailed him and he got back to me, he gave me some comforting words with his herbal pills for Penis Enlargement, Within 3 week of it, i began to feel the enlargement of my penis, " and now it just 4 weeks of using his products my penis is about 9 inches longer, and i had to settle out with my Ex girlfriend Ella, i was surprised when she said that she is satisfied with my sex and i have got a large penis. Am so happy, thanks to Dr OLIHA I also learn that Dr OLIHA also help with Breast Enlargement Hips and Bums Enlargement etc.. If you are in any situation with a little Penis, weak ejaculation, small breast_hips_bums do get to Dr OLIHA now for help on his email {oliha.miraclemedicine@gmail.com} or whats app him number: +2349038382931Relanes Ihabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10450627962285282111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-30294452059489623012019-10-17T13:17:46.365-04:002019-10-17T13:17:46.365-04:00"Do you always think you know what's good..."Do you always think you know what's good for other people?"<br /><br />Good question from the forced pregnancy brigade. Good. in the sense it highlights their hypocrisy, of course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-50016695538526797612019-10-17T12:29:02.130-04:002019-10-17T12:29:02.130-04:00And what had "ingrained a narrow mindset"...And what had "ingrained a narrow mindset" in you and in Miss Potts, to insist that any public expenditures "ultimately benefited" the residents -- when the residents themselves believe otherwise? <br /><br />Do you always think you know what's good for other people? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-22369208016619687712019-10-17T11:15:38.616-04:002019-10-17T11:15:38.616-04:00I never interpreted Potts' essay as arguing th...I never interpreted Potts' essay as arguing that the opposition to paying for a librarian or for a mild property tax increase was coded racism (in fact, she explicitly argued it was more complicated than that). What I took instead was that the decline/hard times of the region, compounded by the collapse of shale oil, had ingrained a narrow mindset in the residents that was suspicious of any public expenditures as "wasteful", even it ultimately benefited them. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Peter Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16487445526366418524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-42436899628795005292019-10-16T21:31:30.245-04:002019-10-16T21:31:30.245-04:00But there are well-to-do people in every county an...<i>But there are well-to-do people in every county and community who, when faced with revenue drying up, refuse to contribute any extra. These people are often called “Republicans.”</i><br /><br />I couldn’t find 2016 election results for Clinton, Arkansas, but Clinton is the county seat of Van Buren Country, which voted 73% Republican. Very few of these voters are “well-to-do.” I had to stitch together several tables of demographic data for Clinton, but I estimate that about 10% of the population of Clinton has an annual income over $50K. That’s about 155 people. (Margins of error are high for earnings data, maybe 10%-15%.) Nobody reports over $100K per year.<br /><br />(For comparison, about 30% of the US population earns over $50K/yr.)<br /><br />These well-to-do people in Clinton, Arkansas who could save the library and pay the librarian what she’s worth outside Arkansas are figments of your hypothetical. More people in Clinton don’t have a high school diploma than have bachelors degrees or higher. The seven years before 2018 saw a slow trickle of people leave the city. In 2018, the city added six more souls.<br /><br />Regressive taxes are already high — 9% sales tax, of which Van Buren gets 2.5%. Income taxes are low and have been cut, the result being that the state shares less with its counties. Potts mentioned the shale oil boom. In case you’re wondering how that works, the owners of mineral rights pay property tax. Not to mention the influx of oil and gas workers who paid the sales tax.<br /><br />When the boom was over, Van Buren was left with trashed roads, and Clinton had contaminated drinking water from the hydraulic fracking. Civic dedication to abstract ideals can’t save Clinton from immiseration.<br /><br />As the bard sings, “Anyone with any sense had already left town.”<br />deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-29651770986851944622019-10-16T14:03:46.809-04:002019-10-16T14:03:46.809-04:00Bob criticizes the New York Times, but not its Rig...Bob criticizes the New York Times, but not its Right-wing slant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-45322713867623544282019-10-16T12:05:56.047-04:002019-10-16T12:05:56.047-04:00"Does a library provide better service if the..."Does a library provide better service if the librarian gets a bigger salary?"<br /><br />If you were really a capitalist, and not the communist you think you aren't, you wouldn't have to ask that question.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-9614280422543882602019-10-16T08:04:07.563-04:002019-10-16T08:04:07.563-04:00Somerby's main contribution to liberalism is t...Somerby's main contribution to liberalism is to remind people that <br /><br />"one may call oneself a liberal again and again, and be a Trumpanzee" to misquote ShakespeareCentristnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-48358110428400789702019-10-16T05:51:59.307-04:002019-10-16T05:51:59.307-04:00@deadrat
Of course there are external factors weig...@deadrat<br />Of course there are external factors weighing on rural areas. But there are well-to-do people in every county and community who, when faced with revenue drying up, refuse to contribute any extra. These people are often called “Republicans.” Rural areas deserve to be helped, but the local citizens who can afford it need to pitch in as well. The solution isn’t going to be found by opposing all tax increases, local, state, and federal, but that is the mindset in many conservative areas. And it certainly doesn’t help when they drive educated people away. That is counterproductive. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-88691537713832362852019-10-16T05:21:00.896-04:002019-10-16T05:21:00.896-04:00Sure. It’s about the media. That’s why Bob calls l...Sure. It’s about the media. That’s why Bob calls liberals lazy, dumb and immoral and states that all of the Democratic presidential candidates are terrible. That’s “media criticism”...riiiight. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-30797352487109943312019-10-16T01:13:09.622-04:002019-10-16T01:13:09.622-04:00PU|SU.PU|SU.deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-2131915718423416322019-10-16T01:10:08.645-04:002019-10-16T01:10:08.645-04:00The library may be a symbol, but we can be sure th...The library may be a symbol, but we can be sure that it’s a building, one that apparently the citizens of Clinton, Arkansas are having trouble paying for. If the town is indeed, as you say, “dying,” then why isn’t their refusal to raise taxes a refusal to pay money they themselves don’t have?<br /><br />It’s all well and good to tut-tut about how the community attitude won’t help improve things and indeed will cause continued languishing. But I suspect the continuing decay and isolation of rural communities arise from larger, external sources that the “best” local attitudes in the world are helpless to combat.deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-26632680146838132652019-10-16T00:59:37.283-04:002019-10-16T00:59:37.283-04:00Somerby, like deadrat, thinks we should take at fa...<i>Somerby, like deadrat, thinks we should take at face value the coded language now used to camouflage racism.</i><br /><br />Please quit telling me what I think. That’s my job.<br /><br />I don’t think we should take at face value coded language for racism. I do think that coded language requires a key of context. When Reagan gave a speech ostensibly about states’ rights at a county fair just outside Philadelphia, Mississippi, no one paying attention could have honestly thought this was a talk on American federalism.<br /><br />You have no such key in this instance. Your claim that small-town Arkansas residents think black people are “lazy professionals” is laughable.<br /><br /><i>Where is Somerby's evidence that these people are not racist…?</i><br /><br />Sorry, but this is as dumb as anything said in Clinton, Arkansas. TDH isn’t making a claim that “these people” are not racist; he doubts the letter-writer’s claim that they are. The letter-writer has made a claim and it’s the letter-writer who bears the burdens of production and proof. TDH doesn’t believe those twin obligations have been met.<br /><br />You figure that the people in Clinton, Arkansas must be racist because “they have a history of behaving in racist ways that goes back to the beginning of their state's history.” You have to go back about 190 years to get to that beginning. Must be a lotta really old people in Clinton.deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-67401253121499729362019-10-16T00:39:35.297-04:002019-10-16T00:39:35.297-04:00BTW Bob criticizes Fox News and Donald Trump all t...BTW Bob criticizes Fox News and Donald Trump all the time.David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-10925390519230848662019-10-16T00:33:42.347-04:002019-10-16T00:33:42.347-04:00Another Anonymous Ignoramus demands of TDH,
Give ...Another Anonymous Ignoramus demands of TDH,<br /><br /><i>Give me any other example where you took a liberal position on any issue. … Or for that matter, cite an instance where you criticized right wing nuts.</i><br /><br />The subject matter of this blog is the failures of mainstream corporate media, especially the portions representing themselves as “liberal” or “progressive.”<br /><br />Beyond that, It’s not a blog about “issues.” Instead it’s a blog about how issues are reported discussed. It’s right up there at the top: “musings on the mainstream ‘press corps’ and the american discourse.”<br /><br />What’s so hard about this?<br /><br />You’re like a guy who goes to a chess tournament and demands to know of the organizers why contestants aren’t shouting “Bingo!”<br /><br /><br />deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-90583321668524157112019-10-15T23:34:35.941-04:002019-10-15T23:34:35.941-04:00yesyesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-71066762256576244752019-10-15T23:09:15.246-04:002019-10-15T23:09:15.246-04:00You have a good point, @1:33. That aphorism may b...You have a good point, @1:33. That aphorism may be outmoded. Some conservatives no longer assume good faith on the part of liberals. E.g., why do liberals support policies that harm blacks? In the old days, conservatives thought the reason was lack of understanding. Today, racism is more viewed as the reason.<br /><br />Bob Somerby doesn't go quite that far, but he does accuse liberals of not really caring about black children.David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-25503489361418680742019-10-15T23:06:00.087-04:002019-10-15T23:06:00.087-04:00Does a library provide better service if the libra...Does a library provide better service if the librarian gets a bigger salary?David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-40364596610970093942019-10-15T20:36:17.341-04:002019-10-15T20:36:17.341-04:00You feel confident judging this woman's ethnic...You feel confident judging this woman's ethnicity from that photo? I sure don't. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-44236764418064512762019-10-15T20:31:17.839-04:002019-10-15T20:31:17.839-04:00Or for that matter, cite an instance where you cri...Or for that matter, cite an instance where you criticized right wing nuts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-89605217231320769492019-10-15T20:29:13.961-04:002019-10-15T20:29:13.961-04:00Better trolling please.Better trolling please.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-45882523365855622842019-10-15T20:28:21.500-04:002019-10-15T20:28:21.500-04:00Anyone who votes to increase a librarian's sal...Anyone who votes to increase a librarian's salary or to build a library has a right to feel self-impressed. It is those who denigrate learning who are self-defeating, since every single advance that humanity has made over time has been the result of the kind of investment in learning represented by libraries.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-63906470419610834232019-10-15T20:22:58.791-04:002019-10-15T20:22:58.791-04:00Bob,
Can you cite a single instance in the last 2...Bob, <br />Can you cite a single instance in the last 20 years where you supported a liberal cause?<br />Beautiful black children in Baltimore doesn't count. <br />Once every 6 months you use them as your beard. <br />Give me any other example where you took a liberal position on any issue.<br />Cite one instance. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-21000034399504246042019-10-15T19:42:09.036-04:002019-10-15T19:42:09.036-04:00TDH writing a story criticizing a conservative'...TDH writing a story criticizing a conservative's column in the NYY ? Hardly, TDH's specialty is defending the likes of Moore, Johnson and Trump. Centristnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-50861341232980442172019-10-15T19:37:56.803-04:002019-10-15T19:37:56.803-04:00Somerby hopes you will not have read Potts article...<i>Somerby hopes you will not have read Potts article....</i><br /><br />Opposum, how much into the article did you, yourself, read? You write:<br /><br /><i>Did they not vote her an appropriate salary because she was black (Potts doesn't say)?</i><br /><br />Right, Potts didn't "say" whether their opposition to a $25/hr wage rate for the head librarian was because she was black. Instead, the article did leave a pretty big clue as to whether that was the reason: <a href="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/10/06/opinion/06Potts5/merlin_162023070_590c43b3-b6fe-4911-8862-08ecd2fffb7a-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp" rel="nofollow"><b>LINK</b></a> CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.com