Drudge
I check-out the Drudge Report every morning. Yes, it has a decidedly conservative bent, but it also includes many intriguing items that aren't political. For example:- "Grandmother holds car thief suspect at gunpoint for deputies..." (Drudge Report 6/19)
- "Divorce rate at 40-year low, unless you're 55 or older..." (ditto)
- "New cruise ship to feature 40-mph roller coaster..." (ditto)
- "Horns growing on young people's skulls. Phone use to blame, research suggests..." (ditto)
- "People who spend more time outdoors lead more fulfilling lives..." (Drudge 6/22)
There Is No Place Like . . . Detroit
"Man strips naked in security line at Detroit Airport" (Drudge 6/22)
Food for Thought
"Cold cut: America can't quit processed meat love affair..." (ditto)
Liberal Media
If they’d admit they have a problem and move on, lots of conservatives would just give up on the topic. It’s the infuriating denial that bugs many of us. It’s like the friend who swears he didn’t drink your last beer. You don’t care about the beer, but you just can’t stand him not admitting it. (You took my beer! Say it!! Say it!!!) By denying the obvious, so many pompous elite journalists drive us batty by acting as if we’re imagining things . . .Media polarization is both a driver -- and product -- of social polarization. The rise of Fox News should have been a wake-up call to the mainstream media. When millions of people rush to an alternative product to what you’re selling, that’s a sign of failure or obsolescence. That’s why McDonald’s changes its menus and Coca-Cola updates its product line. But rather than check itself, much of the mainstream media opted to wreck itself, doubling-down on precisely the behaviors that causes millions of Americans to reject it. The mainstream media behaves more like a class or clerisy every day. The result is more groupthink not less. When Dan Rather got that forged memo, if there had been a single journalist in the room who didn’t want the story to be true, they probably would have done their due diligence if only to get the guy to shut up about it. But everyone was bought-in to the too-good-to-check dynamic and now Dan Rather is an old man shouting at clouds on Facebook. Ideological bias is unavoidable, the trick is to use it productively, to fuel skepticism. Instead, vast swaths of the mainstream media work on the assumption that it is their job to protect, defend or rationalize liberal priorities in the culture war and there are precious few people inside these organizations to question basic assumption . --Jonah Goldberg, 6/22
God's Name
Like many ancient names, Yahweh holds great meaning. But unlike any other name, it is boldly thought best translated, "I am that I am" or "I will be who I will be." Out of the same tradition of reverence held in Jewish nomenclature, most modern translations render the name of God, "LORD" in all capitals, bringing to mind the four Hebrew consonants that denote the special name given to the people of Israel. Today, wherever the word "Lord" is found in Bible, there is a rich heritage of meaning, though possibly obscured to the point of being lost, while yet uttered. Where contemporary attitudes toward God might persuade us to render a generic and distant being or title, the word itself leaves no room for this vision, for it is actually a proper name. In this rich etymology, in a word, God is LORD. God is who God is; there is no other like the one who has given us this name.--Jill Carattini, Slice of Infinity 6/22
Political Potpourri
"Every time I see the latest economic news, I thank Hillary Clinton. Every time I see those record low unemployment numbers for blacks, Latinos & women, I thank Hillary. If she hadn't been such a horrible candidate in 2016, there's . no telling what sorry state American would be in right . now. I don't really blame Hillary too much for refusing to accept her embarrassing defeat & deciding to spend the rest of her public life posing as a professional victim of a conspiracy that never happened. In the pretend world where she lives, the Trump-hating Democrats running the House of Representatives & the Trump-hating Democrats running the mainstream liberal media want to re-investigate the Russian collusion delusion from scratch. They're still deluding themselves about bringing down Trump & they know it. They know that even if the House impeaches Trump, the Senate won't impeach him in a million ways. In other words, the Democrats know their multiple hearings are nothing but partisan TV stunts designed to constantly smear Trump & his family & discredit Attorney General William Barr before he digs up the dirt about the FBI's rogue spying operation on the 2016 Trump campaign.--Michael Reagan, Norfolk Daily News 6/20
"Supreme Court upholds cross on public land..." (Drudge 6/21)
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