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Easter Tradition, Slightly Irreverent

by WaterGirl|  March 31, 202412:40 pm| 99 Comments

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    1. 1.

      Baud

      March 31, 2024 at 12:47 pm

      I keep forgetting Costco is closed on Easter. Bah Humbug.

      Reply
    2. 2.

      NotMax

      March 31, 2024 at 12:47 pm

      And now a short time-out for the Ether Bunny.

      Reply
    3. 3.

      Soprano2

      March 31, 2024 at 12:48 pm

      I tried to go to a local greenhouse, and it was closed. Maybe I’ll get my plants at Menards.

      Reply
    4. 4.

      sab

      March 31, 2024 at 12:57 pm

      Easter is the biggest holiday in the Christian calendar (far bigger than Christmas) and everyone is surprised that businesses are closed.

      Reply
    5. 5.

      Baud

      March 31, 2024 at 12:58 pm

      @sab:

      It’s not a federal holiday, like Christmas. And many stores are open on Christmas.

      Reply
    6. 6.

      TBone

      March 31, 2024 at 1:04 pm

      @NotMax: I made the pickle soup.  OH MY GOODNESS it is delicious and I haven’t even added the sour cream and fresh dill yet.  I got smart and let the food processor finely chop everything except the 6 gold potatoes, which I finely diced.  I added a big, fresh leek and extra vidalia onion. To DIE for on a chilly, rainy birthday!  Thank you, mmmmmm

      Reply
    7. 7.

      WaterGirl

      March 31, 2024 at 1:05 pm

      @sab:

      Easter is the biggest holiday in the Christian calendar

      In what way?

      Reply
    8. 8.

      sab

      March 31, 2024 at 1:08 pm

      @WaterGirl: Christmas a baby was born. Easter a grown man and revolutionary was executed and came back to life to lead us. Which event is bigger?

      Reply
    9. 9.

      Tom Levenson

      March 31, 2024 at 1:09 pm

      @WaterGirl: Not a Christian here, but Easter is the celebration of the event that is at the heart of the entire faith: that Jesus was the son of God, died as human (partaking of the divine*) and was resurrected as a member of the Trinity having secured absolution for human sins and eternal life for every believer. That’s a lot more important than the happenstance of his birth.

      *I am so not getting into discussions of the true nature of the incarnate Christ, just as I won’t get within shouting distance of the filioque dispute

      ETA: What sab says.

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    10. 10.

      sab

      March 31, 2024 at 1:09 pm

      @Baud: Christian calendar not banking calendar.

      Reply
    11. 11.

      Martin

      March 31, 2024 at 1:12 pm

      @WaterGirl: Today is the day that Christ resurrects as her true self.

      Reply
    12. 12.

      Baud

      March 31, 2024 at 1:14 pm

      @sab:

      We expect stores to follow the banking calendar.

      Reply
    13. 13.

      NotMax

      March 31, 2024 at 1:14 pm

      @TBone

      Huzzah!

      Birthday? Have a happy!

      Reply
    14. 14.

      sab

      March 31, 2024 at 1:14 pm

      @Baud: Sometimes their employees refuse.

      Reply
    15. 15.

      Baud

      March 31, 2024 at 1:15 pm

      Easter is clearly the holiest holiday, but I wouldn’t say it was the biggest.

      Reply
    16. 16.

      Baud

      March 31, 2024 at 1:15 pm

      @sab:

      Probably what happened here. Costco workers have a good union.

      Reply
    17. 17.

      sab

      March 31, 2024 at 1:17 pm

      @Tom Levenson: Wow. That is a really good summation. Thank you.

      Reply
    18. 18.

      WaterGirl

      March 31, 2024 at 1:17 pm

      @Baud: Second that.

      Reply
    19. 19.

      Another Scott

      March 31, 2024 at 1:19 pm

      @NotMax: Saw that.  🤪

      A few days ago I saw a comic of people rolling away the stone to reveal a giant chocolate rabbit.  🙊

      I haven’t been able to find it again, of course.

      Happy Easter, everyone.

      Cheers,
      Scott.

      Reply
    20. 20.

      Sister Golden Bear

      March 31, 2024 at 1:20 pm

      To all the reactionary “Christians” screeching about how Transgender Day or Visibility is blaspheming Easter this year, there’s something entirely apropos about a day celebrating resurrection and salvation intersecting with a day about trans people celebrating being able to be their true selves.

      Also for the record, TDOV, has always been March 31. And it’s worth a reminder that TDOV was created 16 years ago because up until that time the only annual “trans day” was Transgender Day of Remembrance, in which we memorialize those killed in trans hate crimes.

      While It is altogether fitting and proper that we should remember our dead, we also need to celebrate our living — especially when Republican reactionaries are trying to eradicate us from public life.

      Reply
    21. 21.

      glc

      March 31, 2024 at 1:21 pm

      Copy edit, title: Irreverent (or, alternatively, irrelevant)

      And not entirely irrelevant, but definitely irreverent: John Eastman is a modern Jesus. betrayed and unjustly condemned.

      Reply
    22. 22.

      sab

      March 31, 2024 at 1:22 pm

      @Baud: Holy day and holiday. Get it?

      Reply
    23. 23.

      Baud

      March 31, 2024 at 1:23 pm

      @sab:

      Pretty sure it comes from the Indian holiday of Holi.

      Reply
    24. 24.

      sab

      March 31, 2024 at 1:24 pm

      @Another Scott: We want to see that.

      Reply
    25. 25.

      WaterGirl

      March 31, 2024 at 1:26 pm

      Speaking of irreverence, courtesy of Subaru Diane.

      Easter Tradition, Slightly Irreverent

      Reply
    26. 26.

      Baud

      March 31, 2024 at 1:26 pm

      According to Reddit, next year, Easter will be on 4/20.

      Reply
    27. 27.

      trollhattan

      March 31, 2024 at 1:27 pm

      @Baud:
      The Neil Diamond song?​

      Reply
    28. 28.

      pluky

      March 31, 2024 at 1:28 pm

      @Tom Levenson: ὁμοούσιον or ὁμοιούσιον? To filioque or not? I don’t think anyone cares these days, or at least not enough to threaten anathema.

      Reply
    29. 29.

      sab

      March 31, 2024 at 1:28 pm

      @WaterGirl: LOL excellent!

      Reply
    30. 30.

      Baud

      March 31, 2024 at 1:29 pm

      @Sister Golden Bear:

      Via reddit, George Takei

      Reply
    31. 31.

      sab

      March 31, 2024 at 1:31 pm

      @WaterGirl: Back in my distant youth my junior year abroad in England they had white chocolate Jesus babies. Seriously. We debated how one would eat them.

      Both those rabbits should have had their heads bitten off.

      Reply
    32. 32.

      TBone

      March 31, 2024 at 1:32 pm

      @NotMax: 💜 hubby’s day today and he had to remind me 🤣😭 thanks for the chef bday card. The soup might make him stop razzing me!  The sour cream and dill gild the lily!

      Reply
    33. 33.

      scav

      March 31, 2024 at 1:32 pm

      Has Tennessee just (or is just about to) outlawed spray bottles?
      An attack of the vapours: Tennessee bill endorses chemtrails conspiracy theory

      Legislation banning the “intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances” swept through the Republican-dominated senate, and will now be considered by the Republican-dominated house, before then being weighed by Tennessee’s Republican governor. There is also a movement to pass a similar law in Pennsylvania.

      Reply
    34. 34.

      Baud

      March 31, 2024 at 1:34 pm

      @scav:

      Legislation banning the “intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances”

       
      Worse. They have outlawed farting.

      Reply
    35. 35.

      WaterGirl

      March 31, 2024 at 1:37 pm

      @sab: But then the bunnies couldn’t have a conversation. :-)

      Reply
    36. 36.

      sab

      March 31, 2024 at 1:38 pm

      @WaterGirl: Both those bunnies are in pain.

      Reply
    37. 37.

      sab

      March 31, 2024 at 1:41 pm

      @Baud: Of course it does, because we live in diversity tolerant America.

      Reply
    38. 38.

      Sister Golden Bear

      March 31, 2024 at 1:41 pm

      @Baud: George nailed it.

      Reply
    39. 39.

      Sister Golden Bear

      March 31, 2024 at 1:42 pm

      @scav: I’m sure farmers are gonna love it when crop dusting is banned.

      Reply
    40. 40.

      WaterGirl

      March 31, 2024 at 1:43 pm

      Speaking of irreverence, no, make that blasphemy:

      There it is https://t.co/47ECilxpX4 pic.twitter.com/fNScBEZw1G

      — Brian Guest (@brguest20) March 30, 2024

      Reply
    41. 41.

      TBone

      March 31, 2024 at 1:44 pm

      @WaterGirl: oh shit

      he really did that

      Let’s nail him to a cross and see if that fucker gets back up after 3 days

      Reply
    42. 42.

      Fake Irishman

      March 31, 2024 at 1:45 pm

      @scav:

      Heck with spray bottles, based on that text, those clowns just outlawed breathing, a lot of medical care, driving and most industrial and agricultural operations.

      On the bright side, they can shut down every coal plant in the state. (Solar is OK, wind power is probably fine too.)

      Reply
    43. 43.

      Spanky

      March 31, 2024 at 1:45 pm

      Irreverent? How could you be irreverent on the day celebrating when Jesus rose from the dead, rolled back the rock that sealed his tomb,  and saw his shadow, thus ensuring that spring had arrived.

      Reply
    44. 44.

      sab

      March 31, 2024 at 1:45 pm

      @sab: I completely forgot about those New Orleans cakes with the tiny plastic Jesus inside. We have one sitting in a toy car. We decided not to collect more.

      Reply
    45. 45.

      WaterGirl

      March 31, 2024 at 1:46 pm

      @WaterGirl: This man is mentally ill, and his attorneys are enabling the destruction be brings.

      Can we get “Trump is mentally ill” to be the first thing google suggests when someone types “trump” into the search box?

      Reply
    46. 46.

      TBone

      March 31, 2024 at 1:47 pm

      @Spanky:  😎

      Reply
    47. 47.

      Spanky

      March 31, 2024 at 1:48 pm

      @Baud: I believe you are absolutely correct, and I hope someone points that out. By example.

      Reply
    48. 48.

      wjca

      March 31, 2024 at 1:49 pm

      It wouldn’t be Easter without remembering a riddle from my childhood:

      • Who goes hippity-hop thru the mud?
      • The Easter pig!

      We were just so solemn and devout in the 50s, before Those People wrecked everything….

      P.S. And nobody was moved to complain about “Youth today…” over it either.

      Reply
    49. 49.

      sab

      March 31, 2024 at 1:50 pm

      @Spanky: Good reason not to live there. Can you imagine being called for jury duty?

      Reply
    50. 50.

      CliosFanBoy

      March 31, 2024 at 1:51 pm

      @TBone:

       
      On day #3, not after three days. I apologize for being pedantic, but that point always irritated me in some irrational way.

      Reply
    51. 51.

      sab

      March 31, 2024 at 1:52 pm

      @wjca: Just told that to my husband and now he cannot stop laughing.

      Reply
    52. 52.

      wjca

      March 31, 2024 at 1:54 pm

      @scav:

      The part that should be highlighted

      Legislation banning the “intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances” swept through the Republican-dominated senate, and will now be considered by the Republican-dominated house, before then being weighed by Tennessee’s Republican governor. There is also a movement to pass a similar law in Pennsylvania.

      If you think about it, not that they would, this bans exhaling.  Let’s hope the legislators voting for it are all promptly arrested for that.  Well, unless they choose to hold their breath until they turn (shudder!) blue.

      EDT Fake Irishman got there first

      Reply
    53. 53.

      scav

      March 31, 2024 at 1:57 pm

      It also amuses me that those christians thrown to the lions were there basically because they didn’t follow the state religion, and thus endangered the empire by not honoring the national gods.  Their pious descendants are now baying for their sort to be eaten by lions.

       

      and TN probably figures it’s got all its problems licked.  from the bottom of the above

      Should the chemtrails legislation pass in the Tennessee house – intriguingly, members are due to consider it on 1 April – then Bill Lee, the state’s Republican governor, will have the final say as to whether it passes into law.
      That would be a victory for Monty Fritts, a legislator who has championed the bill in the house, in what is gearing up to be a big month for the Republican.
      Fritts introduced a resolution earlier this year calling for Tennesseeans to “join in a 30-day season of prayer and intermittent fasting” in July “to seek God’s hand of mercy healing on Tennessee”.
      That motion passed the house on 5 March, and could be adopted around the same time as the chemtrails legislation.

      Reply
    54. 54.

      wjca

      March 31, 2024 at 2:00 pm

      @sab: A day when I can make someone smile is a good day.  Someone laughing is a plus.  :-)

      Reply
    55. 55.

      TBone

      March 31, 2024 at 2:02 pm

      @scav: holy cow

      the full monty

      Reply
    56. 56.

      sab

      March 31, 2024 at 2:02 pm

      @wjca: :)

      Reply
    57. 57.

      trollhattan

      March 31, 2024 at 2:03 pm

      @WaterGirl: ​
      Has anyone explained the act of crucifixion to Donald Trump? Because if he’s game, I’m game. “We’re gonna need bigger nails.”

      Reply
    58. 58.

      sab

      March 31, 2024 at 2:08 pm

      @scav: Kind of like a misguided Ramadan in the wrong month,

      Reply
    59. 59.

      WaterGirl

      March 31, 2024 at 2:09 pm

      @trollhattan: Like everything else, Donnie wants the credit without doing the work.

      Reply
    60. 60.

      Baud

      March 31, 2024 at 2:13 pm

      @WaterGirl:

      Next stop, Guyana.

      Reply
    61. 61.

      Another Scott

      March 31, 2024 at 2:15 pm

      @sab: Finally found it again – via Dgar on Mastodon.

      Behold!

      🤪

      Cheers,
      Scott.

      Reply
    62. 62.

      Tom Levenson

      March 31, 2024 at 2:32 pm

      @pluky: Well, there is still that pesky Rome v. Constantinople schism…

      (And yeah, I know that it has faded as a source of contention between Catholic and Orthodox.)

      Reply
    63. 63.

      Peke Daddy

      March 31, 2024 at 2:33 pm

      @wjca: Nah, they will just selectively enforce the law against enemies of the state. You know, the usual suspects.

      Reply
    64. 64.

      JWR

      March 31, 2024 at 2:36 pm

      Maybe someone should show this to the protesters at Biden events. Not to shut them down, but here right in front of them is why they can NOT support Trump, either by not voting, not voting for Biden, or even worse, by voting for the Orange Menace. From NBC

      Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., said this week that the conflict in Gaza should be over quickly “like Nagasaki and Hiroshima,” and the United States should refrain from sending any humanitarian aid to the besieged enclave as Israel’s war with Hamas continues.

      “We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid,” Walberg said at a town hall meeting on Monday in Dundee, Michigan, according to a video that circulated on social media.

      “It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick,” he continued, referring to the Japanese cities on which the U.S. dropped atomic bombs during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of people died.

      @WaterGirl: Lol thx!

      Reply
    65. 65.

      JWR

      March 31, 2024 at 2:40 pm

      @WaterGirl:

      Can we get “Trump is mentally ill” to be the first thing google suggests when someone types “trump” into the search box?

      A Google Bomb! I’m game! ;)

      Reply
    66. 66.

      Fair Economist

      March 31, 2024 at 2:41 pm

      @scav:Legislation banning the “intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances”

      No more fracking. Excellent.

      Reply
    67. 67.

      Martin

      March 31, 2024 at 2:41 pm

      @trollhattan: Nah – small hands, small nails.

      Reply
    68. 68.

      pat

      March 31, 2024 at 2:45 pm

      @Another Scott:

      I LOLd!!!!

       

      They roll back the stone and there is a giant chocolate rabbit in the cave.  Hehehehehhhhhh

      Reply
    69. 69.

      divF

      March 31, 2024 at 3:01 pm

      @Tom Levenson: You probably won’t want to talk about homoousios vs homoiousios, either

      ETA: Pluky @28 got there first, in Greek no less.

      Reply
    70. 70.

      zhena gogolia

      March 31, 2024 at 3:01 pm

      @Cacti: TRUMP WILL STOP ALL AID TO ISRAEL ON DAY ONE OF HIS REGIME

      Reply
    71. 71.

      trollhattan

      March 31, 2024 at 3:06 pm

      @zhena gogolia: Jared assures all it’s the only way.

      Reply
    72. 72.

      Baud

      March 31, 2024 at 3:09 pm

      Journalists have been told to stop stealing souvenirs from US President Joe Biden’s official aircraft.

      Reply
    73. 73.

      lowtechcyclist

      March 31, 2024 at 3:09 pm

      @JWR:

      I bet that fucker styles himself ‘pro-life.’

      There are eight billion people in this world, and there are maybe a million abortions per year in the U.S.  I keep saying that when evangelicals are as pro-life with respect to the eight billion as the average agnostic liberal is, I’ll take their concern for embryos and fetuses seriously.  But not until.

      Reply
    74. 74.

      trollhattan

      March 31, 2024 at 3:11 pm

      Think our newsmedia have been harsh to Biden before? Just wait until they get this memo.

      Journalists have been told to stop stealing souvenirs from US President Joe Biden’s official aircraft.

      An inventory check on Air Force One after Mr Biden’s visit to the US west coast in February found several items were missing from its press section. Branded pillowcases, glasses and gold-rimmed plates are among the items that have allegedly vanished from the jet.

      The White House Correspondents’ Association warned that taking items from the plane was forbidden.

      Last month, the association sent an email to reporters to say that such behaviour reflected poorly on the press pool – the group of journalists who travel with the president – and must stop. Journalists are sometimes given small packages of M&Ms chocolates decorated with the presidential seal as a souvenir.

      But taking items with an Air Force One logo – including cutlery and towels – has been commonplace for years, reports claim. Misha Komadovsky, White House Correspondent from the Voice of America, has gathered a “subtle” collection of items from his trips on the president’s plane.

      “I didn’t embarrass anyone or commit any wrongdoing to put this collection together,” he told BBC News, as he held up a paper cup with the Air Force One logo he “simply forgot to throw away”.

      Mr Komadovsky also has a box of the presidential M&Ms with Mr Biden’s signature. “Spoiler alert. They are regular M&Ms in a nice box,” he said.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68702982

      Reply
    75. 75.

      trollhattan

      March 31, 2024 at 3:12 pm

      @Baud: Jinx!

      Reply
    76. 76.

      HinTN

      March 31, 2024 at 3:12 pm

      @Peke Daddy: But we can report them and report them and report them. “Sheriff, Senator X’s car is dispersing chemicals and that’s against the law.”

      Reply
    77. 77.

      WaterGirl

      March 31, 2024 at 3:16 pm

      @Cacti: Since you are not responding to email messages from Cole, and you are no longer responding to mine, I want to let you know that your comments will no longer show up on Balloon Juice until you have had a conversation with John Cole.

      It’s John’s blog; show some respect.

      You have not been banned from Balloon Juice, but if you want anyone to see your comments, you need to communicate with Cole.

      Reply
    78. 78.

      MagdaInBlack

      March 31, 2024 at 3:18 pm

      @Sister Golden Bear: Yesterday when this came up I was thinking inarticulately about how Easter goes well with renewal, rebirth, and transformation, so I am glad we are thinking along the same lines.

      Reply
    79. 79.

      lowtechcyclist

      March 31, 2024 at 3:21 pm

      @lowtechcyclist:

      And of course he is:

      “It’s encouraging to see the sanctity of life bring together hundreds of thousands of Americans from across the country to march on Washington year after year. Every life is a precious gift and far too many innocent lives have been robbed of the chance to live a full and successful life. No right given to us is as foundational as the right to life.”

      Except if the lives are of people he doesn’t like. Then bomb them into oblivion.

      Reply
    80. 80.

      Baud

      March 31, 2024 at 3:25 pm

      @trollhattan:

      I bet it’s Welker.

      Reply
    81. 81.

      JWR

      March 31, 2024 at 3:31 pm

      @WaterGirl: So that’s why my reply to Cacti sent me instead to the “you’re not allowed to post anything” page?

      ETA here’s my reply to Cacti: Nope. Nothing about it to make anybody feel better. But give the keys to Trump and we’re looking at a Final Solution aimed at the Palestinians.

      Reply
    82. 82.

      zhena gogolia

      March 31, 2024 at 3:44 pm

      @JWR: This seems to be too hard for people to process mentally, for reasons that escape me.

      Reply
    83. 83.

      Matt McIrvin

      March 31, 2024 at 3:50 pm

      @zhena gogolia: It’s like I’ve always said about third-party voters: there’s a category of voter who simply does not regard strategic voting to get the best outcome as the right way to do it. They think of that, in fact, as something like cheating or telling a lie.

      They’ve been told that voting is their voice, an expression of principles, so if a candidate does not embody their principles they MUST reject that candidate, though the world burn. And they regard this as a moral imperative.

      Reply
    84. 84.

      WaterGirl

      March 31, 2024 at 3:55 pm

      @JWR: I guess that would make sense if you started your reply while the comment was still visible, but by the time you pressed POST COMMENT, the comment was gone.

      Reply
    85. 85.

      JCJ

      March 31, 2024 at 3:56 pm

      @Spanky: I like the joke combined with Groundhog Day:

      Three guys die in a car crash.  They get to heaven and St Peter says, “Before you get into heaven you have to answer a question.  What is Easter?”

      The first one says – That is on the day you were born, you have a cake and get presents.   He did not get in.

      The second one says – that is in winter, you decorate a tree, and a guy in a red suit brings you presents.  He did not get in.

      The third guy says – that is when Jesus was crucified, buried, and on the third day he rose.  He looked around and saw his shadow and went back in the grave and there were six more weeks of winter.

      Reply
    86. 86.

      zhena gogolia

      March 31, 2024 at 4:17 pm

      @Matt McIrvin: Yes, it’s very tiring.

      Reply
    87. 87.

      Another Scott

      March 31, 2024 at 4:18 pm

      I see that Sinner is winning the Miami tennis final at the moment.  Today.  On Easter.

      Hmm…

      Cheers,
      Scott.

      Reply
    88. 88.

      NotMax

      March 31, 2024 at 4:55 pm

      @Another Scott

      Siinner:15, Jesus: Love.
      //

      Reply
    89. 89.

      WaterGirl

      March 31, 2024 at 5:21 pm

      @NotMax: Good one, NotMax!

      Reply
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      UncleEbeneezer

      March 31, 2024 at 5:29 pm

      @Another Scott: And yesterday Danielle Collins won it on the WTA side.  A pretty big deal as it was her biggest tournament win of her career and she is retiring at the end of this one.  She’s also faced some major health and injury problems over the past year.  Beating Rybakina (last year’s Wimbledon champ) on a fast court that very much suits Rybakina’s style of play, is a pretty amazing achievement.

      Reply
    91. 91.

      SomeRandomGuy

      March 31, 2024 at 5:40 pm

      If Easter is so all-fired fucking important to these “Christians,” then why didn’t they move it *away* from the National Transgender Day of Visibility or whatever? I mean, if they’re going to be all offended, *they* are the ones who decide when Easter happens! They should have moved their mobile holiday to one that wasn’t already a set-date. They’ve had some 1990 years to prepare for this shit, don’t let Transgender folks and allies take the rap.

      Reply
    92. 92.

      Dan B

      March 31, 2024 at 6:05 pm

      @SomeRandomGuy: And next year Easter is on Hitler’s birthday.  Will there be more whining?

      Reply
    93. 93.

      Another Scott

      March 31, 2024 at 6:29 pm

      @Dan B:

      Will there be more whining?

      Magic 8 Ball says “Yes”.

      Teri Kanefield short thread on Mastodon.social:

      Teri Kanefield
      @[email protected]

      A word about all the people I’ve pissed off with this week’s blog post:

      https://mastodon.social/@Teri_Kanefield/112187081021199665

      (When I woke up this morning, I removed about 25 comments !!)

      I wonder if I feel free to write a blog post that I know will anger people because I don’t monetize.

      I have ads, but it pays a tiny fraction of the cost of maintaining a website and using MailChimp. People might be surprised at how much my blogging venture costs.

      A few years ago Substack tried to recruit me . . .

      1/

      . . . they wanted me to use their site instead of my blog.

      The recruiter asked for a video conference and was shocked when I told her that I don’t want to monetize.

      Several people (including a few friends privately) that the MSNBC outrage has gotten worse.

      I offered this theory: During the Trump era these networks thrived because there was an easy target for outrage.

      Since then, they’ve had to rely on baseless rage-inducing speculation.

      2/

      I think another part is that individuals can monetize so easily.

      I remember when I discovered Twitter analytics: It showed me that when I said something disparaging about Trump, my engagement went up.

      I was appalled and never looked at Twitter Analytics again.

      So many factors in this new world of media encourage posts that outrage people or confirm their biases.

      3/

      I just wrote a book on Disinformation and included the election lies, so I don’t say this lightly, but both of these tear at the fabric of a democracy:

      (1) disinformation and misinformation
      (2) the kind of outrage and fury that exacerbates polarization.

      Unfortunately, both of those are profit driven.

      maybe that should be next week’s blog posts and I take off the rest of the week 😉

      I spent an absurd amount of time writing this week’s post because I knew I was going against the current.

      4/

      Teri is a wise woman.

      Follow the money.

      Cheers,
      Scott.

      Reply
    94. 94.

      Miss Bianca

      March 31, 2024 at 7:49 pm

      @WaterGirl: I always love that one!

      Reply
    95. 95.

      Matt McIrvin

      March 31, 2024 at 9:18 pm

      @Another Scott: She’s caught so much crap for even suggesting that the media outlets that cater to liberals are doing this kind of thing. Basically got people accusing her of trying to help Trump, peddling false balance etc.

      Reply
    96. 96.

      Ironcity

      March 31, 2024 at 9:28 pm

      Sport didn’t see here is eventing.  Equestrian trifecta of dressage, stsdium jumping and cross country.   Unique things are totally level playi g field male female,no ladies tees, and a mix of the professionals and amatuers at whatever level of competition.   I’ve never ridden a horse in my life, but I’ve stewarded everyplace, jump judged in cross country and timed the jumping.  Dont know another sport where international level and local kids compete on the same discipline and the pros are generally really great with the kids.  Would be like a little league game with guys from the majors mixed with the local kids and some of the umps volunteers.    Youngest is looking at getting out and moving on after a vouple cincussions and a broken shoulder. 3kms cross country in 4 minutes over timber, brush and ditches with some water thrown in  is a real rush I hear.

      Reply
    97. 97.

      yellowdog

      April 1, 2024 at 12:24 am

      @trollhattan: Times like this are when I wish we had a ‘Like’ button.

      Reply
    98. 98.

      Manyakitty

      April 1, 2024 at 11:07 am

      @TBone: dead thread and all, but I’d pay good money to watch that

      Reply
    99. 99.

      Nelson

      April 1, 2024 at 3:19 pm

      @CliosFanBoy: Thanks for clearing that up; I’ve always had concerns about the basic lack of math competency.

      Reply

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