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“Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s ‘fans’ have turned on her. Experts aren’t surprised.”
I found this article tremendously enlightening …
… as to many things beside its ostensible subject. The same principles as apply to Gypsy Rose Blanchard, apply as well to Donald Trump, Trumpers, Trumpism, Fake news, Virality, Conspiracy theories and Conspiracy theorists. I hade never considered the role of neurotransmitters before.
A must-read.
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Brad Pitt, Taylor Swift, and the royals
They deserve their privacy.
I’m in love.
News as porn
Orthodoxy
White Americans are nearly as blind to their racism as ever before
An orthodoxy is a system of ideas that adherents insist one must accept without question. In other words, a set of dogmas.
Every media outlet has one. It may be implied or explicit; flexible or rigid; narrow or broad; but it’s there. It defines what ideas that media outlet will allow to be expressed. In publishing media, it determines what will and won’t get published.
An obstacle facing me in my hopes of getting published, is that I seem somehow always to run afoul of a given media outlet’s orthodoxy.
The Heritage Foundation
From this point forward, I have no confidence in The Heritage Foundation.
Lashon hara
I won’t read certain things that may appear in my news feed. Continue reading Lashon hara
Missing children
As I said in perhaps my first-ever post about missing children, “These events seem most often to occur when adults have rendered total chaos in the home.”
I may not be able to provide the conclusions to some of these stories here. There have been several reports in October ’22 of the finding of remains of adults who disappeared decades before; and the same may prove true as to some of these children.
It’s a puzzle that these are all girls, not boys.
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Salon headlines
The entry below for December 30, 2015 was the last straw, moving me to “out” this information as a post.
For some months, I have made a good faith effort to note every headline my Yahoo! News feed captured from Salon.com that touched on religion.
Salon.com holds itself forth as, in effect, the voice of progressivism.
The headlines themselves display a pronounced bias on the topic of religion. Not all, but almost all, are hostile.
Not skeptical. Not indifferent. Not equanimous.
Hostile.
I am struck that this posture cannot possibly be intellectually honest.
The Homeless Blogger 