The campaign of sending crude homemade bombs to various Democrats and liberal icons reached Delaware today when authorities intercepted a suspicious package addressed to Joe Biden (as is typical in Delaware, Biden’s mail was a day late). But conservatives have not been fooled. They know it’s a false-flag operation by Democrats, and you know how? Nancy Pelosi has not received one. The second-most-hated Democratic woman in the country would be at the top of the list if a real conservative was involved, so it can’t be a conservative, ipso facto, q.e.d.
The Brett Kavanaugh fight brought criticism of toxic masculinity into the mainstream, but the frat-bro culture he represents won’t disappear without a fight. Former sportswriter Robert Lipsyte traces this behavior to the power of the pack, and it starts, he maintains, with sports. In his view, sports don’t develop character as much as they develop an us-vs.-them mentality.
What links the financial collapse of ’08 with global warming? When we bailed out the big banks, they used that money to invest heavily in fracking, reversing years of decline in the fossil fuel industry. The lower costs fracking brought set back years of progress on the climate front.
The pointless pile-on of the week is happening over at NBC News, where Fox refugee Megyn Kelly, building on her history of clueless whiteness (“Santa Claus is white”), wondered earlier this week why blackface costumes weren’t OK, even on Halloween. Given her history this should have raised no eyebrows at all, but her NBC tenure has been a disaster from the beginning and this apparently is giving NBC a chance to pull the plug on her show for reasons that look a little less like a network admitting a $69 million mistake.