Month: January 2016

“Why Are Americans Ignoring Trevor Noah?” …Is this a trick question?

The answer is actually fairly simple, contra Slate. In 2012 The Daily Show skewed 10% Republican, 41% Independent, 45% Democratic; or, if you prefer… 14% conservative, 42% moderate, 43% liberal.  I’m going to hence go out on a limb here and suggest that say that the Daily Show caters to a distinctly left-leading audience.  And from there it’s obvious: liberals don’t groove as much on the show because its new host Trevor Noah is a black dude.

I mean, shoot, it’s not exactly a secret that white progressives have real difficulty taking minorities seriously. Or letting them mainstream. God knows getting one to vote for a black candidate can be an exercise in frustration…

Hey, Donald Rumsfeld has a gaming app out!

I got tipped to this by an alert reader a few days ago… and only now saw the email, because it happens that way sometimes and I blame the blizzard.  Anyway: Donald Rumsfeld has a game app out: Churchill Solitaire.  It’s apparently based on a game that Winston Churchill came up with, the better to challenge his thinking. I’ll let you know how it plays once my iPod finishes its software update, assuming that people don’t inexplicably manage to get the game yanked from the Apple Store before then.  I say ‘inexplicably’ not because I don’t understand what I will charitably call their ‘reasoning;’ I say ‘inexplicably’ because you’d think that those people would have found new meaning for their lives by now…

This is a fun game that my readers can play.

The question was:

And these were my two immediate answers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc

I’m open to other opinions on this one, though.  The Zevon one in particular may simply be hardcore bittersweet nostalgia on my part; Warren Zevon was one of the defining voices of my early adulthood. I still miss him.

Expect tomorrow to be a slow news day, too.

They pretty much preemptively shut down the DC area tomorrow; schools are closed, government’s closed, I don’t even know if there’s going to be mail. Which is going to be problematical, because the second Xbox controller was supposed to show up tomorrow and the kids are getting a little stir-crazy.  To be fair: so are their parents.

To be doubly fair; so is the rest of the MD/DC/VA Axis of Snow.  We got legit hammered this weekend; two feet of no-fooling blizzard (high winds and everything) is respectable by anybody’s standards. So… slow news day. All the people who’d normally be fiddling, mangling, and just making it up are going to be sitting around in sweatpants and having their lower backs remind them that we are none of us as young as we used to be.

Tweet of the Day, You Can Go Sledding Down Capitol Hill Now! edition.

Frankly, this should have been done years… no. This should never have been forbidden in the first place. It’s our Hill, dammit.