Links for Friday, September 1
A varied collection, from Mitch McConnell's freeze to the mighty Pac-12's fall.
He just stood there silently — a gentle, childlike smile flickering across his face, probably for the first time since the Truman administration.
A varied collection of articles for you today, from two takes on McConnell’s frozen mug, to digital shittification, to how the proud Pac-12 became the Pac-4, and more. Also, a musical treat times two. Enjoy.
Links
• Mitch McConnell’s freeze (Breaking Points)
Two ways of looking at a frozen bird. First, from Krystal and Saagar on Breaking Points:
Saagar Enjeti: “It seems like elder abuse.”
Krystal Ball: “Number one … that lady there, whoever she is, who no one voted for or elected, is probably really running the show. … Number two, they’re not panicked at all, which tells you, this happens all the time.”
• Mitch McConnell's Brief Flash Of Humanity (Caitlin Johnstone)
A second way view of McConnell’s frozen face. This is the innocent child he used to be, before he decided on evil.
He just stood there silently — a gentle, childlike smile flickering across his face, probably for the first time since the Truman administration.
In that moment, while Mitch McConnell’s dying brain struggled and failed to make sense of its present reality, all the dourness was gone from his face. All the downward gravitational pull from a lifetime in the DC swamp. All the seriousness. All the scheming. All the warmongering, tyranny and abusiveness.
In that moment of amnesiac innocence, you’d never be able to tell from looking at Mitch McConnell how many people he’s helped kill. How much suffering he’s helped cause. How much health and thriving he’s frozen out of humanity in his joyless facilitation of corporate dystopia.
All you’d see is a man. A cute, harmless, befuddled old man. All the dark, dense, contracted energy gone from his form in a sweet tender moment of intimate indivisibility.
A wonderful insight.
File under “They’re cute when they sleep. Don’t wake them.”