This morning.
TwinPeaksGiant writes:
So wet in Dublin that this woman dressed her kids in bin bags
Yearly Archives: 2016
Fake News Alert – a Chrome extension that flags sites known for spreading ‘fake news’.
Eh.
Get it here.
First review?
“This should be re-named as the Liberal Media Bubble Defender, the only thing the creator did was add some right leaning websites to a list, there is no algorithm or method, it’s a simple bias list.”
Fight!
Love Hate
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An ongoing project (started by artist Levee) at an underpass connecting the 1 train to the L at 14th street and 6th Avenue in New York city.
Subway Therapy, where people are invited to add their own messages of positivity and hope, actually predates the Trump election/ alt-rightpocalypse but has become especially relevant since.
We Cut Corners – video for new single Of Whatever
01. Indie/alt/folk duo We Cut Corners have been busy this year, putting the finishing touches on third album The Cadences of Others.
02. Hefty shoes to fill: previous long-players Today I Realised I Could Go Home Backwards and Think Nothing were both Choice Prize nominees.
03. Streaming above is the video for Of Whatever, directed by Jon Hozier-Byrne. Evoking the sense of panic that 2016 has neatly been enveloped by, it features model Megan O’Malley sleeping through life/drowning in a shallow bed. Fun for the whole family.
04. Catch them tomorrow night in the Roisín Dubh in Galway, and on Saturday night in the Button Factory in Dubland.
Verdict: A lush, densely-arranged take on the band at their more usually considered bodes for a big-sounding LP.
The second series of The Local Eye starts on RTÉ One following the fortunes of three new local newspapers – The Donegal Post, The Nenagh Guardian and Mrs Brown’s favourite paper, The Northside People.
Gareth Naughten writes:
The Northside People has been mocking up papers for the hugely popular Mrs Brown’s Boys since 2011 Tonight fans will get a unique insight into how those headlines are made – and how they sometimes get the Northside People’s group editor Tony McCullagh into strife!
The Local Eye airs at 7pm on RTÉ One
There’s the public service in Japan – taking a gaping five lane-wide sinkhole in a metropolitan area and fixing it in less than a week.
Above is a timelapse video of the entire engineering feat, capturing the around-the-clock work undertaken.
#sneachta!!!! pic.twitter.com/TcTjh2eYj2
— Con Kennedy (@ConKennedy) November 17, 2016
Snowing in Dublin! #snow #winteriscoming pic.twitter.com/frBHFNmfUu
— Matea Stiglic (@EveryStepAStory) November 17, 2016
This morning.
Yay.
A poem.
By Geoff Finan, who writes:
A short that Mark Doyle made for a poem of mine called Notes On A Canal. Without being biased I think it’s the greatest thing ever written and shot….
From top: Anti-Trump protests in New York, November 12; Dan Boyle
Liberal smugness has been quite content to allow previously inactive portions of the electorate to wallow in their indifference.
Dan Boyle writer:
Political correctness is in the firing line. Its existence threatened by an unlikely coalition of preciousness and prejudice. Those of the lofty left have weakened the tolerance of needing to prevent the use of any language of hate, by zeroing in on what often have been the most petty examples of such speech.
The rabid right exaggerates that the right of free speech itself has been compromised by PC practice and doctrine, when what they really are being denied is the right to express prejudice.
PC is a convenient crutch for either the left or right. By focussing on it we are ignoring the far more serious trends that have created the shifting political sands of today.
The current shift, which we need to recognise is quite a narrow shift, is based on seeds sowed forty years ago by followers of Ronald Reagan in the US, and Margaret Thatcher in Britain.
This nexus promoted the creed that individualism rather than the common good should inform policy making. For liberals the State exists to meet unmet social needs, needs that become exacerbated in a totally unregulated society.
The real failure of liberalism has been the smug and patronising assumption, that enough of the electorate would always support the common good above individualism.
We are led to believe that this shift has come about because of the participation of those who usually chose not to vote. Those left behind, those who had come to believe that voting changed little.
This has been only partially true.
The political advance of individualism has been led by those who, on the whole, have been doing very well, thank you very much. Their motivation has been to protect their entitlement from uppity others intent on (as they perceive) spoiling their way of life.
These needed to add to their columns by attracting enough of the deactivated votes of the discontented/disconnected to make a difference. Again they have been able to do so by liberal smugness, that has been quite content to allow previously inactive portions of the electorate to wallow in their indifference.
This smugness has left unchallenged the alt. right narrative that has played so strongly to the ingrained prejudices of the individualists and their convenient compatriots from the neglected reaches of society.
This is the template that has been used just as much for Trump as it had been for Brexit, and may yet do in a number of European theatres in 2017.
For liberals to win back the narrative there has to be less head in the air, less Mr. Nice Guy. The extremes of politics, both right and left, have been well prepared to lie to secure their narratives.
Liberals seem to be more prepared to deceive themselves.
Dan Boyle is a former Green Party TD and Senator. Follow Dan on Twitter: @sendboyle
Top pic: Getty