Lamar Alexander, back when we were all young.
I’m thinking about changing the emphasis of this blog, at least for a time. As I’ve told you, I’m just not interested much in politics now that the campaign is over. But I know that’s me, and the experiences I’ve recently been through, and I expect the effect will wear off.
So I’m going to be blogging more about nonpolitical stuff. As you can see from today’s posts so far. But y’all may still want a place to come and talk politics. So I’ll keep including such in my Virtual Front Pages and Open Threads, so that even if I have nothing to say about it, y’all can talk amongst yourselves. So here goes…
- Stocks Fall Sharply as Investors Fret Over Growth Outlook (WSJ) — See? I like y’all so much, I’ll even include some financial news, which interests me even less than politics. You can thank me later.
- Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans on Social Media (NYT) — Among other groups. There’s quite a trove of intel coming out now about the overall effort.
- Sen. Lamar Alexander announces he won’t seek another term in 2020 (WashPost) — This is very sad news. Lamar has always been one of the best. And I don’t just say that because he’s the first candidate for statewide office I ever covered (when he was running for governor, in 1978).
- Amazon faces boycott ahead of holidays as public discontent grows (The Guardian) — I have to wonder just how effective this can be, since this is the first I’ve heard of it — and it’s in a Brit publication, not anything in this country.
- Jesuit order names priests ‘credibly accused’ of sexually abusing children since the 1950s (WP) — The horrorshow continues. A similar report is due from our own diocese soon.
- Deer poacher sentenced to watch Bambi in prison (BBC) — Weird news out of America, via Britain.
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To those whining about the stock market and Trump… when has the market ever been a never ending upward climb. The market is about 4 years overdue for a correction… and it’s likely going to be a big one because everything right now is grossly overvalued.
Who’s whining — about anything?
And surely you don’t think what’s happening has something to do with Trump. Nor, of course, would you think the market doing well before Trump had anything to do with him.
The market has been on a long climb since the collapse in 2008. And yes, it’s probably a bit overdue for a correction. I’m most certainly not an expert, but that’s the impression I have…