The Books of Bokonon

Hilarity ensued. The scene where a gentleman who asked Trump about the January 6th insurrection was priceless. Like Desi Lydic, I know that look. I got that same look from my dad when I tried something stupid. My now adult kids say that is the look I give them whenever I am just not buying what they tell me. Turns out nonverbal behavior can tell us a lot. We also are reminded of a valuable life lesson: in politics, we use the term "lion's den" figuratively and not literally. That might be important.

Steven Beschloss has a much-needed post titled How Has Fox News Infected Your World? It's worth your time. I most likely saw part of a segment of Fox News for the first time as a grad student in the late 1990s. I tended to flip through the cable channels to see what was on, and there it was. I recall the channel's primary slogans of the time: "Fair and Balanced" and "We Report. You Decide." The thing was that what I experienced seemed no different from what I'd hear when I'd go through radio channels and catch various talk shows. There was a lot of yelling, a lot of vitriol about whatever the current outrage was, but nothing particularly constructive.  I say this as someone who has historically tried to understand events from different media outlets, including ones with editorial slants that might differ from my own perspective. The Sunday morning talk shows on the legacy media channels were quite useful for bringing in guests with relevant expertis...