CSotD: What’s Logic Got To Do With It?
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Banx offers a wait-a-minute gag. My first response is that it would indeed be good if we could use old, renewable energy in place of the power-suck that happens at data centers.
Then the wait-a-minute hit, because, obviously, if we were still running everything on hydropower, we wouldn’t be creating gigantic masses of data.
We are all prisoners here of our own devices, because not many of us would want to give up electric lights or electronic communications, or, for that matter, products of internal combustion. But I don’t remember asking for artificial intelligence, which takes huge amounts of power but doesn’t resolve a lot of inconveniences, much less solve any real problems.
There’s a power dam here on the Connecticut River, and they’re working to make the dam itself more hospitable to fish, as well as taking out some of the smaller dams and adding wood to the waters to maintain a healthier balance.
It’s possible to have clean energy and a clean river, but you have to acknowledge the issues and then do something about them.
We appear to have other priorities at the moment, most of them having to do not with controlling the rivers but with controlling the people.
The answer to his question is that I have no idea why the National Guard is doing the job of regular police, but we can assume it’s for the same reasons the feds are cutting back on restoring our rivers and are pursuing unnecessary energy demands.
It’s not logical, Kearney points out, and I’ve wondered about several departures from GOP dogma, including their long-term defense of states’ rights, which mysteriously disappeared on January 20.
I seem to remember that they had a major meltdown over jackbooted thugs when Joe Biden gave the IRS extra funding to provide more customer-service personnel and also to help audit and flag the returns of wealthy tax cheats.
They’ve since begun firing those people, but they’re directing enough funds towards ICE to make it more expensive than the US Marine Corps. Hey, jackboots cost money.
But as the marginal character in Kearney’s cartoon says, we shouldn’t expect consistency, and we shouldn’t expect a whole lot of logic, either.
For instance, Nancy Mace, a congressional rep now running for governor, is campaigning on her pride over a major infrastructure bill that is greatly benefiting the people of South Carolina.
It was a bill she voted against.
It’s not unusual to have to suggest that those who cite the Bible RTFM, but in this case, it’s not a theological issue, just a simple narrative flaw: Not only did David win the fight, but he only needed one stone.
I’m all in favor of arming Ukraine, and I admire the courage with which they’ve resisted the giant, but given that this isn’t how the story went, it’s hard to tell if Ramirez is calling for David’s ultimate victory or portraying him as weak.
Handelsman is on firmer ground with his Ukraine commentary, because he uses a familiar setting to frame a more weighty issue, the point being that the notion of rewarding Putin with Ukrainian territory makes no sense. He sets up a simple situation with which no sensible person could disagree.
It’s valid, BTW, to portray Trump as Neville Chamberlain, promising peace in our time while his fatuous trust unleashes a villain, but that was 87 years ago and, while we should all know our history, the people for whom the event truly resonates are, for the most part, gone from the scene.
However, we’ve all shared a pizza. Simplicity is a political commentator’s best friend.
Here’s a surprise, given Bok’s normal tendency to praise Dear Leader. He’s dogging Zohran Mamdani, which is to be expected, but I’m surprised to see him criticizing Trump for taking control of private businesses, a basic of Communism.
By contrast, Benson takes on Mamdani, but her attack is both misdirected and illogical.
It’s misdirected in that the City Market is both thriving and an example of private industry. No doubt she meant the municipally owned Kansas City Sun Fresh Market, which has indeed gone bankrupt. Granted, few people voting in NYC’s mayoral race would notice her failure to do basic homework about stores 1200 miles away, but it’s still sloppy and lazy.
The more crucial point is that the Sun Fresh Market was an existing store already in deep economic trouble, so she and Fox, whose guidance she’s following, assume Mamdani would choose crime-ridden sites in neighborhoods that won’t support a store.
I meant to find some publicly-run grocery stores elsewhere in the country to show how Benson and Fox were cherry-picking their example, but quickly discovered that there are several such stores up and running right there in Kansas, including the St Paul Supermarket, which has been successful for two decades.
Here’s a tip: If you don’t want to be fact-checked, check the facts yourself first.
In a similar vein, Kelley makes the point that, if there is any crime at all in a city, there can’t possibly be a decline in the crime rate, and so a military takeover is required.
Cosplay Kristi got all dressed up to act out her plan to paint miles of previously unpainted Wall to make it unpleasant to try to climb over the border fence during sunny days rather than in the cool dark of night.
Meanwhile, she got very upset with South Park for making fun of the cosmetic surgery she’s undergone, which, by some astonishing coincidence, gave her a case of Mar-A-Lago Face.
I know he’s not a liberal, so I guess she lists him as an extremist.
Hey, when she’s right, she’s right.
Walters offers a flashback for older readers who remember back in the days of the Civil Rights and Antiwar movements, when protesters drew irate charges that they were being paid, though nobody ever produced any check stubs to prove it.
There were also charges of Moscow issuing orders to the throngs in the streets, but now that Putin is Dear Leader’s pal, you don’t hear “Go back to Russia!” much anymore.
Still, the nostalgia is nice.
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