The media has a thankless job for which we give them endless grief, almost all of it deserved. No, it’s not just the bias. Sometimes it’s the stupid stuff like this.

Hampton Beach is holding another Go Topless Day on August 26th. The picture leading the story has two women and a man in the foreground with the caption, “Women were supported by men around the shoreline of Hampton Beach on during Go Topless Day 2016.”

You nailed it. Men were at the beach “supporting women” who were topless.

I’m no expert, but I’m going to predict similar support again this year. I’m also predicting a surge in the sale of sunglasses.

The second goof up comes with a strong language warning. Something the editors at the Union Leader should heed because it is their screw up.

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“Mr. President, do you want the support of these white nationalists groups that say that they support you? Mr. President? Have you denounced strongly enough?”

– Female report at Presser, Meet the Press 0:07

It takes at least two sides to create a conflict. Not one, two.  Watching the Sunday shows you might believe that only one side was in Charlotteville, VA this past weekend.  The reporting concentrated on the KKK as a whole and neo-Nazis from whatever groups they happened to belong.  Just one side.

On This Week with Georgie George Stephanopoulos, there was not one mention of AntiFA or as you can see with the flags the Industrial Workers of the World group; one of a number of Socialist groups from the Left that ALWAYS seem to have a presence when violence is around.  Yet, he and his reporters and panel member just called them “counter protesters.” I guess Georgie forgot all about the Berkeley riots, the Oakland riots, and the Portland riots, eh?

Whitewash much?

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SHOT: (WMUR) former US Senator Gordon Humphrey (then R-NH)

“I think the man, frankly, suffers from mental illness.  I think he is unfit to be President”

Humphrey is calling for the president to be declared mentally incapacitated by a panel of doctors and stripped of his executive powers under the 25th Amendment. “I think the man, frankly, suffers from mental illness,” Humphrey said. “I think he is unfit to be president.” The former Republican senator fears Trump is putting the U.S. on a course toward nuclear war with North Korea. “This man is dangerous to our safety. He could cause the deaths of millions by his recklessness and his insane conduct,” Humphrey said.

CHASER: Charlie Martin:

Donald J Trump is President. Really. Won it fair and square, he was inaugurated seven — almost eight — months ago, and very probably is going to be President for another three and a half years.

Minimum.

So, now, children, let’s calm down. All of you people over there saying Trump is unqualified and should be removed? Give it up. He’s qualified by the only qualification that matters: he is over 35, he is a native US citizen, and he won the damned election. The Constitution doesn’t have a clause in it for removal by vote of the media, or because his political opponents don’t like him. The only reason he can be removed Constitutionally is if someone finds high crimes and misdemeanors.

I am getting the impression that we could be at Nov 7, 2020 and the No-Trumpers like

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Jim Kofalt and Diane Bitter of the 603 Alliance joined me on Girard at Large this morning to talk about Initiative 18, an ambitious program to recruit and train candidates for the New Hampshire House for the 2018 Elections.

We talked about tools, training, and coordinating with other groups, as well as some of the challenges the program hopes to overcome on the way to securing future Republican Majorities in the New Hampshire House.

Part 2 …

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Fat Studies or Weight-Based Oppression could be the new Social Justice Belle of the Ball.

At Princeton,

This seminar investigates discourses and politics around the fat body from a performance studies perspective,” the course description states. “How does this ‘f-word’ discipline and regulate bodies in/as public? How do dancers reveal these politics with special clarity? How might fat be a liberating counter-performance?”

What about the adverse social effects of the war on obesity?

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Did you know that New Hampshire law forbids initiating sex with someone under the influence of drugs and alcohol? That’s what it says on the “About Alcohol” header of the UNH “Consent and Bystander Intervention” page, which reads,

Alcohol or drugs are often used as a tool for sexual assault.  UNH policy and New Hampshire law forbid initiating sex with a person who is incapacitated by the use of alcohol or drugs.

The first statement is very true; the second one is a bit misleading.

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