24 thoughts on “Peak Salon

  1. Try a taste. You know you want to:

    Trump is a businessman, while Mitt Romney was a businessman too, yet I predict victory for the former while the latter obviously lost miserably. What is the difference? While Trump “builds” things (literal buildings), in places like Manhattan and Atlantic City, places one can recognize and identify with, and while Trump’s entire life has been orchestrated around building luxury and ostentatiousness, again things one can tangibly grasp and hold on to (the Trump steaks!), Romney is the personification of a placeless corporation, making his quarter billion dollars from consulting, i.e., representing economic abstraction at its purest, serving as a high priest of the transnational capitalist class.

  2. I forgive Salon for all the H.A. Goodman brain farts and this click-baity guy today and for always being about three days late to any actual news story, simply because it publishes Amanda Marcotte and Digby. I wish Brittney Cooper was still there simply for my own convenience, but I totally get why she moved on to better opportunities and the bigger audience she deserves. Heather and Amanda will follow someday, and then there will be no more reason to read Salon.

    |Amanda today, as usual, has a worthwhile perspective on the Bernie Watch.|

    Oh and also too Gary Legum (of course!) and Sean Illing, but really most of the rest are interchangeable.

      1. The hubris in their silly, sensational headlines drives me nuts. It's always this ridiculous, supposed mic-drop, final word, culture-changing mentality, generally over some minor thing like a talk-show monologue or dinner speech: "Jon Stewart destroys Donald Trump," "Obama eviscerates Boehner," "Colbert conquers Palin defenders." If they're destroyed, eviscerated or conquered, then why are they still there the next day and doing just fine? ugh. We just want to read the news, Salon, we don't want to act out.

    1. Just saw on twitter that Bernie told a reporter today that he thinks he should get to choose Hillary's cabinet members. Has he actually gone insane?

        1. It was tweeted by Tapper, but watching the video, it was Jonathan Martin of the NYT insinuating that's what Sanders wants while never saying Bernie said that. I hope any candidate would know better to ask for that because it's ridiculous and not how it works: http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/05/23/2016-poli

          So, not quite true, but watch for it to be a talking point tomorrow.

  3. The only time I bother with Salon anymore is to keep up with those select few worthwhile columnists and to hate-read the inevitable Paglia and Patrick L. Smith click-bait posts.

      1. Sorry.

        Actually, I usually can handle only a few scattered sentences before I go off and revel in the eviscerating comments sections. The fact that The Academy actually pays those two teaching salaries says a lot about the sad state of American intellectualism today.

        1. I think she is just completely untethered. I can't even actually read her anymore, she generates such a swirl of anger and confusion and crazy in my head. Why anyone gives her a platform baffles me.

          1. It has to be hateclicks. I always feel bad and wrong after I've read any of her missives and I will probably just dive right into the comments now.

            Smith, now…not only can he not write properly, I would not be at all surprised if he turns up somewhere in the Panama Papers hooked up with one of Vlad's Besties.

          2. Purposeful contrarian who does so for the attention – IOW another Ann Coulter minus the vulgarity

          3. Perhaps if we just all stop paying attention to the angry children pulling up their skirts and throwing public tantrums, they'll knock it off.

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