I am once again suffering from technology. So my university has introduced compulsory two-factor-authentication using a Cisco smartphone app in order to access JSTOR and the like, which was already a hassle. I had to hand-write a letter to IT because I couldn't get to campus to set it up, lol. Now Google has updated their "integrity" standards and my cheap Chinese phone is no longer allowed to use said Cisco app at all, which means I'm forced to buy a new phone and contact IT again to set it up. All this because some IT people got it into their heads that the normal method of JSTOR authentication is nonviable or insecure or something. Frankly, I'm hoping those kickbacks from Cisco are worth it.

No president in our history has done worse.

What a statement. Forget the Native American genocide, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, dozens of wars of aggression the world over, or, on an individual level, raping women and owning slaves (sometimes both at once): that's nothing compared to riling up followers on social media.

Besides, these platitudes about how important stating the obvious truth is are the kind of propaganda any side can claim for themselves. Real lack of media analysis on display here.

Hate Pistorius so much. I realize you don't become Minister of "Defense" without being a warmonger, but his rhetoric is so much worse and openly lusting for war than his predecessors (and he's a Social Democrat, of course). At this point he could start copying Nazi speeches verbatim and nobody would be able to tell the difference.