Aargh, more sports, serpents and other forms and metaphors
[ by Charles Cameron — following up on the comments section at Games, politics, and game metaphors, which shut down unexpectedly ]
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Zell Miller, Wikipedia:
Miller appeared in an interview with Chris Matthews on the MSNBC show Hardball. After Miller expressed irritation at Matthews’ line of questioning, Matthews pressed Miller with the question, “Do you believe now – do you believe, Senator, truthfully, that John Kerry wants to defend the country with spitballs?” Miller angrily told Matthews to “get out of my face,” and declared, “I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.”
spitballs, duel
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“both sides talk tough .. then there’s fighting”
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GOLDBERG: And so we here in this dystopian situation where John Bolton, the last person in the world who should be anywhere near the national security bureaucracy. This President has – he has dubious legitimacy at best, he doesn`t have popular support in the country. And we are stumbling toward an apocalyptic war that will kill millions of people, turn America into a pariah and our way of life. There is almost no way to talk about what a dangerous spot we are in without sounding insane.
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MATTHEWS: Where does that lead to? What does that lead to if Israel does that against an Islamic country?
CORN: Well, I would say one easy term is apocalypse. I mean, this is where they`re at.
apocalyptic war, apocalypse
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Deadline White House, Nicolle Wallace:
what I’d describe as a legal chess-match
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Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti:
I’m a pretty good poker player. We’re going to see how this plays out. We have a piece of litigation and we’re going to handle it diligently and surgically.
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https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6h05r9
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Neil Katyal, The Beat:
You don’t go and tell a wwitness who is possibly going to testify against you, Oh, well I’ll give you a pardon, don’t worry about it. You know, criminal lawyers, one of the first things any smart lawyer would do to any one of their ckients is to say, Don’t talk to any witnesses, don’t even say hello to them on the street, let alone something like offering up a pardon, a massive get out of jail free card
get out of jail free card
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Hardball “that is the wild-card here”
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A Night of Laughs Between Trump and His Favorite Punching Bag
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‘Not in a punch-back mode’: Why Trump has been largely silent on Stormy Daniels
The counterpuncher, so far, has held his punches.
“He’s really not in a punch-back mode,” said one friend who has discussed the matter with the president in recent days and requested anonymity to be candid. “Everyone is telling him, look, you can’t win here, so just do nothing.”
counterpuncher, punch-back mode
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Jay Sekulow?
he’s a really good shortstop who has been asked to pitch in the world series
March 31st, 2018 at 2:48 am
Annie Duke Will Beat You at Your Own Game:
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Meet the Press
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Hugh Hewitt, ~4.00:
Katy Tur: “
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The ads:
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“up our swagger game”
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“duelling lobster tails”
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INFINITI #QX50:
Hardball:
Russian ambassador: “dance”
Nina Khruscheva on Putin:
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All In:
“teed up”
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Behind the chaos: Office that vets Trump appointees plagued by inexperience :
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11th Hour:
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Discussing service of a subpoena to Malloch:
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McFaul:
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Richard Engle,
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Putin weak hand
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A fascinating BBC docu on Putin, putatively The Most Powerful Man in the World, crried the phrase:
March 31st, 2018 at 2:50 am
This looks fascinating:
April 1st, 2018 at 6:41 am
KiKidnapped Royalty Become Pawns in Iran’s Deadly Plot:
April 3rd, 2018 at 5:33 am
Nayyera Haq, in Hardball, 4/2/2018:
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April 3rd, 2018 at 6:37 am
April 4th, 2018 at 3:19 am
The journey of the poet is the shamanic one: to pass down the branches of the mind’s — not the body’s — arterial tree into the underworld. Shamans need certain specific skills, that are symbolized in the old underworld stories by the golden bough, the lyre, the clue, the magic flute, the shamanic drum or bagpipe, the spirit-doctor’s rattle, or the mask of the angakoq. These talismans refer to the ancient techniques of the arts — melodic structure, poetic meter, dramatic mimesis, the picturing power and pattern design of the visual artist, storytelling, and so on. New research is showing that these artistic forms have a double nature, a twofold loop structure like the figure eight or the infinity sign, with one feedback loop inside, within the neuroanatomy of the human brain, and one feedback loop outside in the cultural tradition.
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Fred Turner, Natural Religion<
April 4th, 2018 at 6:38 am
For Russia, Trump Was a Vehicle, Not a Target
April 4th, 2018 at 7:05 pm
Self-blindness ouroboros — Trump’s self-delusion blinds him to legal peril
April 5th, 2018 at 3:46 pm
Natasha Bertrand, How the House Intelligence Committee Broke:
tit for tat
April 5th, 2018 at 11:43 pm
Here’s a light, amusing ouroboros from FP’s Macron’s Been Working on the Railroad about a strike by the (rather special) French railway workers:
April 6th, 2018 at 12:36 am
Harry Litman (former Federal prosecutor):
I’m not sure that’s a real sporting metaphor, but it’s certainly an interesting paradox of sorts.
April 6th, 2018 at 4:59 am
Another astonishingly rich few paragraphs from Michael Avenatti on Lawrence O’Donnell’s Last Word, April 5,2018, 41.20:
I can’t transcribe the whole thing, but caught a great many sporting metaphors, mixed metaphors, mixed sports — listen to the video to get the full stream of consciousness:
In an earlier interview on The Beat with Ari Melber:
April 6th, 2018 at 6:29 am
For Trump and his generals, ‘victory’ has different meanings
April 6th, 2018 at 6:29 am
For Trump and his generals, ‘victory’ has different meanings:
April 7th, 2018 at 4:21 pm
Ari Melber:
Hardball
Revolution, Tim Cook:
Chris Lu on Rachel Maddow:
Meet the Press, Friday:
McFaul:
April 9th, 2018 at 2:50 am
Headliners special:
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April 9th, 2018 at 5:43 pm
April 10th, 2018 at 2:36 am
MTP:
The Beat:
HARDBALL:
ALL IN:
Misc:
April 11th, 2018 at 1:58 am
Def a form of boustrophedon, if not ouroboros:
April 12th, 2018 at 2:32 am
MTP “our team” cf OBL on dreams:
All In:
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Atlantic:
Rachel:
April 13th, 2018 at 2:06 am
‘We’re kids, but we’re also journalists’
Parkland students cover the shooting they survived and the classmates they lost
April 14th, 2018 at 3:50 pm
MTP:
David Corn, Why the Scooter Libby Case — and Trump’s Pardon—Really, Really Matter:
Hardball:
Wittes:
CHINA WINS 51 to 49 – HOW WE CAN STOP THEM BY TURNING THE TABLES:
April 16th, 2018 at 3:37 am
The Economist, duelling memos:
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Headliners, Julia E Ainslie:
Headliners, Nanci Clarence:
April 16th, 2018 at 4:18 pm
April 17th, 2018 at 2:03 am
Chris Matthews, Hardball, Tom Winter:
Trump throws another punch at fired FBI director Comey
April 19th, 2018 at 3:52 am
Xi may put ball in Trump’s court on talks with North Korea
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Nikki Haley’s savage own of Larry Kudlow is one for the ages
April 19th, 2018 at 10:21 am
Oh, lovely Nobel-winning ourobotros:
April 19th, 2018 at 2:39 pm
Morning Joe:
And if sports, games, and even theatrical plays and the playing of music get the most play around here, fools and folly should not be excluded from the wide-open category of play, being the utmost in serious playfulness — playing truth to power. Here, the fool takes on the guise of the juggler:
And one for my father, Capt. Orford Gordon Cameron, RN, DSC, a true Scot who loved the Scottish game, gowf:
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And how about this ourob at the heart of a fascinating piece: Dark Leviathan: The Silk Road might have started as a libertarian experiment, but it was doomed to end as a fiefdom run by pirate kings:
That’s so bite your tail serpent-like!
April 21st, 2018 at 6:57 am
“it’s like a gymnastics competition”..
“a poisonous counterpoint”..
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Hardball, Jennifer Rubin:
Kabuki:
April 22nd, 2018 at 4:29 pm
April 24th, 2018 at 10:08 am
New Yorker, From the Reporter’s Desk, email:
watching a tipsy cowboy on a bucking mechanical bull
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TrumpWatch, Chrid Mathews, 04/23/2018:
‘Playful dominance’: The touchy-feely relationship between Trump and Macron
April 25th, 2018 at 12:40 pm
Notes:
Morning Joe, re Harry Reid: like a boxer, not like a visionary leader..
April 28th, 2018 at 2:33 pm
Hoping to catch up.. some of these will be just notes..
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Your Evening Briefing 04/27/2018 NYT email:
macron boxing ref 11th hour @ ~45
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There is no one who can save Trump from himself
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The Lid: