Web Log for 7.17.25

Political, but light...

Ethics 

Rand at her clearest. But, perhaps, pessimistic. These conditions have sometimes been reversed.

Radio

Well, I laughed...

https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/07/16/laugher-of-the-day-npr-ceo-says-rural-communities-rely-on-public-broadcasting-n4941817

It's not that nobody in Gate City would ever want to listen to NPR out of Blacksburg or Floyd or wherever they broadcast from. It's that we have to be at least a hundred miles up the road before that signal comes in. Rural communities not only can't rely on NPR; many, perhaps most, of them can't listen to NPR. I grew up listening to the small local stations, WGAT, WKIN, WKPT, WJCW and later WDUF. Two of those still exist. Radio-locator.com says 34 radio stations can be heard in Gate City but I've never heard most of them. Maybe somebody in town has picked them up one night, probably not on two nights.

(Should "conservatives" listen to NPR? Why not? How many other radio stations do live interviews with authors? Where else would I ever have heard Amy Tan read excerpts from The Joy Luck Club? It's nice to have a car radio dial tuned to NPR...when the car gets into range.)

Television 

Maybe she needs glasses and hearing aids?

(Lens says the cartoon was drawn by Tom Stiglich. I ganked it from Joe Jackson's NSFW, sometimes R-rated site.)