Are Nestlé's Business Practices Racist? & NCAA Hoops Coach's Abusive Tactics
Republicans Trust Trump Most for Ukraine Info, Johnson & Trump Push for Bill That is Already Law, "Golden Bachelor" Was Good for Seniors, Phil Ochs Sings "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends"
What I’m Discussing Today:
Kareem’s Daily Quote: Sometimes you just have to accept that crap happens without any reasonable explanation.
Trump Shockingly Finishes First In New Poll — And It's Not About The Election: America’s most notorious liar is their most trusted news source.
Trump and Mike Johnson push for redundant ban on non-citizens voting: There’s already a law banning it, but that won’t stop them from trying to take credit.
Nestlé Adds Sugar to Baby Milk and Cereal in Poorer Nations, Report Finds: Is it really that hard to run a business ethically?
Kareem’s Video Break: I watched it three times to make sure what I was seeing was real. It is.
NCAA Hoops Coach Exits With Hefty Payout—and a Trail of Scarred Players: We need to do a lot more to protect our children from toxic coaches.
‘Golden Bachelor’ Couple to Divorce Three Months After Televised ABC Wedding: The show’s shocking popularity helped change public perception of seniors from old lumps to passionate, hopeful people. The crash-and-burn of the couple doesn’t change that.
Phil Ochs Sings “Outside of a Small Circle of Friends”: Ochs was the poet laureate of folk singers. No one was better.
Kareem’s Daily Quote
The shit that happens to you is Not to Be Understood.
Eddie in Cost of Living by Martyna Majok
When the downtrodden character of Eddie utters this outraged statement of resignation in Majok’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Cost of Living, I felt the shock of recognition stand the hairs on my arm straight up. Sometimes the world pummels us with fist-sized hail in the middle of July and all we can do is ask WTF! We search for logic, for cause-and-effect, for karmic retribution, but sometimes the randomness and injustice of some events leave us slack-jawed and shaking our heads. It is Not to Be Understood.
The quote is neither about giving up nor about the need to rise from the ashes to fight back. It’s just about acknowledging that sometimes the world is beyond our understanding, beyond our comfortable notions of morality or science. It diminishes us the way looking up at a billion stars diminishes us. That doesn’t mean we abandon our commitment to creating a just society in an indifferent universe. It doesn’t mean ignoring the scientific pursuit of answers. It just means accepting that we are all subject to the cruel whims of existence.
There is some comfort in just knowing that to be true.