Outside the Beltway

The current business model is collapsing. It’s about time.

The oldest state institutions of higher education are spending money to make money.

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Sometimes both.

Faint praise edition.

Disney is making some unwelcome moves.

CNN gave the former Liar in Chief a huuuge platform.

They’re fighting for fair treatment. They’ll likely lose.

BuzzFeed, Disney, and others are making big cuts.

The left and right are attacking basic rights. But not equally.

Disney has replaced a controversial song at its theme parks.

The trailblazing television interviewer is gone at 93.

The biggest entertainment product in America is getting bigger.

The ship is abandoning the sinking rat.

There are too many products chasing too few consumers.

Has a franchise that’s always been political gone too far?

A follow on from yesterday.

It’s the Swiss army knife of profanity.

The latest strategic moral panic from the far right

The only way to save our freedom is to destroy it.

Stories of note sans write-ups.

Two related examples: are they “cancel culture” or not?

One of the great annoyances of the Internet is slowly going away.

Thomas gets the ball rolling, and I take off from there.

Is the past still the past?

Are we really being blocked from getting back to normal? And if so, what is the real barrier?

But only the original books, not the Disney adaptations.

When life doesn’t imitate art.

The Hall of Fame coach and legendary broadcaster is dead at 85.

A long peek at history in the making.

Is the Worldwide Leader responsible oblivious to bigotry?

The right questions are: 1) why do some some on the right like him, and 2) should this concern us all?

Making it difficult for refuseniks works better than prizes.

The cost of raising a university’s profile.

The tabs must be cleared.

The tech giant is even more powerful than you think.

An example from Dan McLaughlin of NR

Pandemic-induced recession? What pandemic-induced recession?

The Lone Star State is celebrating its independence in a big way.

Thus far, Disney+ and HBO Max are additive rather than cannibalizing competing services.

The days of one-stop media shopping are long gone.

The actor best known for his roles as Jackie Robinson and Black Panther has been lost to cancer.

The NBA playoffs have been hit with a work stoppage.

The President may be right on voting by mail.

It is foolish to think that we ever escape politics.

Some inchorent musings about a massive question.

A sign of the times.

More fallout from the consolidation of media brands.

An interesting albeit dubious selection for Person of the Year.

René Auberjonois, a long time character actor best known for his roles on Benson and Star Trek: Deep Space NIne, has died at 79.

A custody case out of Texas raises issues about how to react to and treat a child who identifies as a gender different from their biological sex.