. . .
K “The Smilodon donned quite a smile. Strategically curved white teeth. Without orthodontics or whitener. Or regular brushing. Could have been a movie star. Had to kill or be killed. Killed and was killed.”
J “You see it. The critter explains life. And death. Sitting in the split-level cave with a flickering fire and nothing to eat in the last fortnight wondering if the saber-toothed tiger gets you or you get the saber-toothed tiger.”
K “And today the saber-toothed tiger is much more subtle and cunning and menacing and camouflaged. And stalking us everywhere and all the time.”
J “Far more saber-toothed tigers are stalking us with less opportunity for us to harvest one than in recent memory.”
. . .
J “Airline seats will soon be modified baby chairs that may recline. For a fee.”
K “Another saber-toothed tiger stalking us.”
. . .
K “The pack is scared. The human pack. Is scared.”
J “You can feel it and smell it and hear it and see it and touch it. Out there. Everywhere.”
. . .
K “Those in power charge for access to water. They will soon charge for access to oxygen.”
J “As a society, we pursued oil and gas via fracking in the short run and in the process literally poisoned our water in the long run.”
K “That is an 800-pound saber-toothed tiger.”
. . .
J “And then there are Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS).”
K “Another 800-pound saber-tooth tiger.”
. . .
J “When an airline charges for access to the bathroom on the plane, take note.”
K “Another saber-tooth tiger stalking us.”
. . .
Bumper stickers of the week:
Lion or Gazelle?
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the slowest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter if you are a lion or gazelle: when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.
[Be the feline. It does matter if you are a lion or a gazelle. When . . . and what does the gazelle get to eat?]
. . .
“War has also taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow—or force—to dominate our being.” Eric L. Haney, Inside Delta Force: The Story of America’s Elite Counterterrorist Unit
e-commentary 
Eighth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2023 (May 8, 2023)
Posted in Awards / Incentives, First Amendment, Journalism, Pushitzer Prize In Commentary on May 8, 2023 by e-commentary.org. . .
“The envelope please. . . . This year’s Pushitzer Prize in Commentary is awarded to . . . Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger . . . for their work exposing the alliance between Twitter and other Big Tech Behemoths and Big Government that coordinates efforts to suppress and censor free speech. For their exposure of 51 foreign policy types who knowingly and actively interfered in the 2020 election in support of Biden. And for their efforts stirring the pot, asking hard questions, demanding answers, rejecting lies, spotlighting uncomfortable truths, comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. And being journalists.”
. . .
[See “Post-Decency Politics: House Democrats Use Hearing to Attack Both Free Speech and a Free Press” by Jonathan Turley in “JonathanTurley.org” dated March 13, 2023 and “Why Do Mainstream Democrats Hate Matt Taibbi?” by Yves Smith, the recipient of the Seventh Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2022 (May 9, 2022), in “Naked Capitalism” reprinting “Democrats vs. Democrats – One of Them Will Lose” by Thomas Neuburger in “neuburger.substack.com” dated April 6, 2023.]
[See the blatant dishonesty, hypocrisy and cowardice of the corporate stenographers who masquerade as journalists in America and cover for each other but disregard one of the world’s most courageous journalists in the proclamation “Journalism Organizations Call On Administration To Prioritize Reporters Taken Hostage [But Not Real Reporters Such As Julian]” dated April 14, 2023. And not a word about Gonzalo Lira today.]
[See the e-commentary on the ongoing international crime at The Persecution Of Assange And The Feckless MSM (September 21, 2020).]
[See the e-commentary on the Commentary Award and previous recipients at Seventh Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2022 (May 9, 2022), Sixth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2021 (June 7, 2021), Fifth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2020 (May 4, 2020), Fourth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2019 (April 15, 2019), Third Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2018 (April 16, 2018), Second Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2017 (April 10, 2017), First Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2016 (April 18, 2016) and Pulitzers Are Pro-War? Pressing The Pushitzers (April 22, 2013).]
[Please send your nomination for the Pushitzer Prize in Commentary for 2024 and a supporting letter by January 21, 2024 to e-ssay@gci.net and send the entry fee to your favorite charity.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Make journalism great again
Make journalism journalism again
Knowledge is not power, but ignorance is powerless
“First they came for the journalists. We don’t know what happened after that.”
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.” George Orwell
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