Miscellaneous

Civilians fleeing toward rebel-held territory, Aleppo, by an anonymous AFP stringer, via Wired, and better you should read their searing article, tweets from the powerless at the front, than these, if you had to choose one.

I spent way too much time with the Twitter today to do a proper post, and more contemplating the horror of Aleppo being destroyed by mostly Syrian government and Russian forces and their enemies of the Nusra Front, whose new name I still can't make myself learn, and just nothing I can say at all, except this one faint ray of hopefulness from a pretty unexpected quarter:

Iran VP: Syria war images 'bother me' @AJEnglish https://t.co/RF0sngUpEq courage and compassion in Iran power structure

— (((Yastreblyansky))) (@Yastreblyansky) December 14, 2016

In more trivial news, former George W. Bush spokesperson Dana Perino was upset by the bad attitude shown by climate scientists in response to a series of Trump moves that frankly sounded fairly scary to me:

We are so Dicked!

Look out, Tom Friedman, here comes the centrist candidate of your nightmares, with his own blog and Twitter account. I mean Dick Nixon at Nixon Rising, rested, mean as they come, and contemplating another run:

It’s a new kind of day. We need a new kind of president to bring this country to its rightful place. Richard Nixon has been to hell. Not just through hell—he lived there. He knows hell like he knows China. And now he’s back. It’s Richard Nixon’s time again. The United States is ready for her first Undead-American president. An extraordinary man for extraordinary times.

Richard Nixon is counting on your support. And he’ll get it. One way or another, he’ll get it.

I don't know how long he can keep up the perfect-pitch style, at his age, but here's hoping he lasts a long time!
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