In Memoriam, with Horseradish

In memoriam:

• Lonnie Mack, guitarists' guitarist
• Chyna, former wrestler
• Papa Wemba, Congolese/world music star

Horseradish:

• Bernie Sanders and the "poor people don't vote" assumption, not to mention:

  Oh, so people making under 50k are voting for Hillary. I guess they're not "real progressives" either, joining the ranks of the impure and unclean such as red state Democrats (who don't count), Southern Democrats (who reall[y] really don't count), Democrats over 40 (who don't count), Dems making over $50,000 (who don't count and are probably all paid shills) and black Democrats (who never counted but if they would only do exactly what we tell them to do maybe they would).

  Zandar Versus The Stupid.  See also Southern Beale.
  
• Conservative moans and creebs about American Life, part 262,144.  Yastreblyansky at The Rectification of Names deconstructs.  A taste:

  Of course, Ross [Douthat] acknowledges, reactionary thinking isn't always entirely proper:
  

  Those politics were frequently racist and anti-Semitic, the reactionary style gave aid and comfort not only to fascism but to Hitler, and in the American context the closest thing to a reactionary order was the slave-owning aristocracy of the South.

  But let's not ignore the good side! Reactionaries do make assumptions that sometimes correspond to the truth! At least Ross thinks they do!
  

  Reactionary assumptions about human nature — the intractability of tribe and culture, the fragility of order, the evils that come in with capital-P Progress, the inevitable return of hierarchy, the ease of intellectual and aesthetic decline, the poverty of modern substitutes for family and patria and religion — are not always vindicated. But sometimes? Yes, sometimes. Often? Maybe even often.

  If you just subtract the racism and anti-Semitism and keep the assumptions that might sometimes be valid—maybe even often, Ross thinks!—what's not to like? That's just how science works, right? (Spoiler: No.)
  
  The primary joke here being, I think, that if you do that job, if you really try to pull the unacceptable filth out and reduce it to some kind of decent, general, neutrally philosophical set of points, what you get is so much evidence that Robin's Reactionary Mind has it more or less exactly right.