“You’ve got to be crazy to be a musician,” O’Connor said, “but there’s a difference between being crazy and being … More
Author: Nels
Former Breakout: Normandy GM at the World Boardgaming Championships run by the Boardgame Players Association (boardgamers.org)
Covid Gets the Moneyball Treatment
The villain of Lewis’s story is not Donald Trump; it’s the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ezra Klein, writing … More
Civil Defense
“It’s confusing to say that vaccinated people can meet indoors without masks with unvaccinated people in one guideline, but that … More
The Crime Beat
“So for instance if you run a ransomware business and shut down, like, a marketing agency or a dating app … More
The 1519 Project
Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and nations. Annette Gordon-Reed writes about Black origin stories in America from … More
Why?
You don’t understand the humiliation of it– to be tricked out of the single assumption which makes our existence viable– … More
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