Sinead O’Connor has aged well
“You’ve got to be crazy to be a musician,” O’Connor said, “but there’s a difference between being crazy and being a violent abuser of women.” Still, the fact that her best-known song was written by this person does not faze her at all. “As far as I’m concerned,” she said, “it’s my song.” Amanda Hess…
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 about Michael Lewis’s book, “The Premonition” Michael Lewis talks about his book and Ezra Klein challenges him on the “public” part of public health. When were you ready to pull your kid out of school…
Civil Defense
“It’s confusing to say that vaccinated people can meet indoors without masks with unvaccinated people in one guideline, but that they should wear masks outdoors in a crowd in another guideline, without further explanation of why. If the idea is that, in crowds, we should keep masks for everyone because of sociological reasons, to avoid…
The Crime Beat
“So for instance if you run a ransomware business and shut down, like, a marketing agency or a dating app or a cryptocurrency exchange until it pays you a ransom in Bitcoin, that’s great, that’s good money. A crime, sure, but good money. But if you shut down the biggest oil pipeline in the U.S. for days, that’s…
The 1519 Project
Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and nations. Annette Gordon-Reed writes about Black origin stories in America from Texas to Florida to Virginia. The Atlantic, 4 May, 2021 This short piece covers a lot of ground, from Spanish America a century before Jamestown and Plymouth, to Florida and St. Augustine, where enslaved people…
Why?
You don’t understand the humiliation of it– to be tricked out of the single assumption which makes our existence viable– that somebody is watching… –The Player, from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard I blogged at Consimworld for years, but it’s not a good forum for opinion, and I didn’t have control of…
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