Yesterday, President-elect Trump directed his paid staffers to stand in the audience of a press conference and cheer for him. / Politico See also: “Obama’s moving farewell, Trump’s terrifying hello.” / The Washington Post “Over time we settled in and learned to do what everyone else did—enjoyed the
It’s been a long, turbulent sleep, but now the Rooster wakes. Introducing the shortlist, judges, commentators, and Zombie poll for the 13th edition of The Morning News Tournament of Books.
The gun lobby is justifiably claiming victory after the election, after the red wave that swept the country's state legislatures and governors mansions (and, uh, White House). FYI, it's revving up to push both concealed and campus carry across the country this year.
A fun short film on the difficulty of giving someone a mountain for their birthday. See here for background, or some crisp portraits of life in Washington timber towns.
“The result was that a percussive rhythm emerged, one that I hadn’t created myself.” A musician pays homage to emergence by programming his drum synths to sift out a beat from the random noise of raindrops on his roof. ↩︎ posted Jan. 11, 2017 Life is like an eddy in
1. Apple TV is 10 years old. “The truth is that dents in the universe are only observable after they have occurred.” / stratechery.com “In 1989, though nearly 80 and nominally retired, Ms. Hollingworth, attired in a safari suit, her working uniform of choice for 60 years, was spotted in
"A medium as the internet, which absolutely establishes and shows us that we are living in total fragmentation." When a BBC interviewer blew off the notion that the web could have major impacts on society, David Bowie nailed the future of the internet two decades ago.
LA's desmogification came at the hands of a man named Dr. Haagen-Smit, who was able to distill raw LA air to a few "vile-smelling" droplets and analyze their contents.
As you suspected: it's impossible to peel an orange cleanly.
His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. In case it really needs saying, Kushner is a little rich kid whose daddy bought him everything (including admission to Harvard)—like Trump. ↩︎ ProPublica,
