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I’m not going to be watching tonight. My wife and son will be, but me? I’m around the corner to a bar with the ballgame on. I’m a wimp. I’ll admit it. I can’t take the debates anymore. I get too pissed off; I get scared; I get enraged…you get the idea. I’d rather follow […]
Time for some tragi-comic relief. The man whose serial fabulism in his breakthrough book should have sunk his career is back, with some advice for African American high school athletes inspired — tempted! — by Colin Kaepernick’s protest during the national anthem. The whole thing is as grotesque as you’d expect, David Brooks’ paean to […]
This is just a quick pointer to the essential read of the day. If Kurt Eichenwald’s brutal, beautiful story on the Trump Organization’s seemingly limitless overseas conflicts of interest with US policy doesn’t become the dominant campaign story for the day and much longer, then, again, we’ll know who and what our media are. One of the […]
This is a video that will haunt your nightmares: Go to NPR‘s story on this for a narrated version of the video — and you’ll find that what you see is a bacterial colony developing extraordinary capacities for antibiotic resistance in a shockingly short time — two weeks, or a little less, to go from a naive, […]
I think it’s a serious risk to disagree with Adam; he’s basically always right. But I do find myself differing from him on one question: is The New York Times actively trying to deny Hillary Clinton the presidency, or are their actions better explained by a less evil, more dangerous tendency? Adam’s on the overt evil side: they’re trying to […]
Here’s another slightly edited dispatch from my ongoing off-social-media conversation with some political reporters on the obvious implicit bias I see in coverage of Clinton vs. Trump. The reporters I’ve engaged publicly and privately don’t see it that way — and they are, I firmly believe, sincere and honest in that belief. So the task, […]
POSTER’S NOTE: Dear all, I’ve just done something I essentially never do. I’ve gone into two comments and redacted a couple of sentences that made what read to me as sexually hostile statements about a specific reporter. The commenters are long time and respected members of the community, and I not only get that this […]
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