Bicycles, a proxy for the culture wars
Conservatives have drawn lines in the silliest of wars: the war on bikes.
Jonathan McLeod
/// July 17, 2013
Conservatives have drawn lines in the silliest of wars: the war on bikes.
Jaybird
/// July 17, 2013
They asked if we ripped them. We said that we did. Eumenides? There. That’s as good as I could do on short notice. Get your copy of The Kindly Ones. It all comes down...
Mike Schilling
/// July 17, 2013
Here’s a new one that doesn’t spell anything. More math, less English.
Erik Kain
/// July 17, 2013
On the new site design, name, and philosophy. Feedback is welcome.
Patrick
/// July 17, 2013
A read. That post, in a nutshell, does a good job of explaining the underlying ethos that makes me reject iLife products.
Will Truman
/// July 17, 2013
It’s looking like we may be passing through Chicago with a little too much proximity to rush hour. Back home in Colosse, you can avoid the worst of it by taking a loop around the city. Is there any option in Chicago that would allow us to avoid the worst of the traffic by bypassing the city (or the city’s core)?
Burt Likko
/// July 17, 2013
One of NPR’s pop culture reviewers got the cinematic equivalent of nachos with extra cheese sauce the other day. It’s fun and tasty even though you know it’s not good for you. The reviewer seems like she has only just discovered the joy of Bad Cinema, but now she’s hooked. In particular she seems amazed that they got “Actual Actor John Heard” to pummel a foam rubber shark with a barstool. The way that works, of course, is that the Actual […]
Kazzy
/// July 17, 2013
I fully recognize that the MLB All-Star Game is primarily an exhibition, in spite of the Commissioner’s attempt to “make it count” instead of just doing what the NBA and NHL does and just assign home-field advantage in the championship round to the team with the better record*. And I get that the MLB All-Star Game MVP matters even less. But awarding it to Mariano Rivera for the impressive task of throwing a single shut-out inning, a feat 5 other […]
Murali
/// July 17, 2013
If sex is no different than any other kind of activity, why are sexual contracts uneforceable?
From CNN Business:
New York (CNN Business)Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications related to his cancer treatment, his company said. He was 87.
Adelson took a leave of absence from Sands last week to resume treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which his aides first disclosed in late February 2019.
(Featured image is "Some birds hanging out at the Sands Casino in Atlantic City" by iirraa is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Comment →In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.
The researcher, who asked to be referred to by their Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among others, Parler is one of a number of apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.
(Featured image is "A radio tracking device on a Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) at the Cotswold Falconry Centre" by Anguskirk and is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Comment →From Twitter Safety:
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021
(Featured image is "Free Bird" by Ennev and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Comment →From DFW's CBS:
DALLAS, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Chief Judge Barbara Lynn of the Northern District of Texas has reversed a previous ruling of the Court that had dismissed all claims against the City of Dallas in the murder of Botham Jean.
The federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Dallas is now allowed to proceed once an amended lawsuit is filed.
We discussed Amber Guyger getting indicted here.
We discussed her trial here.
(Featured image is Botham Jean from The Botham Jean Foundation/Facebook)
Comment →January 18, 2021
Game of Thrones: Little People, Big World
January 18, 2021
Sunday Morning: “Swann’s Way/ Swann in Love” by Marcel Proust (Pt 2)
January 17, 2021
Yann’s Hot Dog Stand, Chocolate Milk, and Hometown Tradition
January 17, 2021
January 18, 2021
January 18, 2021
Game of Thrones: Little People, Big World
January 18, 2021
Sunday Morning: “Swann’s Way/ Swann in Love” by Marcel Proust (Pt 2)
January 17, 2021
One of the Saddest Sights In The World
January 17, 2021
Yann’s Hot Dog Stand, Chocolate Milk, and Hometown Tradition
January 17, 2021
Saturday Morning Gaming: Guacamelee!
January 16, 2021
Saturday Spins: Cowboy Junkies The Trinity Session
January 16, 2021
It’s Not Just About A Speech: Impeachment and President Trump
January 13, 2021
January 6th: A Layman’s Post About Group Behavior
January 14, 2021
I Love My Country, But Let’s Not Kid Ourselves.
January 16, 2021
Impeachment, President Trump, and Evidence That Demands a Verdict
January 12, 2021