Housing Policy
A HUD proposal last year aims to create more opportunity for recipients of housing aid. Could it work?
Monthly Archive: June 2017
Morning Ed: Politics {2017.06.22.Th}
Old trees hated Greg Abbott before Greg Abbott hated old trees.
There Will Be No Single Payer
But take heart, the future of government health-care is almost certainly more generous than its present.
Wednesday!
Is it possible to make an album when everybody is totally tripping on acid?
As it turns out, it is.
It’s Their Universe, Not Ours
Shared Universes are a recommendation algorithm and a sequel factory and our enjoyment or lack thereof doesn’t really factor in.
Sunday!
So let’s say you’re having a movie night for co-workers.
You need to pick a movie that will get the most people to say “okay, I’ll come to your movie night”.
What movie do you pick?
Weekend!
“I’m going to be getting a crown”, I told my co-worker.
Their eyebrows knitted.
“At the dentist”, I clarified.
Science and Technology Links – June 15th – Micro Magnets Edition
Just finished a two day Hackathon, and this will be the last Tech Thursday, since we are moving it to Tuesday (where, let’s be honest, it rightfully belongs – Tech Tuesday just reads better).
Wednesday!
I bought an album that is the best album I’ve listened to in years. Seriously.
It’s Nothing’s “Tired of Tomorrow”
The Contemporary Monomyth
It is exceedingly difficult to get people to tell each other new and different stories than they do.
Yet it may prove to be existentially important to persuade them to do exactly that.
When they cower before Trump outrage, corporations make us angrier and dumber — WaPo (Alyssa Rosenberg)
No public funds were used in the controversial portrayal of a Donald Trump-like Julius Caesar.
For Democrats, Blue-Dogs are the way Forward
Democrats have always been more powerful as a party when their coalition is broad and inclusive of a large slate of conservative leaning red and purple state Democrats. Building such a coalition is getting harder, but it is still the only way forward.
