Ordinary Sunday Brunch: Culture Quick Links
Ordinary Sunday Brunch is Ordinary Times cultural quick links for you enjoyment. This week; music, art, history, and food.
Monthly Archive: August 2018
Sunday!
Today is Wendell Berry’s birthday. He’s 84. May his 85th year on this planet be a bountiful and invigorating one. Maribou elaborates on her feelings about his work, inside.
Ignoring the Lessons of Donald Trump
As Donald Trump continues to make a mess domestically and internationally, have his opponents learned anything? Nope.
Biases and Lies, Told By Us, To Us
A while back Jaybird brought up “Priming” while dealing with the Yanni vs Laurel thing. Cognitive bias, however, influences just about every thought you have in one way or another, and dealing with it beyond just behavior in understanding it better is a complex endeavor.
Austin Petersen: GIFs, Tweets, and Senate Seats
“Having a candidate silenced is a threat to American democracy,” The statement read. Let us leave the debate over whether or not the republic can endure 12 hours of Twitter silence from Austin Petersen for a moment, and deal with what this incident shows us about the man.
Linky Friday: Family and Friends
Linky Friday is Ordinary Time’s Friday tradition of compiling links from around the world and across the web straight to you. This week in Linky Friday: Family, Friends, Unfriended, and Reunion, soundtracked with songs of people we love, hate, and love to hate. Read and share.
The Art of the Heel
Jim Acosta and CNN versus Trump and the MAGA crowd is the most entertaining storyline going in news media. Which is exactly how it was designed to be.
Techlash and Soulcraft
How Christopher Beha’s satire of celebrity culture creates space for the human in technology’s panopticon
