Not for the first time, my barber was unfamiliar with men with copious body hair. Dude, just clipping a little below the collar line is fine – I’m not here for the full “40-year-old Virgin.”
Sometime after I turned 40 I stopped enjoying fiction as much as I used to. I think it’s been a bit more than a year since I read a novel I really LOVED.
Do you find that’s true for you?
This defense of Bloomberg’s appalling defense of redlining is bullshit. Redlining isn’t denying credit on the basis of financial risk. It’s denying credit to black people, regardless of their ability to repay the loan.
There are two generations of Mexican luchador wrestlers named “Dr. Wagner.” How did I not know this?
The Age of Decadence. The real story of the West in the 21st century is one of stalemate and stagnation.
Holiday-Travel Twitter Is the Best Form of Social Media. Play-by-plays from airports and bus rides offer random, unpolished personal moments.
“One might suppose that the popular prejudice against vaccination had died out by this time,” one writer complains. It sounds like a lament from today, but in fact, it’s from 1875."
The story about how Mike "The Monkees" Nesmith's mother invented liquid paper is surprisingly interesting.
She was a secretary. She saw a need and saw that the market would be women, because secretaries were women.
She priced the product low enough so that secretaries could buy it out of the discretionary fund they had for office supplies, without needing approval from a man.
And she marketed the product in a bottle that looked like nail polish, so her customers would already be familiar with using it before they even tried it.
Smart!
Who let “Who Let the Dogs Out” Out?
99% Invisible: The world’s greatest expert on the song “Who Let the Dogs Out” finds it surprisingly difficult to answer the question of who wrote the song.
San Diego freelance writer Beth Demmon says California Assembly Bill 5, which regulates contract workers, threatens her livelihood. She says she’s taken an immediate income hit upwards of 25% due to the law.
Tinder's Most Notorious Men
The users who reappear after countless left swipes have become modern urban legends.
Like mayors and famous bodega cats, they are both hyper-local and larger than life."
The Doc nails it. The sole issue for Democratic voters in the Presidential election is “make the bad man go away.” Everything else is a distraction.
However, things get complicated because for many Democrats, Bloomberg and/or Sanders are as bad as the Bad Man.
And Warren, Mayor Pete and Uncle Joe are, for many voters, ALMOST as toxic as the Bad Man. Those voters will hold their noses and vote for any of those three candidates if they have to. But that speaks to low voter turnout – toxic for Dems.
Overall, I like the Democrats' odds. But we’re going to have to work hard to win.
Good to know the ‘doomsday asteroid’ is not going to destroy the Earth Saturday, because I’m not going to be done reading Mary Robinette Kowal’s “Calculating Stars” by then.
Dave Winer makes the case for Bloomberg: More than a candidate for president.
I’m reserving judgment. I expect I’ll vote for Warren in the primary, assuming she’s still in the race, but other than that I don’t expect to support a candidate until the convention. And then I’ll support whichever Democrat wins.
Until a month ago I would have said “except maybe Bloomberg.” But I like the way he’s going after Trump. I still have strong reservations about Bloomberg, though.
Molly Ringwald revisits “The Breakfast Club” and the other 80s teen movies that made her a star. The films were often homophobic, misogynistic and racist but they inspired women, LGBTQ people and African-Americans with their depictions of kids who were estranged from the world they lived in.
The US is charging Huawei with racketeering
The DoJ alleges that Huawei and a number of its affiliates used confidential agreements with American companies over the past two decades to access the trade secrets of those companies, only to then misappropriate that intellectual property and use it to fund Huawei’s business.
