Michael S. Schmidt
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Links: March 2017
Obama Administration Rushed to Preserve Intelligence of Russian Election Hacking
While assessing the significance of Flynn’s and Sessions’s meetings with Kislyak, an ambassador, consider this:
The label ‘intelligence official’ is not always cleanly applied in Russia, where ex-spies, oligarchs and government officials often report back to the intelligence services and elsewhere in the Kremlin.
What Is Race?
A good crash course on race from Whit Taylor.
Pissed Jeans: Why Love Now
I’ll probably have this… See more →
Links: January 2017
Rob Weychert’s Year in Review
My personal movie-watching stats for 2016, provided by the always delightful Letterboxd.
Why Classic Rock Isn’t What It Used To Be
But do radio stations rely at all on the institutional knowledge of their DJs to decide what to play?
Nope. The role of the song-picking DJ is dead. “I know there are some stations and some companies where if you change a song it’s a fireable offense,” Wellman said,… See more →