Politics
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I like this Bush obit as a crash course on the political forces that shaped the world during my formative years. nyti.ms/2DU2iwe
Links: November 2018
Hello, dear reader!
November is gone, but its links remain.
I published a couple of nerdy blog posts in November: one about how I’m using my Letterboxd data to address my cinematic blindspots, and one about a common convention of editorial design that’s currently incompatible with CSS Grid.
Lots of interesting stuff in the links this month; for what it’s worth, my favorites are Earworm’s series of videos about jazz.
As usual, you can get many… See more →
Links: October 2018
Hello, dear reader!
October is gone, but its links remain.
I was mired in personal matters throughout October, so there wasn’t any activity on my site apart from the horror extravaganza that is Robtober, which was thankfully not disrupted. I finally finished a project that had been in the works for a few months: a custom-designed story with ProPublica Illinois about a family’s heartbreaking experience with an ill-conceived psychiatric clinical trial.
This round of links… See more →
Another shooting, same reliable GOP response: “that the only way to combat terror is to yield to it.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
have they blamed it on gritty yet twitter.com/nytimes/status…
Elizabeth Warren’s DNA debacle reinforces the pernicious myth of race as a measurable biological category. newyorker.com/news/our-colum…
This @mckaycoppins profile of Newt Gingrich is some depressing shit. Hubris and cynicism are a nasty mix. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
“It can be hard to tell when we’re consuming art and when we’re conducting H.R.” nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Members of the “Exhausted Majority” share “a sense of fatigue with our polarized national conversation.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Turnover in the Trump administration relative to the previous three administrations. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
“[S]ome researchers watched the mistaken-identity theory spread through the Senate this month with a sense of stunned dismay.” twitter.com/washingtonpost…
Links: September 2018
Hello, dear reader!
September is gone, but its links remain.
It was a big month for me, as I finally finished the project I was preoccupied with for most of the summer: Incomplete Open Cubes Revisited, inspired by Sol LeWitt. I also wrote about why and how I did it.
This month’s newsletter is a few days late because I wanted to include Robtober 2018, my annual deep dive into horror films which always takes… See more →
I’m suddenly seeing a lot of Fred Perry polo shirts in the wild. Do non-Proud-Boy dudes wear them? Is my instinctual revulsion unfair?
“What happened to make a rich white man the vox populi? […] How are the winners still insisting they are losers?” cjr.org/the_profile/tu…
Links: August 2018
Hello, dear reader!
August is gone, but its links remain.
My site was quiet in August, as I’ve been heads-down on a project I’m pretty excited about. Its release is just one facet of the ambitious September I have planned, so if all goes well, there will be much to report in next month’s newsletter.
My alter-ego Windhammer recently returned to the competitive air guitar stage for his 10th anniversary, tying for second in the… See more →
“You know what pro-life policies actually look like? Universal health care […]” theatlantic.com/family/archive…
“How and whether to cover a story must also hinge on what the story might do, and whose interests it will ultimately serve.” twitter.com/wphillips49/st…
Amplifying assholes/idiots can’t always be avoided but the media’s newest object of curiosity is best left in the corner with its dunce cap.
Links: July 2018
Hello, dear reader!
July is gone, but its links remain.
Apart from brief musings on films I saw recently, my lone post in July was a recap of my vacation in Brighton, from which I was reluctant to return. The ensuing extended brain vacation kept me from doing as much internetting as usual, so the collection of links is a bit thinner this month, but hopefully you can find something below worth scraping across your… See more →
This whole @LastWeekTonight segment is good, but don’t miss the interview with Anita Hill at 17:30. youtu.be/dHiAls8loz4
please stop the ride i want to get off twitter.com/AP_Politics/st…
Links: June 2018
Hello, dear reader!
June is gone, but its links remain.
It was a relatively busy month on my site! I had an unexpected reason to revisit an animated student film I made 20 years ago, wrote about designing better concert listings, chronicled my experience learning about the future of typography at the Ampersand conference, and offered middling reviews of the year’s most celebrated horror films, A Quiet Place and Hereditary.
This month’s links are the sort… See more →
“‘Your right to throw punches ends at the tip of my nose.’ […] where is the tip of our nose, exactly?” newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
This is just stupid enough that I’d consider spending a limited amount of actual money on it. mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/us/…
I always wondered why the political spectrum is termed left–right. It began in the 18th century French legislature. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left–righ…
“The federal departments involved in dealing with separated families have institutional agendas that diverge.” newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
“Look what you made me do.” newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
“He is testing to the breaking point relationships that there was never any reason to test in the first place.” theatlantic.com/international/…
“There is no deal to make with people like this, because there is no limit to what they want.” deadspin.com/the-nfl-is-too…
“Does alternative history need to be challenged beyond the merits of its own grotesque imagination?” kotaku.com/the-struggle-o…
Links: May 2018
Hello, dear reader!
May is gone, but its links remain.
The only thing I published on my site this month was a brief, snarky review of a 69-year-old movie (nice), but if all goes well in June, I’ll have a couple of substantial posts about creative projects (new and old) coming your way.
The links below include some meaty reporting on politics and a triptych of opinion pieces on our culture wars’ state of discourse.… See more →
Make some time for this month’s @TheAtlantic cover story on how America’s growing inequality is akin to aristocracy. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Well, I’m sure the banks learned their lesson. twitter.com/nytimes/status…
“A culture of fealty compounds itself; conformists thrive, and dissenters depart or refuse to join.” newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
“Glover forces us to relive public traumas and barely gives us a second to breathe before he forces us to dance.” newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
“It would be nice if those [using] their talents as entrée into another realm would do so with the same care […] they took in their craft.” twitter.com/TheAtlantic/st…
“[M]ore weapons tend to create more violence, and cyberweapons may be even harder to regulate than guns.” newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
How Trump and his mentor, Roy Cohn, were enabled by NYC’s political, media, and celebrity elite. A must-read. nymag.com/daily/intellig…
Great long read by @praddenkeefe on H.R. McMaster’s doomed stint as National Security Adviser. newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
Here @janetreitman unpacks the double murder that exposed Atomwaffen Division’s frighteningly humble origins. rollingstone.com/politics/news/…
Atomwaffen Division is a far-right extremist group with five murder charges in the past year. Among its ranks are active-duty military. twitter.com/ProPublica/sta…
“Hazardous waste facilities were more likely to be located in minority communities.” Learn from @TaliaBuford about environmental justice. twitter.com/ProPublica/sta…
Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis. I think I’ve seen the word “bellicose” more times in this presidency than in all the time before it. twitter.com/washingtonpost…
Links: April 2018
Hello, dear reader!
April is gone, but its links remain.
I’ve been obsessed with my current personal project lately (more on that soon), so apart from a handful of very brief movie reviews, I didn’t do much writing in April, though the web designers in the audience might want to take a look at my notes from last week’s Generate conference.
The links this go-round include some gems for Prince fans on the second anniversary of… See more →
Apparently the Secret Service doesn’t believe that more guns equals more safety. Interesting. twitter.com/washingtonpost…
“[P]art of the conditioning of the ‘patriarchal ideal’ is to make women feel empowered by it on their ‘own terms.’” nytimes.com/2018/04/23/mov…
“They made — gasp — compromises. They declined to let the ideological perfect be the assassin of the achievable good.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-wo…
Contrasting the political climate surrounding Trump’s impeachment rumblings and that of Nixon’s resignation. washingtonpost.com/news/politics/…
“Crisis pregnancy centers,” which use fake facts to steer women away from abortion, are often government funded. youtu.be/4NNpkv3Us1I