Today's lunchtime round-up only had one article about current politics:
- John Scalzi warns that "nostalgia is a luxury."
- The president, sick with Covid-19, took a joyride around the grounds of Walter Reed Army Medical Center yesterday, resulting in several aides and USSS officers going into quarantine.
- Devon Price asks, "do you have 'Zoom Fatigue' or is it existentially crushing to pretend life is normal as the world burns?"
- Spirit Hub, a Chicago-area startup, aims to sell spirits from distilleries too small to get on liquor store shelves.
- The Union Pacific Railroad has started collecting tickets from Metra riders again, by herding us into pens at Ogilvie Transportation Center.
- The BBC asks "who had GPS failure for November?" (I'm paraphrasing.)
- Google explains how they maintain their satellite photo library.
Finally, I came across an interview actor Michael Shannon gave Playboy in 2018 that's worth the read.