Lunchtime reading
Lots of stuff crossed my inbox this morning:Researchers at Northwestern University believe they have evidence of four distinct personality types.Other researchers have found "huge perceptual...
View ArticleFailing Amber Wyatt
The Washington Post has a must-read feature today about the sexual assault of 16-year-old Amber Wyatt in 2006—and how her Texas high school turned against her:The rumor — at least initially, and...
View ArticleThe Economist's Manifesto
Last week, The Economist celebrated its 175th anniversary with a call for renewing liberalism:Liberalism made the modern world, but the modern world is turning against it. Europe and America are in the...
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The scariest book I've read in years
Yesterday I finished Dr. Jeffrey Lewis's speculative novel, The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States. Why scary? Because Lewis lays out, clearly and...
View ArticleIt's not "he said, she said"
Writing in Forbes, psychologist Todd Essig says it's perfectly plausible that Brett Kavanaugh has no recollection of what to Christine Blasey Ford was a life-changing event:It is distinctly possible...
View ArticleThe death gurgles of Sears
Long-time readers know how much I hate what Eddie Lampert has done to Sears (recent example here). Now, apparently, even he thinks the company is done for:Edward Lampert's proposed debt reduction plan...
View ArticleSears death watch
After Eddie Lampert refused to advance any more cash to his failing retail chain, Crain's editorial board concluded Sears may be about to file for bankruptcy protection:Tracking the slow-motion...
View ArticleBad day for Lagunitas Brewing
The Petaluma*, Calif., based company, which has a major production facility here in Chicago, laid off 12% of its workforce:The workforce reduction will affect every department in the company, which...
View ArticleGo Dutch!
As in, "nice work, Dutch military, for unraveling a GRU operation and blowing 300 GRU agents worldwide:"Dutch authorities have photographs of four Russian military intelligence (GRU) operatives...
View ArticleWarming up to climate change
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released an alarming new report this weekend:The world stands on the brink of failure when it comes to holding global warming to moderate levels, and...
View ArticleSears in hospice care
Crains is reporting this morning that Sears has hired bankruptcy advisors and could file in the next couple of days:[S]taffers of the advisory firm, New York-based M-III Partners, have been observed at...
View ArticleWhy American transit systems suck
Anyone who has traveled from the US to Canada or Europe notices quickly that their transit systems simply work better. Londoners may moan about the Tube, but one can get from any part of Greater London...
View ArticleThe end is nigh for Sears
Oh, Sears. You've come to represent much that is wrong with American corporate culture, especially a CEO who embodies the Dunning-Krueger Effect with every syllable he utters.Crain's Joe Cahill argues...
View ArticleLinks before packing resumes
I'm about to go home to take Parker to the vet (he's getting two stitches out after she removed a fatty cyst from his eyelid), and then to resume panicking packing. I might have time to read these...
View ArticleWhat to do while waiting for tonight's deployment
We have a deployment at work tonight at 5pm (because in financial firms, you always deploy at 5pm on Friday). Fortunately, we've already done a full test, so we're looking forward to a pretty boring...
View ArticleJohn Kinzie's servant
One of the earliest settlers in Chicago, John Kinzie, illegally held a man as a slave who ultimately ran away. Kinzie then sued him in Louisiana to get him back:In 1804 John Kinzie moved into the old...
View ArticleWhy Treasure Island died
Crain's has some good reporting on why local grocery chain Treasure Island went out of business this month:After Christ Kamberos' death, Maria Kamberos became president and CEO and appointed her son,...
View ArticleEnough Bothsidesism
The journalistic fetish with trying to find balance when none exists has cropped up today in reporting on President Trump's false assertion that he can end birthright citizenship by executive order. He...
View ArticleDaily Parker election-year bait
CityLab discusses a University of Richmond project to map Congressional elections going back to 1840:“Electing the House” makes the most robust and comprehensive dataset to-date of Congressional...
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