I don't know if I can read this
On Friday, President Trump sat down with AP reporter Julie Pace, and...well...here's the transcript, annotated by WaPo.I suppose I have to read it, but even in the first few moments, I'm struggling.
View ArticleAnd everything under the sun is in tune
The Atlantic has a collection of portraits of the Earth-Luna system you simply have to see.
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The daily torture of hourly step goals
Fitbit has a feature that tells you if you've taken at least 250 steps per hour. You can set the start and end times—mine are 8am and 8pm—but you can't turn off the feature entirely.This feature is...
View ArticleThings I'll be reading this afternoon
Some articles:Jeet Heer writes about President Trump's catastrophic first 100 days.Josh Marshall says that Trump's "religion of 'winning'" is the problem.Crain's Joe Cahill thinks that the best thing...
View ArticleMorning articles
Things to read today:Chicago Magazine bemoans the loss of two-flat apartment buildings in the city, citing increasing average rents.Josh Marshall catalogs all the times President Trump was surprised by...
View ArticleNarcissist in chief
President Trump met with the 2017 state Teachers of the Year yesterday, and, as usual, made the event all about himself:Usually, the National Teacher of the Year speaks. This year, that didn’t happen....
View ArticleThe merry month of May
April seems to have gone quickly this year, but that could just be my advancing age. I'm hoping to have a little more inspiration this month to return to 40+ blog entries a month—i.e., the running...
View ArticleIs he feeling all right?
The president gave a series of interviews yesterday that have people across the political spectrum perplexed, to say the least. Josh Marshall says they "generally seemed to be the work of a man simply...
View ArticleFitbit helping to solve crimes?
Via security expert Bruce Schneier, the AP reports that police in central Connecticut obtained an arrest warrant partially on the timing of a murder victim's Fitbit step data:Connecticut State Police...
View ArticleFountain of youth
For reasons that shall not be explained here, I have, for the last two weeks, binged on Lena Dunham's "Girls." For context, I'm in the middle of season 2 while simultaneously just done with season 6,...
View ArticleWe were #1
Forty four years ago today, workers in Chicago completed the Sears Tower:The original plan was to build two separate buildings. That was changed to a single structure, 1,454 feet high. As board...
View ArticleHow will it end?
The New Yorker's Evan Osnos explores how President Trump might leave office before the end of his term, and how likely that is:Trump’s approval rating is forty per cent—the lowest of any newly elected...
View ArticleConventional wisdom vs. evidence
Nate Silver has compared pundit analyses of poll data to actual voting results and determined that the pundits get things consistently wrong and in the wrong direction:This French election was part of...
View ArticleThey can't be that stupid, can they?
I'll get to Eddie Lampert's interview with the Chicago Tribune later today. But first, let's take a moment to realize that as we shake our heads at the amateur hour over at the White House, we knew...
View ArticleThis fake news is from Donbass, dumbass
Laura Reston at New Republic has a good piece on how the Soviets Russian government is doubling down on its disinformation campaign against Western democracies:One of the most recent battles in the...
View ArticleCool find in Canada
A fossil found in a mine in Alberta six years ago is one of the best-preserved dinosaur specimens ever discovered:On March 21, 2011, Shawn Funk was digging in Alberta’s Millennium Mine with a...
View ArticleThings that I can't read until I have a few drinks
Just, I dunno, man.Did the president blab to the Russian Foreign Minister what our intelligence capabilities are? In front of TASS, no less?How about the Troglodyte General reversing the Obama...
View ArticleA cautionary tale
The New York Times yesterday published a chilling description of how Venezuela's democracy sputtered and died:Venezuela, by the numbers, resembles a country hit by civil war.Its economy, once Latin...
View ArticleShrinking journalism in Chicago
I'm sad that an urban area with 8 million people can no longer support two regional, daily newspapers. This makes me very uncomfortable:Tronc, the parent company of the Tribune, has entered into a...
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