A Warning From Europe is a bit of read as it meanders to its point but the destination is well worth the trip. Besides, I like essays and articles that most see as tl;dr. Anyway, single-party oligarchies are waxing worldwide. The author discusses Poland and Hungary specifically but the parallels to the United States are…
I was so onboard with RSS (no acronym tag because no one can even agree what it stands for) back in the day. I wrote a blogging platform that stored data in RSS and used Python to render that into HTML for viewing. Subbing in an ‘.rss’ file extension would give you the raw RSS.…
Can I just say that Twitter represents everything that is wrong with U.S. politics? There is no nuance. Chronology and threading are exceptionally difficult. Individual tweets are consumed without scepticism. The noun ‘tweet’. The shambolic nature of the company behind the platform. I’ve never really understood the platform’s popularity. I have an account, well two…
My contribution to the continuing decline of political discourse in this country: Short Fingers. A Tumblr featuring manipulated[?] images of Donald Trump’s tiny hands. It’s small. It’s petty. It’s a thing that has gotten under Trump’s skin since the heyday of Spy magazine. And, damn, if it isn’t funny.
Holy smokes, Toronto. Your mayor knows how to deliver [1] when it comes to surprising career moves. [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-press-conference-2013-11
Levity in the eye of the hurricane. These are my people. [1] [1] https://github.com/WhiteHouse/fortyfour/issues/3
Companies advertising specials for folks being affected by the shutdown of the federal government rub me the wrong way. Giving away free crap, well, I suppose I’m not as irritated by that kind of thing. It still reeks of taking advantage of tragedy for a little self-promotion but I can see how it might be…
This [1] could actually get me to reconsider my anti-fandom of the Atlanta Braves organization. [1] http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/10/08/applying-government-shutdown-logic-to-the-baseball-playoffs/
So I’ve tried being circumspect about this. I know and even like folks on both sides of this issue. I’m trying out this a-political public face because, like many of y’all, I’d rather we just hang out and drink beer instead of wrestle in the mud. But, crikey, what even the hell? And, yes, my…
[Opinion on government shutdown]