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All It Takes Is One.
Finally got around to reading Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario and the striking thing is not the ending, exactly — our radioactive annihilation has been played out in countless books and movies, with the Cold War movie Threads frequently hailed as among the most realistic. It’s the beginning of her book that’s scary. See,…
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The Wild Rush
I want a deep-dive article, podcast, or documentary on a virtually unknown country singer named Britni Hoover. Hoover was an entrant on the Nashville scene who released one album and, despite her best efforts, made almost zero impact to the point where she doesn’t even have a Wikipedia entry; hence the lack of links. And…
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Would You Read This? Edition 2
“You’re misremembering,” Victor said. “Like the Shaq genie movie.” “Kazaam,” Angeline said. “My son still swears that was a thing,” Larry said.
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What is your generation ranting about lately?
So, I was researching characters for something I’m working on and I was curious to know what GenX people are listening today. As in, what’s on their playlists now, not what was on their CDs in their car in 1998. My 50-something guy is driving down the road, listening to… what, exactly? Since I don’t…
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Would You Read This? Edition 1
She doesn’t know that Robbie’s death almost certainly has to do with me.
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Various and et cetera, April ’24 edition
Time magazine is no longer a serious publication. But you knew that already. Behold, the crisis in modern journalism as told in four covers: Everyone knows the only point of all the gazillion celebrity awards shows out there is to let the organizers party and hobnob with the celebrities. That’s it. And it’s no different…
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The death of community and MAGA
Note: this is effectively a preabmble for a forthcoming series on the Eighty Year Crisis. A while ago ago, professional internet troll Matt Yglesias touched off a bit of a public debate on that one emotion that only grows in power starting in our mid-20s or so, nostalgia. It’s what has everyone from politicians to…
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The Selfishness of My Self-Grief.
Grief is one of those strange words marked by the English language’s characteristic imprecision, a single word covering many discrete emotions. In its most common usage, we grieve over the loss of a loved one after their death. A family member, or perhaps a pet. It is this grief that keeps funeral homes in business;…
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No, the guns aren’t going away. Ever.
Add to my list of things that I refuse to have an opinion on: guns in America. Don’t get me wrong; I’d wish away guns in civilian hands in a heartbeat if I could. But that’s irrelevant. The undeniable fact is, a solid chunk of American voters like it the way it is, school shootings…
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Various and et cetera, March ’24 edition
programming note: this is part of a series of three unrelated mini-posts, the topmost of which is always guaranteed not to be about politics. promise! My patient the other day was a 27 year old female “Carla” here for routine STI testing. She stated she had one partner, had no symptoms at the time, and…
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