The Atlantic: Weed Weddings Are Now a Thing.
Sounds like driving around Colorado on spring weekends might get even more dicey.
The Art of VFX: AVENGERS - INFINITY WAR.
Excited. They've not let me down yet. All have been enjoyable for one reason or another (well, except for Dark World) ...
Wired: How the New York Times Is Using Strategies Inspired by Netflix, Spotify, and HBO to Make Itself Indispensible.
I could swear I read a similar article in 2000, when the internet was supposed to 'kill' print journalism.
Cancer drug prices must come down, say leading research institutes.
Should be ... patently ... obvious.
The Atlantic: How Americans Pay for Medical Expenses.
And how many more are stressed, trying to pay ACA rates? Telling that in spite of ~13 million enrollments, ~8 million are choosing to pay the penalty and not enroll. Tell the whole story, Atlantic.
CNN: Sen. Lindsey Graham - Silencing Sen. Elizabeth Warren 'was long overdue'.
As I continually point out, you may like some things he says, but he's no leftists' friend. You may not remember, as I do, that he came in with Newt and the Contract with America jerks.
CBS: Ted Cruz - "Democrats are the party of the Ku Klux Klan".
Oh Ted. Where did your Republican Party of today come from? Those disaffected Dixiecrats who switched parties in anger.
Art Daily: Sylvester Stallone's library collection of rare books debuts at Heritage Auctions.
ADRIAN!!!! Doesn't quite match the stereotype.
Italian Ways: Poster ads by Gian Rossetti.
You just don't get freewheeling creativity of this calibre anymore. Aesthetics and sex seem to drive everything now. Race to the bottom for emotional response, or mere shock. What the art folks won't tell you is, shock is easy. This kind of creativity, as embodied in these works, is not.
The Nation: Steve Bannon Wants To Start World War III.
Insights into his philosophy.
PS Mag: Why Is the GOP Rolling Back Methane Regulations?
My bold emphasis. Likely they're panicking at the fact costs of solar & wind are dropping below oil and gas prices.
Political Wire: GOP Operatives Using Encrypted Messaging App.
I would imagine Dems are taking steps too, in the wake of Wikileaks.
SF New Mexican: Refugees are risking a freezing winter trek to escape the U.S.
Losing fingers, perhaps more, over fear of Trump.
AI: New Mac malware from Iran targets US defense industry, human rights advocates with fake Flash updates.
Unlikely you'll run into it, unless it spreads more widely. Just FYI.
DP Review: Manfrotto introduces Xume magnetic holder system to make switching filters easier.
Well doy. One outfit already uses this idea for flash modifiers. This is a natural offshoot. Kudos to Manfrotto for getting there first.
Happy B-day, Charles Dickens!
I fear we'll want to you back, shortly. My father's favorite was David Copperfield; something in that book reflected his experiences as an orphan in the 20's and 30's. He never intimated exactly what. I can guess, but one guess is as good as another.
I don't do litmus tests.
Okay, tired of answering this. Just because I don't kneejerk to match you, or start howling at every appointment, does not mean I do not share your viewpoint. I am working to support the institutions I admire offline, don't you worry.
But. Realities must be dealt with.
These jokers were legally elected (both sides gerrymander, play with voting rules - none are innocent). They're implementing their agenda. We have, thanks to the botched Clinton campaign and the DNC, few tools with which to oppose these changes. (Clinton's still talking women's issues, Obama's off surfing with bazillionaire Richard Branson, while we get the likes of DeVos shoved down our throats, for goodness sake. It's like having Aragorn tubing down the Lonely Mountain and Galadriel busy with a knitting group while the Dark Lord takes over Middle Earth. The silence is deafening.)
By cutting yourself off from those ideologically opposed to you, avoiding challenging opinions, learning to hate thoroughly and completely - you're allowing Bannon-types and others to manipulate you. Once you learn to hate ideological opponents, it's all so easy to redirect you to hate other groups. And that's happening already. Dropped anyone who's not as upset as you are? I'm sure many of you have.
Surely you've heard of 'divide and conquer'? Simple, effective. A whole bunch of little vacuum chambers are easy to deal with, as opposed to a united electorate. Things are going to go South. There's no question. We need resources wide and deep. Keep those lines of communication open to leverage greater power in the future. For goodness sake, stop testing your friends and dropping them because they're not "Democratic" or "Progressive" or "Feminist" enough.
Cheap shots only antagonize. Effective opposition is based in actions. What they are doing. Why. What we are doing. Why. Stop shrieking about the change needed. Exemplify the change. Be the change. Live the change.
There's a simple technique you can use. I use it frequently. "At what point will you stop supporting the President/Congress/etc.? What line does he have to cross?" Write it down, email it to yourself and the person you're talking with. Supposedly 'being a (wo)man of your word' is a bedrock Conservative value.
Money where the mouth is. Sit and wait, patiently. And when that lines is crossed, use it. Hard.