an abbreviated linkspam
I haven't seen either Sleepy Hollow or Agents of SHIELD (please don't spoil me!) because I'm desperately trying to finish my book club book before Thursday. This is what happens when you lose track of the date, and underestimate the length of the book. (Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis. Amusing but kind of repetitive, and rather long.)
Anyway, have some links.
Bill McKibben, one of the leading voices in the climate change debate, on the People's Climate March in NYC last weekend. In this odd new world I could watch aerial drone feeds of the whole long line on my phone as I stood under the Jumbotron screen in Times Square, which was broadcasting video of big solidarity marches in Paris, London, Melbourne, and Rio.
The Toast, on the invention of Christian denominations. Too brilliant. Mallory Ortberg is a national treasure, y'all: she should get ALL THE COOKIES.
This Sesame Street exhibit looks awesome.
This just depresses the fuck out of me. I can't even summon up outrage anymore. If there is a summary lesson here, perhaps it's that there is evidently no hole that can't be dug deeper. How could it be more obvious, after more than two decades of empty declarations of victory in Iraq, that genuine "success," however defined, is impossible? The only way to win is not to play.
Oh, and any Dunnett fans out there, or anyone interested in reading Dunnett, might find this interesting: a chapter-by-chapter read of The Game of Kings, well-annotated, and it explains the politics.
And now I'm off to bed. Later, fembots.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
Anyway, have some links.
Bill McKibben, one of the leading voices in the climate change debate, on the People's Climate March in NYC last weekend. In this odd new world I could watch aerial drone feeds of the whole long line on my phone as I stood under the Jumbotron screen in Times Square, which was broadcasting video of big solidarity marches in Paris, London, Melbourne, and Rio.
The Toast, on the invention of Christian denominations. Too brilliant. Mallory Ortberg is a national treasure, y'all: she should get ALL THE COOKIES.
This Sesame Street exhibit looks awesome.
This just depresses the fuck out of me. I can't even summon up outrage anymore. If there is a summary lesson here, perhaps it's that there is evidently no hole that can't be dug deeper. How could it be more obvious, after more than two decades of empty declarations of victory in Iraq, that genuine "success," however defined, is impossible? The only way to win is not to play.
Oh, and any Dunnett fans out there, or anyone interested in reading Dunnett, might find this interesting: a chapter-by-chapter read of The Game of Kings, well-annotated, and it explains the politics.
And now I'm off to bed. Later, fembots.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.