Year: 2020

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Best Books of the Decade

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On January 3, 2020
The second decade of the twenty-first century is now concluded. Time marches ever forward, carrying us inexorably towards death. On the other hand: listsicles! I started keeping logs of my reading in 2003, so the teens are the first decade where I’m able to look at my entire reading history and sum it up. And […]

State Media

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On January 3, 2020

It’s a tough competition between Sean Hannity and the Fox & Friends bros for the unofficial title of “Donald Trump’s most eagerly servile golf caddy,” but the former is rea

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My hot take on Suleimani: He was widely regarded as an exceptionally competent military officer with strong connections to militant groups across the region. He was ideologically and professionally committed to curtailing US and Israeli influence in the Middle East, and he facilitated actions that killed Americans, Israelis, Iraqis, and Syrians, along with the destabilization […]
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A Continent on Fire

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On January 2, 2020
The wildfire/extreme heat situation in Australia is about to get even worse: With more than 100 bush fires raging in New South Wales alone, Australia is bracing for a new round of extreme fire weather this weekend, prompting the unprecedented evacuation of tens of thousands of people in coastal Victoria and New South Wales. Weather […]
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Cuba!

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On January 2, 2020
Blogging will probably be extremely light from me for the next 10 days as I am taking students to Cuba starting tomorrow. Obviously my goal here is summed up here: Friends, am I going to be converting are good white Christian Americans into raging revolutionaries committed to all the isms? You know I am! In […]

The perfect game

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On January 2, 2020

The passing of Don Larsen, who as all baseball fans know threw a perfect game in the 1956 World Series, led me down a few statistical rabbit holes here in the devil’s workshop: Q: What is the ra

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