Covered this week; Janet Reno dies at 78… How the Cubs have done Jason Hammel a proper… America elects ass clown Donald Trump as its 45th President… Hillary Clinton concedes… Obama attempts to unify… the only comic book artist ever tried and convicted for obscenity… an opinion on the future of the Mac Pro… Leonard Cohen dies at 82… More on the US Presidential election… America’s media in the Trump age… Stephen Wolfram consults Hollywood on the propulsion of alien spacecraft…
November 7, 2016
Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general whose tenure spanned some of the most tumultuous periods in American life, died. She was 78.
The Cubs could have made it difficult on right-hander Jason Hammel. They could have picked up his $12 million option, stuck him in their bullpen and depressed his free-agent value next season. But they didn’t… Theo is better than that and the whole league know it…
November 8, 2016
Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States… a strange new land, David E. Sanger wiring for the New York Times… Trump’s lawsuits follow him to the White House, John Kelly and Nick Penzenstadler for the USA Today… Trump’s Cabinet? Check out this bizarre cast of characters, David M. Jackson in the USA Today… How the Presidency was won, Tim Dickinson for Rolling Stone…
Hillary Clinton concedes… Barack Obama attempts to unify…
November 9, 2016
“Since the medium’s inception, comics have had a few significant moral panics where people screamed that cartoons would topple society as we knew it. But only one comic-book artist has been found guilty of obscenity and told not to draw anything again, even in the privacy of his own home.”
Marco Arment ponders a world without the Mac Pro…
November 10, 2016
Leonard Cohen, the hugely influential singer and songwriter whose work spanned five decades, died at the age of 82.
November 11, 2016
Returning to the election for a moment…
For those looking to make sense of what just happened in this Presidential election… would you believe that an article by David Wong for Cracked magazine has the best take I’ve seen yet? Great read, go start to finish on this one and try to make yourself believe… it would appear the sooner we do, the better off our Country will be.
“A wave of disillusionment and anger — wide and by all appearances intensely felt — secured the presidency Tuesday for Donald Trump. He won by turning out victories in a wide swath of the United States, a base of support broad enough to secure him a strong majority in the Electoral College even though he lost the popular vote.”
“There was a great deal of talk in this campaign about the inability of the “low-information” voter to understand the rhetoric of candidates who spoke above a sixth-grade language level. We were told by academics and analysts that Trump’s public addresses rated among the most simplistic political rhetoric ever recorded. But that story cut in both directions, in a way few of us silver-tongued media types ever thought about. The People didn’t speak our language, true. But that also meant we didn’t speak theirs.” Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone…
“What happened in America Tuesday should not be seen as a victory for hatefulness over decency. It is more accurately understood as a repudiation of the American power structure. The power structure of America wrote off Sanders as an aberration, and, until recently, didn’t take Trump seriously… ‘The economy is in good shape, most Americans are better off than they’ve been in years’ was the battle cry… but it simply didn’t reflect the insecurity most Americans continue to feel, nor the seeming arbitrariness and unfairness they experience. Nor do the major indicators show the linkages many Americans see between wealth and power, stagnant or declining real wages, soaring CEO pay, and the undermining of democracy by big money.”
November 12, 2016
Trump, the media and the First Amendment… Margaret Sullivan for the Washington Post.
November 13, 2016
Consulting on the science contained within Hollywood movies… this is a fantastic piece, wonderfully illustrated by Stephen Wolfram… and for those original computer software gangsters out there… this is the same Wolfram that coded Mathematica.
