This week, Kelly Anne Conway did America a great service which she forced the nation to confront our unresolved feelings about the nonexistent Bowling Green Massacre.
We should have noticed the warning signs.
They were there one moment, then gone forever.
Blood everywhere.
Thank you for your service.
And you, too.
#Neverforget #Forgetwhat? #Itneverhappened #Americaisbeingrunbymorons #Wearefucked
- David Frum and Masha Gessen analyze Trump’s efforts to undermine democracy.
- Robert Kagan considers the results of the U.S. opting for narrow self-interest.
- If the election was held again now, would Trump still win the Electoral College?
- Trump’s trade war has American allies looking to do business with China.
- He railed against private servers, but Trump uses an insecure Android phone.
- Eliot A. Cohen assails the “power-sick” willing to abet Trump.
- Wearables pioneer Edward O. Thorp discusses Trump, Madoff and Wall Street.
- Modern Rasputin Alexander Dugin hates democracy and loves Trump.
- Ursula K. Le Guin says “alternative facts” are not sci-fi but are dangerous.
- Debora MacKenzie thinks about the history and future of nation-states.
- Warren Buffett and Bill Gates analyze automation’s pluses and minuses.
- James Gleick writes about Hugo Gernsback, immigrant tinkerer and seer.
- Andrew Russell wonders about the wisdom of Elon Musk’s Mars dreams.
- In the piecework economy, some Uber drivers sleep in their cars.
- Disruptors like Uber and Lyft seem prone to disruption themselves.
- Old Print Article: “Obscure peasant” Rasputin rises to power. (1914)
- Old Print Article: Charles A. Lindbergh angrily resigns. (1941)
- A brief note from 1933 about Tesla’s sleep habits.