Vlad, it’s Don. The walls are closing in. I need your help or I’m done for.
So sorry, Don. No time. Leaving now for a sexy three-way.
Hello, ladies.
No, I have no idea how I could have gotten dolphin syphilis.
- Rural counties supposedly voted Trump because of economics. The truth is more complicated.
- Peter York dissects the “dictator chic” of our newly minted kleptocracy.
- Trump sells nostalgia as China invests in supercomputers, semiconductors, etc.
- Falling American church attendance may have reconfigured the culture war.
- Malcolm Gladwell unfortunately discussed satire, which he knows little about.
- Tim Berners-Lee offers fixes for the Web, but the system may be the bug.
- Enzo Traverso argues the new fascist movements are a “transitional category.”
- The expansion of the surveillance state has made us fundamentally less secure.
- Despite contrary evidence, Ray Kurzweil believes AI has made us smarter.
- Harvard public health professor John McDonough did an AMA about the AHCA.
- Writer David Vann is despairing about literature’s future.
- Old Print Article: Stalin’s second wife a suicide. (1932)
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A brief note from 1938 about Arturo Toscanini fleeing Fascist Italy.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Luna 9 space mission, Lenin’s brain.