This week, Maureen Dowd, who inexplicably used her column to yuk it up with fascist combover Donald Trump, is interviewing two more amusing guys to write a snappy piece about film and food.
- Old Print Articles: “Billy” Breakenridge recalls being a lawman in 1870s Tombstone, Arizona (1929) + Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are visited on death row by their sons (1953).
- Maureen Dowd of the NYT apparently thinks Donald Trump’s racism and xenophobia are a laugh riot, treating him like an amusing character rather than the hatemonger he is.
- Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld outdid themselves with their Amazon profile.
- Tesla could possibly operate an autonomous EV taxi fleet by 2025.
- Unfortunately, it’s not a sure thing robots will rise up and kill us all.
- Every American home may soon have utilize a helpful drone.
- A $15 minimum wage may speed up the automation of fast-food franchises.
- Philosopher David Pearce wants to engineer all suffering out of existence.
- Frank Wilczek believe CERN may make a bigger discovery than Higgs-Boson.
- William Friedkin explains why so many 1970 films were singular visions.
- Unsurprisingly, Frederick Wiseman is not a Reality TV fan.
- A brief note from 1869 about an impractical invention.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.