This week, in order to make it appear like he’s appointing a representative number of African-Americans to his cabinet, the President-Elect summoned comedian Steve Harvey to Trump Tower.
And so, in closing, my good friend Sinbad and me, we’re gonna make America great again or some shit like that. But mostly I’m going to further enrich myself and maybe destroy U.S. democracy.
Wow, I’ve been running around nonstop all day. I really need to take a pee break.
It’s imported directly from Russia. Salut!
- Candidate Trump was “John Gotti with a Southern strategy.” Now he’s a capo with nuclear capabilities.
- Some thoughts on BuzzFeed’s Trump dossier controversy.
- Chuck Johnson may be consulting with Trump. That it’s possible says it all.
- A defrocked Catholic priest proselytizing for Breitbart in Europe is profiled.
- There were four questions submitted to his AMA I hoped Julian Assange would answer. (He addressed one of them.)
- The lawyer who helped Peter Thiel kill Gawker is pursuing more media outlets.
- Walter Winchell lived to witness the grim demise of his vast fame and power.
- John Thornhill considers the dubious business of “Data Capitalism.”
- PDAs are a big deak, but their cultural implications are more interesting.
- Phone conversations declined as the devices got great, Doug Coupland writes.
- A piecemeal human workforce stealthily does tasks AI can’t complete.
- Automation may or may not leave humans without enough jobs.
- Simulated plane crashes are a team-building exercise. VR will go much further.
- Looking ahead without looking foolish is possible if futurists think rigorously.
- James Gleick writes that our sense of time–past, present, future–may not exist.
- Rural Iowans who hate socialism and welfare should be asked a question.
- Exorcist writer William Peter Blatty, congratulated and cursed, just died.
- Nat Hentoff lived in a rare time that supported a cerebral “heretic.”
- Old Print Article: The “Last Pioneer Of The Covered Wagon Era” dies. (1928)
- Old Print Article: Jean-Martin Charcot, “Napoleon of Neuroses,” dies. (1893)
- A brief note from 1939 about Salvador Dali’s arrest.
- A brief note from 1928 about a skull collection.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Agatha Christie, Bat Masterson, etc.