Facebook is a discordant marketplace-of-ideas battle royale unlike anything in human history. Most of it is inane (or worse) dreck. But some of it is brilliant – enlightening, uplifting, empathetic. If we could get rid of the 99.99% that isn’t we’d have a foundation for a better world. But we can’t. So for now we’ll have to make do with
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The COVID-19 pandemic is the defining moment of our generation. The last global crisis of this magnitude was World War II, and with any luck we won’t see anything this dire again for decades. That’s probably wishful thinking, for a variety of reasons (climate, for instance), but we can hope. We’re living in History – with a capital H.As in,
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It’s inevitable that we all want to get back to normal. But when we do, it won’t be “back.” It’s going to be a very different normal. But… We keep hearing this phrase: “the new normal.” I suspect the people who use it the most are the ones who really get it the least. Their “new normal” wisdom seems to
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Visitor to America: Hello! I am new in your country. Can you teach me importants for live here? Me: Visitor to America: OK! Am now leaving!
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The NFL just administered a stupidity test to the American public. How’d you do?
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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The Amy Wax/UPenn problem isn’t about academic freedom, it’s about unexamined privilege. And firing her won’t solve the problem.
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Remembering…
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It’s been 20 years. I’m not sure I have anything new to say. On April 20, 1999, at 11:19am MDT, the world changed.
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In a society that can’t think (or count), one case proves the point. That it’s actually just one bad actor and the other 99.99% are hard-working, regular folks like us is of no consequence to the hysterical idiot.
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There are lots of bad people doing bad things in their online dating lives. This woman is doing the very worst.
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam fucked up when he was a young man. And now the debate raging is whether or not he ought to resign.
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Many of the league’s “most hated players” have committed no crime worse than being black.
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“Nobody wants to live in Dogpatch.”
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Did the conservative NBC pundit just demonstrate a bit of empathy?
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