Love thy neighbor?
What might it take to persuade some people to take COVID-19 seriously and act accordingly? I’ve wondered if this message might work.
Same as it ever was
remember talking on the telephone with my dad about the death of Amadou Diallo. My dad put it simply: “If he’d been white, he’d be alive.” That was 1999. And now again, with the death of George Floyd, as with so many other deaths: If he’d been white, he’d be alive. I think it really is that simple.
Emma González for Congress
She addressed a rally for gun control and called B.S.
“Prayers and condolences,” again
A student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida, responding to a presidential tweet offering “prayers and condolences.”
“The only variable”
From The New York Times: “The only variable that can explain the high rate of mass shootings in America is its astronomical number of guns.”
Antigone in Ferguson
Whatever the fate of Sophocles and other representatives of “western civ” in academia, their work remains perpetually relevant to human suffering and human endeavor.
The decline of the omnivore
Growing up to be an omnivore.
JapanNYC
“If you think of every place where there’s wars going on, where there are terrible times, where people are suffering, they always look to music and culture. These are the things they look to for solace.”
Digital naïfs
"Many so-called digital natives are in truth digital naïfs. The natives’ naïveté is considerable."
Mysteries of the tollbooth
"A tollbooth's interior is mysterious — most people haven't seen what' s in there."
David Frauenfelder on fear and spending
"Though no one's job is perfectly safe, if we all decide we must have two years' of savings in the bank before we spend again, eventually no one will have a job except the security guard at the bank."