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Happy returns
Happy returns
Two progressive candidates won seats on our town’s school board yesterday, and a regressive current member was defeated. That makes me happy. Farther from home, Janet Protasiewicz won decisively and will have a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. That makes me happy too.
#democracy#autocracy
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Happy returns
ATTN: MSNBC
ATTN: MSNBC
If I want to see moneyed persons exiting planes and stepping into big black vehicles, I can watch Succession. At least Succession shows what’s happening in the planes and cars.
#MSNBC#news#television
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
ATTN: MSNBC
Recently updated
Recently updated
DFW on the shelf: Now with a screenshot of an MSNBC guest with Infinite Jest and other interesting books behind him.
#DavidFosterWallace
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Recently updated
Precedented
Precedented
From today’s installment of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American: “This is the first time in history a former United States president has been indicted, although it is worth remembering that it is not new for our justice system to hold elected officials accountable.” Including a number of Illinois governors.
#Illinois#politics
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Precedented
DFW on the shelf
DFW on the shelf
On MSNBC just now: on a bookshelf behind Nick Ackerman, former Watergate prosecutor, a copy of Infinite Jest.
#DavidFosterWallace
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
DFW on the shelf
Two Manhattan addresses
Two Manhattan addresses
64 East Seventh Street in Greenwich Village, still standing, and now the subject of a song cycle, lyrics by David Hajdu, music by various composers. And 14 Gay Street in the East Village, now gone.
#NewYorkCity
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Two Manhattan addresses
The Internet Archive in the courts
The Internet Archive in the courts
The Washington Post: ”A federal judge has sided with four publishers who sued an online archive over its unauthorized scanning of millions of copyrighted works and offering them for free to the public. Judge John G. Koeltl of U.S. District Court in Manhattan ruled [March 24] that the Internet Archive was producing “derivative” works that required permission of the copyright holder.”
#books#technology
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
The Internet Archive in the courts
Handwriting, again
Handwriting, again
This article appears to be the one for which the Times solicited samples of bad handwriting last October.
#handwriting
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Handwriting, again
The Milky Way
The Milky Way
The phrase “the Milky Way” first appears in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The House of Fame (c. 1380).
#Chaucer#words
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
The Milky Way
NYT vs. Guardian
NYT vs. Guardian
I left a comment on the Times article, noting that it’s a remarkably demure account of yesterday’s cult gathering. Letting the details go unreported increases the danger that Trump and his followers pose to our democracy.
#democracy#journalism#NewYorkTimes#autocracy
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
NYT vs. Guardian