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Things I’m Verbing: Vichy Democrats, Jewish allyship and some cute, smart dogs
The left: Should we punch nazis? Did that Barron joke cross a line? Is La La Land actually bad? The right: We just dismantled the New Deal. — Alex Fernie (@FernieCommaAlex) January 24, 2017 Hey, some week! Right? Right? It's extremely hard to be productive when you're constantly monitoring social media for the latest threatContinue reading “Things I’m Verbing: Vichy Democrats, Jewish allyship and some cute, smart dogs”
Things I’m Verbing: Time travel, space travel and looking forward
I write you from John Glenn International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, where I’m waiting for the second day in a row to see if a nor’easter will keep my dinky plane from landing at LaGuardia. It’s been a good visit home, but a bit of a rough one — we’re clearing out my parents’ house soContinue reading “Things I’m Verbing: Time travel, space travel and looking forward”
Things I’m Verbing: Barack’n’Roll
I dug up some artifacts from Nov. 4, 2008, the day Barack Obama won the highest office in the land. I was in Chicago, 24 and a bit, an uninsured temp worker editing brochures for the American Medical Association about the nearly 50 million Americans who didn’t have health insurance then. First, I wrote this:Continue reading “Things I’m Verbing: Barack’n’Roll”
Things I’m Verbing: Marshmallows, lipstick and a dichotomous double dose
Possible solution pic.twitter.com/f1W8RxOOEH — rebecca roache 🇪🇺 (@rebecca_roache) January 16, 2017 My very earliest entries in this blog were not always up-to-the-minute stories and analyses. Sometimes I just posted things that I thought were cool. Given that by the time I post my next entry, the Shit Demon from Dogma will become the leader of theContinue reading “Things I’m Verbing: Marshmallows, lipstick and a dichotomous double dose”
Things I’m Verbing: Fake people, entitled men and literal Danish blanket forts
I started journalism school four years ago today — holy cats. That whole first quarter, all anyone could talk about was Snow Fall, the multimedia longform investigation that was supposed to change everything, and Manti Te’o, the Notre Dame football player whose inspirational long-distance girlfriend turned out to be a hoax. In light of the latter,Continue reading “Things I’m Verbing: Fake people, entitled men and literal Danish blanket forts”
Things I’m Verbing: Here Comes the General (Rise Up)
I know it's an illusion, people get old, your heroes pass, I know, I know. But this week, I admit, has felt malicious. — Linda Holmes Thinks You're Doing Great (@lindaholmes) December 29, 2016 Hey, we’ve done it! (She said, incautiously, with 36-ish hours to go.) 2016 is still sucker-punching us with all it’s got,Continue reading “Things I’m Verbing: Here Comes the General (Rise Up)”
Things I’m Verbing: Power plays, bad burgers and the real problem behind all this
I don’t have any links to share about Aleppo, and I feel terrible about that. “Massacre” seems too light a word to describe what’s happening there. Learn more about the White Helmets, the ordinary Syrians who are helping rescue people from bombed-out rubble; donate if you can. When we say never again, we should mean it.Continue reading “Things I’m Verbing: Power plays, bad burgers and the real problem behind all this”
Things I’m Verbing: Abortion, smugness and testimony
Oh my god, what has happened since Tuesday? I mean, there’s the Heartbeat Bill in my native Ohio, which criminalizes abortion at a point before most women even know they’re pregnant. There’s Trump getting the National Park Service to deny permits for weeks around the Lincoln Memorial to prevent the Million Woman March next month.Continue reading “Things I’m Verbing: Abortion, smugness and testimony”
Things I’m Verbing: Inside baseball, zero sums and global workarounds
https://twitter.com/summerbrennan/status/803957130856382464 This is still about where I am: angry, cynical, unable to square the idea that Trump was either an actively good choice or not a dealbreaker for millions of Americans. I’m told that cultural issues are just a big distraction from “the real story,” the economic devastation that “we all ignored” in “the real America.”Continue reading “Things I’m Verbing: Inside baseball, zero sums and global workarounds”
Esther Bergdahl 