Via Slate: For what would have been his 85th birthday on Monday, Google has drawn up a wonderfully imagined Google Doodle as a tribute to the beloved illustrator and children’s book author Maurice Sendak…. For what it’s worth, various distractions over the weekend meant we were spared exhaustive dissections of a potential key foreign affairs …
Edward Snowden: Even Paranoids Have Real Enemies
Because I am informed that not everyone reads the comments. Video from the Guardian, which is of course all over this story. For the TL;DR demographic, NYMag‘s abbreviated version: … Edward Snowden is a 29-year-old former CIA analyst and current employee of defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. “I have no intention of hiding who I …
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Sunday Afternoon Open Thread: Boston Strong — Biggest Boston Gay Pride Parade Ever!
From WCVB (Ch. 5): BOSTON —A record number of people turned out Saturday to march in Boston’s 43rd annual pride parade, including Jason Collins, the first active male professional athlete in a major team sport to announce he is gay… “The support that I’ve received over the past month has been overwhelming, and hopefully it …
Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Color Shift
More NJ pics, from commntor Bob H. Here north of Boston, the roses that survive my neglect — Zepherine Drouhan, Don Juan, Jeanne LaJoie — are in glorious bloom, supplemented by a variety of pink-purple-magenta geraniums, including a lovely airy fern-leaved volunteer that pops up wherever the ground’s disturbed. This is the seasonal transition between …
Saturday Late Night Open Thread
There is no limit to what’s available on YouTube… (still can’t find a version of Tom Paxton’s “Attica”, though).
Open Thread: “Supernatural” Wealth Transfer
Ed Kilgore, looking for the lighter side, links to a National Review report on a 2008 book by E.W. Jackson, now running for lieutenant governor in Virginia on the GOP ticket: “We live in the most interesting times in human history. These are the days spoken of in Scripture, the days of fulfillment. This is …
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Open Thread: Info Wants to Be Free, But How Expensive Is Collecting It?
(Ted Rall’s blog) Gail Collins, at the NYTimes: … Does the N.S.A. really need all the stuff it’s collecting? Ever since the attack on the World Trade Center, the agency has been exploding. It has an enormous operation outside of Washington, and it is building another million-square-foot complex in the Utah desert. It collects an …
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