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On Amazon. An interesting adaptation of the magazine to film. I've seen two episodes and quite like it. Each had a documentary, one on how the CIA didn't communicate with the FBI before 9/11 and the other on child bull/calf riders and their families. Episode 1 did have a weird bit with Paul Giamatti...

Donald Trump = ([(Steve Maxwell^BMac)/Sonnon*Davies]+(Furey-Pavel/Dan John))^GLASSMAN(Starrett^(2/3)*X where X = Good God, this actually happened.

Seriously, the dude belongs in one of BD's shit corn pie guru threads.

Any new additions on this front? Our first is in the mail and should be here at the end of May.

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Not seething racism, seething nationalism. Money is national currency, so it should honour national heroes. Now is Harriet a hero? Sure but you do not replace her clear superior for her. ( Not racially, just in accomplishments) She was a pawn, a notable one, he was a player, a notable one. She was ...

In the midst of Tom Wolfe's 'Back to Blood' about Miami. Quite good so far.

I wish I hadn't just googled krokodil images.

I'm a big fan of Serious Eats and J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, though I have not yet tried his reverse sear for steak. Start in a very low oven and sear at the last moment at the end in a hot cast iron skillet. I've done lots of steaks in a cast iron skillet with kosher salt only and one flip, but there is a...

Plantation- and race-based chattel slavery is unique to the New World and the last 550 years. England's slavery and abolition isn't remotely applicable in any meaningful way. Some interesting research and history is going on that ties slavery in the New World to African's genetic predisposition towa...

I sent this presidential candidate quiz out to my entire school community and quite a few were stunned with the results. It covers all major issues and you can click 'other stances' for a more nuanced selection of answers, as well as ranking the priority of issues. A couple of Trump acolytes were en...

Not a Buddhist, but there have been interesting recent protests in India that combine the caste system with quotas in public sector employment for an interesting comparison to affirmative action.

, but I'll bet that there's never been a country in the history of the world that has done more to right such an egregious wrong. Yet.......it seems that it's never enough. White Amurrikkka needs to do more more more to expunge its racial past. Its native born and immigrant population bears the ind...

Why was their family structure in better shape circa 1955 then, say, 2005? According to the implications of TerryB's 'family structure' statement. That's the metric- it's self contained and a perfectly relevant and fairly accurate response. Yes, you can dive into standards of living and poverty rat...

Everyone's family structure was better in 1955.

While not on topic (though any thread four pages long is typically long since off topic), I found the Harper's article below to be a fascinating examination of why we should forget 9/11 and the ways in which remembrance of past tragedies, affronts, crimes perpetuates them. Germane to our thread is t...

Originalism was a fringe movement and its rise in popularity is context specific to Scalia's time on the bench. He was far from an intellectual purist on the matter. Citizens United has nothing to do with originalism and neither does Heller if we're going to be intellectually honest. I also find it ...

I love Bruce, but I wasn't sure how much I'd like a concert in tribute to an album (it's the 35th anniversary of The River). In hindsight, that's only because I didn't know the album well, which is a great one. The show in Atlanta was exceptional and 3.5 hours straight with one 90 second break befor...

Wonder what his Italian wake will be like...

And anyone interested in investing should look into Jack Bogle and Vanguard. Sort of like the IGX of investing, but, like, a way nicer guy. Simple and reliable and proven.

From The Onion a few years ago: NEW YORK—According to a report released this week by Forbes magazine, every person who has regularly watched CNBC’s financial program Mad Money since its 2005 premiere is now a multibillionaire. “[Host] Jim Cramer turned out to be 100 percent accurate with every stock...

Great movie. Best analysis I've seen, aside from the collaboration between Planet Money and This American Life on the 'giant pool of money' episode. Still worth a listen six years on.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-a ... l-of-money

It's a quirky little independent movie on Netflix. Guy Pierce and Colbie Smulders work in a gym and train with a newly rich, newly divorced, fat stoner. Lots of pretty funny moments in the training sessions, but the best are the bits with Anthony Michael Hall as the Russian kettlebell expert. [youtu...

We've got one left in this season. It is very, very good.

Get an old iPhone for your music or a new iPad and put Coaches Eye on it. Slo mo & frame by frame video and you can draw on it. Pretty slick app.