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Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Now That's Big
Last of April Mid-Week Links
More stories for you:
The Mobster Who Bought His Son a Hockey Team – The Atlantic. This is as good as it sounds.
ESPN Fawns Over The Intelligence Of Trevor Bauer, Who Is A Big Dumb Asshole - Deadspin. I really have no opinion about Trevor Bauer, but this made me laugh, and the twitter exchange is amazing.
Yangxiang aims high with sows on many floors – Pig Progress. I have no idea if this is true, but if it is, it sounds like a horror show.
Remembering the ‘Spooky Wisdom’ of Our Agrarian Past – The American Conservative. I still don't think the phase of the moon has anything to do with setting fence posts.
Bosch Says It's Made a Breakthrough That Can Save Diesel Engines – Bloomberg
The Key to Everything - New York Review of Books
The Renegade Sheriffs – The New Yorker
Church of the Donald – Politico and Maybe It’s Time to Admit That The “Grotesque Caricature” of White Evangelicals is the Reality - Religion Dispatches. These bother me more than most things Donald.
Why Trump Gets Away With Lying – Bloomberg. This makes an important point. I have a hard time talking about Trump without saying, "dumbfuck" or "suckers," but that isn't going to sway any of his supporters, and probably will just make them dig in their heels deeper. That's a challenging situation that requires more of me (and is one of the reasons I haven't written much about Trump).
Mick Mulvaney Says the Quiet Part Out Loud – The Atlantic. Yeah, draining the swamp.
The Reinvention of America – James Fallows. He's more optimistic than I am, but that is a good thing (honestly, it is often hard to be more pessimistic than me).
This animal kills more people in a day than sharks do in a century – Gatesnotes. Trump is far from alone when it comes to freaking out about sharks.
The Mobster Who Bought His Son a Hockey Team – The Atlantic. This is as good as it sounds.
ESPN Fawns Over The Intelligence Of Trevor Bauer, Who Is A Big Dumb Asshole - Deadspin. I really have no opinion about Trevor Bauer, but this made me laugh, and the twitter exchange is amazing.
Yangxiang aims high with sows on many floors – Pig Progress. I have no idea if this is true, but if it is, it sounds like a horror show.
Remembering the ‘Spooky Wisdom’ of Our Agrarian Past – The American Conservative. I still don't think the phase of the moon has anything to do with setting fence posts.
Bosch Says It's Made a Breakthrough That Can Save Diesel Engines – Bloomberg
The Key to Everything - New York Review of Books
The Renegade Sheriffs – The New Yorker
Church of the Donald – Politico and Maybe It’s Time to Admit That The “Grotesque Caricature” of White Evangelicals is the Reality - Religion Dispatches. These bother me more than most things Donald.
Why Trump Gets Away With Lying – Bloomberg. This makes an important point. I have a hard time talking about Trump without saying, "dumbfuck" or "suckers," but that isn't going to sway any of his supporters, and probably will just make them dig in their heels deeper. That's a challenging situation that requires more of me (and is one of the reasons I haven't written much about Trump).
Mick Mulvaney Says the Quiet Part Out Loud – The Atlantic. Yeah, draining the swamp.
The Reinvention of America – James Fallows. He's more optimistic than I am, but that is a good thing (honestly, it is often hard to be more pessimistic than me).
This animal kills more people in a day than sharks do in a century – Gatesnotes. Trump is far from alone when it comes to freaking out about sharks.
Sunday, April 22, 2018
Chart of the Day - Earth Day Edition
We are screwed:
A reminder for #EarthDay that our planet’s temperature is rising pic.twitter.com/68ktAHUYjI
— Ed Hawkins (@ed_hawkins) April 22, 2018
Late April Weekend Links
More stories for your perusal:
The Man Who Brought Down Lance Armstrong – The Atlantic
Iowa's minor league baseball teams team up to help repair the vandalized Field of Dreams infield - Des Moines Register
Local Courts Lift Arkansas Weedkiller Ban, Creating Chaos - The Salt. Chaos seems to be standard for agriculture right now...
Exclusive: U.S. sorghum armada U-turns at sea after China tariffs - Reuters
The Maraschino Mogul’s Secret Life – The New Yorker
OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong - The Verge
Canary in the Coal Pond - Propublica
Engineers Are Leaving Trump’s America for the Canadian Dream – Bloomberg. MAGA is effectively MAWA. No greatness about it.
Palantir Knows Everything About You – Bloomberg
Ranked: The Best and Worst State Economies - Visual Capitalist. If there is a correlation between tax rate and ranking, it appears to be a positive correlation.
The Man Who Brought Down Lance Armstrong – The Atlantic
Iowa's minor league baseball teams team up to help repair the vandalized Field of Dreams infield - Des Moines Register
Local Courts Lift Arkansas Weedkiller Ban, Creating Chaos - The Salt. Chaos seems to be standard for agriculture right now...
Exclusive: U.S. sorghum armada U-turns at sea after China tariffs - Reuters
The Maraschino Mogul’s Secret Life – The New Yorker
OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong - The Verge
Canary in the Coal Pond - Propublica
Engineers Are Leaving Trump’s America for the Canadian Dream – Bloomberg. MAGA is effectively MAWA. No greatness about it.
Palantir Knows Everything About You – Bloomberg
Ranked: The Best and Worst State Economies - Visual Capitalist. If there is a correlation between tax rate and ranking, it appears to be a positive correlation.
Friday, April 20, 2018
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Not-Quite-Time-To-Plant Links
This weather is pretty frustrating, but eventually we will be hitting the fields. Until them, here are some things to read:
What Hurricane Maria Didn’t Wreck: Puerto Rican Baseball – New York Times
In North Carolina, Hog Waste Is Becoming A Streamlined Fuel Source – The Salt
Scientists Want to Replace Pesticides With Bacteria – Bloomberg
The Megafire Burning in Oklahoma - The Atlantic
Climate Boundary Shifting East Due to Global Warming – Drovers Magazine (h/t the old boss)
Climate change: A farmer’s call to action - Indiana Prairie Farmer
Why New York City Stopped Building Subways – City Lab
San Francisco’s Big Seismic Gamble – New York Times
The Quest for the Next Billion-Dollar Color – Bloomberg. A much more interesting article on pigments than you would expect.
Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician - Quanta
Tensions grow between conservation, commerce in Ohio’s state forests – Columbus Dispatch
The Warrior at the Mall - New York Times (h/t Kaye)
Ryan Zinke’s Great American Fire Sale – The New Yorker. The only guy in Trump's cabinet who can give Scott Pruitt a run for his money as chief asshole.
Everyone Wants To Go Home During Extra Innings — Maybe Even The Umps - FiveThirtyEight
What Hurricane Maria Didn’t Wreck: Puerto Rican Baseball – New York Times
In North Carolina, Hog Waste Is Becoming A Streamlined Fuel Source – The Salt
Scientists Want to Replace Pesticides With Bacteria – Bloomberg
The Megafire Burning in Oklahoma - The Atlantic
Climate Boundary Shifting East Due to Global Warming – Drovers Magazine (h/t the old boss)
Climate change: A farmer’s call to action - Indiana Prairie Farmer
Why New York City Stopped Building Subways – City Lab
San Francisco’s Big Seismic Gamble – New York Times
The Quest for the Next Billion-Dollar Color – Bloomberg. A much more interesting article on pigments than you would expect.
Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician - Quanta
Tensions grow between conservation, commerce in Ohio’s state forests – Columbus Dispatch
The Warrior at the Mall - New York Times (h/t Kaye)
Ryan Zinke’s Great American Fire Sale – The New Yorker. The only guy in Trump's cabinet who can give Scott Pruitt a run for his money as chief asshole.
Everyone Wants To Go Home During Extra Innings — Maybe Even The Umps - FiveThirtyEight
Sunday, April 15, 2018
Traditional Tax Day Links
Here are the latest stories for you:
James Harden Isn't Playing Around – GQ
As dairy crisis crushes farmers, Wisconsin's rural identity in jeopardy - Dairy farmers have been getting pummeled. I feel awful for them.
Republican Farm Bill Calls On Many SNAP Recipients To Work Or Go To School - The Salt. Subsidies for me, but not for thee.
Texas is making billions from oil and gas drilling, but counties say rural roads are being destroyed - Texas Tribune
Be Good or Be Gone: The Legend of McSorley’s Old Ale House - Modern Drunkard. I've never been to McSorley's. I will need to go the next time I'm in New York.
How a Defense of Christianity Revolutionized Brain Science - Nautilus
Does Tech Need Silicon Valley? - California Sunday Magazine
Two Decades of War Have Eroded the Morale of America’s Troops – The Atlantic. This is a must-read. My position has always been that the best way to honor our troops is to not send them to be maimed or killed in pointless, unwinnable wars.
A Saudi Prince’s Quest to Remake the Middle East - The New Yorker. The man's PR just isn't good enough to cover for what he's really up to.
Michael Cohen and the End Stage of the Trump Presidency - The New Yorker. I don't know, almost 46% of the voters in 2016 voted for the obviously crooked businessman, I'm not sure why even more evidence that he's a crook is going to convince them they've been conned.
Trump’s Company Is Suing Towns Across the Country to Get Breaks on Taxes — “Trump, Inc.” Podcast – ProPublica. See above for why voters won't change their opinions on this asshole.
Is It the Spending or the Taxes? Mostly the Spending, But ... – Justin Fox. In honor of Paul Ryan's (aka Bizarro Robin Hood) retirement from robbing from the poor to give to the rich.
Amid Trade Feud, Recycling Is in Danger of Landing on Trash Pile – Wall Street Journal
Where Blue-Collar America Is Strongest - FiveThirtyEight. This map reflects the best farm economy in a generation. We've seen the peak, and it is going to be worse going forward.
James Harden Isn't Playing Around – GQ
As dairy crisis crushes farmers, Wisconsin's rural identity in jeopardy - Dairy farmers have been getting pummeled. I feel awful for them.
Republican Farm Bill Calls On Many SNAP Recipients To Work Or Go To School - The Salt. Subsidies for me, but not for thee.
Texas is making billions from oil and gas drilling, but counties say rural roads are being destroyed - Texas Tribune
Be Good or Be Gone: The Legend of McSorley’s Old Ale House - Modern Drunkard. I've never been to McSorley's. I will need to go the next time I'm in New York.
How a Defense of Christianity Revolutionized Brain Science - Nautilus
Does Tech Need Silicon Valley? - California Sunday Magazine
Two Decades of War Have Eroded the Morale of America’s Troops – The Atlantic. This is a must-read. My position has always been that the best way to honor our troops is to not send them to be maimed or killed in pointless, unwinnable wars.
A Saudi Prince’s Quest to Remake the Middle East - The New Yorker. The man's PR just isn't good enough to cover for what he's really up to.
Michael Cohen and the End Stage of the Trump Presidency - The New Yorker. I don't know, almost 46% of the voters in 2016 voted for the obviously crooked businessman, I'm not sure why even more evidence that he's a crook is going to convince them they've been conned.
Trump’s Company Is Suing Towns Across the Country to Get Breaks on Taxes — “Trump, Inc.” Podcast – ProPublica. See above for why voters won't change their opinions on this asshole.
Is It the Spending or the Taxes? Mostly the Spending, But ... – Justin Fox. In honor of Paul Ryan's (aka Bizarro Robin Hood) retirement from robbing from the poor to give to the rich.
Amid Trade Feud, Recycling Is in Danger of Landing on Trash Pile – Wall Street Journal
Where Blue-Collar America Is Strongest - FiveThirtyEight. This map reflects the best farm economy in a generation. We've seen the peak, and it is going to be worse going forward.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Mid-April Midweek Links
I managed to find a few decent stories in the midst of all the crap out there:
The one baseball's been waiting for – ESPN. This dude is fascinating.
The Team With the Three-Man Rotation – Wall Street Journal
White Sox, Rays play in front of reported crowd of 974 – MSN News. From one of the biggest baseball-haters I know.
The Wonder Protein That Makes Cheese So Stretchy - The Atlantic
In the Battle for the American West, the Cowboys Are Losing – Wall Street Journal
Giant genitals were the downfall of some ancient crustaceans – Nature. Uh oh.
Ocean circulation is changing, and we need to know why - Nature
Lovely Weather We’re Having … Now Who Will Save Us? - Belt Magazine. I just came across Belt Magazine, but they have some terrific articles that are right in my wheel house.
More Mississippi bridges added to list; counties get 24 hours to begin closures – Mississippi Today. The Republican Party wants to make the rest of the country just like Mississippi.
Why the U.S. Targeted This Russian Oligarch – Bloomberg. I realy think Trump missed his calling as a mobster.
Due Process - Lapham’s Quarterly. Very interesting. I personally see the regulatory state as a necessary part of modern life, but find everything else to be dead-on.
Data Visualization and Cholera: An Unexpected Connection - Visual Capitalist
The one baseball's been waiting for – ESPN. This dude is fascinating.
The Team With the Three-Man Rotation – Wall Street Journal
White Sox, Rays play in front of reported crowd of 974 – MSN News. From one of the biggest baseball-haters I know.
The Wonder Protein That Makes Cheese So Stretchy - The Atlantic
In the Battle for the American West, the Cowboys Are Losing – Wall Street Journal
Giant genitals were the downfall of some ancient crustaceans – Nature. Uh oh.
Ocean circulation is changing, and we need to know why - Nature
Lovely Weather We’re Having … Now Who Will Save Us? - Belt Magazine. I just came across Belt Magazine, but they have some terrific articles that are right in my wheel house.
More Mississippi bridges added to list; counties get 24 hours to begin closures – Mississippi Today. The Republican Party wants to make the rest of the country just like Mississippi.
Why the U.S. Targeted This Russian Oligarch – Bloomberg. I realy think Trump missed his calling as a mobster.
Due Process - Lapham’s Quarterly. Very interesting. I personally see the regulatory state as a necessary part of modern life, but find everything else to be dead-on.
Data Visualization and Cholera: An Unexpected Connection - Visual Capitalist
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Early April Weekend Links
Here are a few stories from the last few days:
Playing for Pop - San Antonio Express-News
The Broncos’ Futures program saved football in Denver Public Schools. But an even bigger impact of the feeder teams might still be seen- Denver Post
“The Clock Is Ticking”: Inside the Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades – Vanity Fair. I highly recommend this article.
So 2 Goats Were Stuck On A Beam Under A Bridge ... - Goats and Soda
Iowa producers say ethanol limits would be 'war' on rural U.S. - Des Moines Register
The Great Lakes Are Filling Up With Giant Green Blobs - Mother Jones
AP sources: EPA chief spent millions on security and travel - Associated Press. Scott Pruitt is an asshat.
Humankind’s Most Important Material - The Atlantic
How Congress Used the Post Office to Unite the Nation – Bloomberg
The Future of America's Economy Looks a Lot Like Elkhart, Indiana - Wall Street Journal. People are crazy, and this boom will end in tears.
Have we reached peak English in the world? - The Guardian and Brits are in denial about their diminishing importance – Handelsblatt
A Betrayal - ProPublica. This is an awful mess.
There's no good reason to stop felons from voting - George Will (?!)
How One Man Got Rich Selling Machine Guns – Bloomberg. Another terrible investment idea.
Playing for Pop - San Antonio Express-News
The Broncos’ Futures program saved football in Denver Public Schools. But an even bigger impact of the feeder teams might still be seen- Denver Post
“The Clock Is Ticking”: Inside the Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades – Vanity Fair. I highly recommend this article.
So 2 Goats Were Stuck On A Beam Under A Bridge ... - Goats and Soda
Iowa producers say ethanol limits would be 'war' on rural U.S. - Des Moines Register
The Great Lakes Are Filling Up With Giant Green Blobs - Mother Jones
AP sources: EPA chief spent millions on security and travel - Associated Press. Scott Pruitt is an asshat.
Humankind’s Most Important Material - The Atlantic
How Congress Used the Post Office to Unite the Nation – Bloomberg
The Future of America's Economy Looks a Lot Like Elkhart, Indiana - Wall Street Journal. People are crazy, and this boom will end in tears.
Have we reached peak English in the world? - The Guardian and Brits are in denial about their diminishing importance – Handelsblatt
A Betrayal - ProPublica. This is an awful mess.
There's no good reason to stop felons from voting - George Will (?!)
How One Man Got Rich Selling Machine Guns – Bloomberg. Another terrible investment idea.
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