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Vsalonistas. Please share journalism of the day you find compelling.
Brief comments appreciated, not required.
The consequences of mankind cruelty passes over us like a wave. When the suffocation retreats what is left after many years?. Memories, historical references, physical scars???? Memorials such as the one described in this article are made real by artists and visionaries who force us to stare wide eyed. These are lasting, these force us to feel and see what was.
This >> A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It. - The New York Times
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This should be great, TT, awesome idea.
Read this yesterday :: https://bittersoutherner.com/the-red...quila-ogletree
I grew up ~35 miles from there, and my world was/is completely different. The 'typical a-hole white guy' in me does wonder where the parents of all those grand kids are, why shes stuck with them, what decisions lead to the current circumstances. I was raised to believe that we're all the result of the decisions we make - good or bad, and we are solely responsible for those decisions. I still believe that to be largely true, but as I try to be more empathetic and understanding of others I also know that things outside our control have a big impact on the decisions we make and the way we look at the world. The older I get the more I realize just how lucky I am the have the upbringing I had. The love, discipline, and expectations my parents had (and still have) for me are the reason I am who I am today. I'm eternally thankful for that.
There's a lot of good stuff on The Bitter Southerner actually, highly recommend browsing around a bit.
A semi-friend of mine wrote this. He's a rider too.
Looking For An Oasis In Georgia Food Deserts | Georgia Public Broadcasting
Again...access to transportation or food has never been a problem in 'my' world. One thing I have noticed in the local news media is how some folks seem to make Kroger out to be the bad guy, but they're a business, they *have* to make a profit in order to operate. They closed the store because it wasn't making a profit. High theft rate and a lot of frivolous slip and fall lawsuits apparently.
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I had the intense pleasure of hearing Bryan Stevenson speak to my synagogue a few years back. He is, without a doubt, one of the most impressive human beings I've ever heard speak. He is a truly remarkable person and I would dive deep into anything he chooses to be part of.
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that was a good read.
idk why but two words in that read really stood out to me..."trap houses"
the idea of trapping people in their community in a cycle of drug addiction and sex work to make money from their addiction is so gnarly.
i also can't help but see it as a similar action to what the pharma companies did with oxycontin and fentanyl.
this was a pretty good read.
The Family That Built an Empire of Pain | The New Yorker
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that was a good read.
idk why but two words in that read really stood out to me..."trap houses"]
This is a tourist attraction in Atlanta!
https://www.ajc.com/rf/image_lowres/...on%20Owen.jpeg
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I listened to this interview driving north to go skiing last week, and hung in the car to finish it.
WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation With Yale Professor Timothy Snyder About His New Book | WAMC
This is nutrient dense. Your time will not be wasted. After I finish reading CV Wedgwood's three volume history of the English Civil War I will move on to his recent book.
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Bryan Stevenson and the Legacy of Lynching | The New Yorker
This too.
I am so glad that I took to the bike as a kid. Keeps the lid on.
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I see that as well CookieTruck. The drug combination itself is insidious. (more on that: 'You want a description of hell?' OxyContin's 12-hour problem #InvestigatingOxy - Los Angeles Times )
One of my clients gave me this: Longreads (@Longreads) on Twitter My first day reading the feed, I can tell it will be good.
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Tomothy Snyder's Bloodlands is an incredible book. Well-researched/well-argued, illuminating, devastating, all the above.
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74 Seconds : NPR
In my opinion is is an excellent piece of journalism. It looks into the police shooting of Philando Castile.
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One problem solved. I just found a smokin' deal on The New Yorker.
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photos, not print, but insight you'd never be able to get otherwise:
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/20...-marai/559241/
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The Poison Papers shows how we can't trust that what we are told is safe actually is. Follow the Benjamins.
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The Poison Papers shows how we can't trust that what we are told is safe actually is. Follow the Benjamins.
Thanks. I'll finish this over a large coffee.
Speaking of following the Benjamins. This is not mind blowing by any means. However, the method or motivation for so called white collar crime is less insidious than we may want to believe. I liken this to folks selling their excess employee provided transportation vouchers justified as a benefit "owed" to them thus is theirs to own or trade. Morality, what the @#$% is it really????
Too many words. Here is the beef >> The Baby-Formula Crime Ring - The New York Times
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Just plowed through this New York Times Magazine article titled "The Man Who Cracked The Lottery" - a brilliant read - can someone paste the link? How do non-subscribers access?
Permalink below just in case
https://nyti.ms/2KvNzZf
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Just plowed through this New York Times Magazine article titled "The Man Who Cracked The Lottery" - a brilliant read - can someone paste the link? How do non-subscribers access?
Permalink below just in case
https://nyti.ms/2KvNzZf
I think you must have a subscription.
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The Poison Papers shows how we can't trust that what we are told is safe actually is. Follow the Benjamins.
2,4,D and @,4,5,T were common agricultural chemicals in my grandparents' time, and were applied to the alfalfa fields around their house. He developed cancer around 60 and died three years later. My aunt recovered from throat cancer that had a remission rate of .04%, and remains a miracle.
These were sprayed along roadsides when I was farming in Norcal in the '70's, and were also used in the understory of woodlands in the interest of fire prevention. I remember riding past the spraying once, and I developed a nasty bronchial infection after.
Modern farming devolved from the arms industry. Zyklon was a pesticide that had a tell-tale odor, so it was reformulated as Zyklon-B, which was odorless. The rest is history.
We are winning the war on Nature.
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Well, not exactly journalism, per se, but this, from Jacquie Phelan, really brightened my morning:
May 19, 2018
Charlie (for the first time ever) suggested we take out the tandem. This is "huge" (forgive the shopworn cliche)
because normally he's not initiating stuff.
But he's heard me on the phone with the folks at RAGBRAI (yes, we're going to ride the biggest bike ride across a deceptively hilly "flat state": Iowa, this summer. To see we can survive such a challenge, especially since Charlie 1.0 never ever traveled with me.
It happened to be a cool, half-sunny spring day. Wind defined it. The Nicasio Reservoir loop probably climbs a total of 1,200 ft, most of it right out of town up White's Hill.
As we twiddled in the tiny gear, motor traffic boomed past like a string of bomber airplanes one after the other. Then, a spell of 3, 5, maybe even 7 seconds of silence blessed us as we rode. Must be because of the traffic lights down in town, sending up pulses of noisemaking machines.
Around the reservoir, we cut through the wind like a dull knife cuts through a five-lb block of Tillamook medium cheddar. The blackish-green reservoir's surface had long white stretch marks running the length of the lake. Usually you see little transverse waves, but these 'corduroy' wavelets must be a result of strong wind...meanwhile, up on the farmland that curves high above the road, stripes of green alfalfa and gold chaff lay just like they do in England. We really do have it all here.
The long green grass was being tousled by the wind in gorgeous waves. Sometimes the wind took a breather, and the grass would come to a halt.
We twiddled on.
We're experimenting with gel saddle covers on TOP of gooshy gel saddles to relieve Charlie's crotchly pain.
I have been soldiering on, ignoring my whimpering pubic bones, and finally realized that a "Flite" saddle is not anything like the superb, very old and out-of-print saddles on each of my bikes (brand name not forthcoming).
Our friend Tasshi D. dropped by and I had him put my 'good' saddle on the Red Rover tandem, and I can't wait to try it out.
We've been on a roughly once a week riding routine, but since RAGBRAI is ahem seven straight days of about 60 miles (our loop is..ulp..32 miles) I figure I'll have to up it, and hope CC doesn't howl. He enthused about flowers ("is that a convolvulus?" he'd ask, as we whizzed past a little patch of pinkish white trumpets that were in fact convolvulus.
Baby steps
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I like her writing style. Thanks ides.
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I check this every few days. Great insight into the workings of the military all over the world with a healthy dose of history to remind us of what can happen if we ignore it.
CDR Salamander
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Wow, Dustin, thanks for posting that. That hits heavy. I've never known anything close to difficulty. I should count my blessings.
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Brilliant piece of writing on visiting a Christian rock festival:
Upon this Rock by John Jeremiah Sullivan
If you like Rock, JJS has a book of magazine features titled Pulphead: Essays published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
John and I were in the same class at Sewanee although our paths didn't cross despite just 1500 students.
And I think the Shit-Town podcast most definitely qualifies as illuminating journalism:
S-Town Podcast
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Paris Review - Hippies
Maybe you have to be a certain age to really appreciate this, or to have lived in Northern California in the '70's, before things went south.
Denis Johnson is a favorite of mine. Read Angels if you haven't.
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@ides1056 you can only read a portion of the Hippies article without subscribing
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Fascinating bit of Michael Pollan’s new book on psychedelics:
My Adventures With the Trip Doctors - The New York Times
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Holliscx wins for using the new VSalon mention function and Hippies.
This thread is keeping me happy not to mention I'd never before known what is a Trap House.
The last video game I played was Pong. There was a brief stint with Doom. I remember spending a weekend playing that game and for weeks peering around corners IRL ;)
The New Yorker article on the game world of Fortnite is illustrative how little I know about gaming today. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...arts-and-minds
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This is a great bit, and nice to see someone who does not fall into the stereotypical traps of psychedelic culture writing about this important topic. I worked for MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) for some time and continue to work as a scientist/professional studying drugs of this nature and am very much looking forward to this book. Thanks for sharing!
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Holliscx wins for using the new VSalon mention function and Hippies.
This thread is keeping me happy not to mention I'd never before known what is a Trap House.
The last video game I played was Pong. There was a brief stint with Doom. I remember spending a weekend playing that game and for weeks peering around corners IRL ;)
The New Yorker article on the game world of Fortnite is illustrative how little I know about gaming today.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...arts-and-minds
I've played video games since I was a kid, but it was never my main hobby, always something to do when the weather didn't allow outside play, or late at night, home sick from school, etc. I still play some, but I don't care about online multiplayer and have never watched videos of people playing (other than reviews of games on YouTube). So this, to me, is shocking/crazy:
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The medium’s breakout star is known as Ninja. He is a former professional Halo player named Tyler Blevins, who has said that he makes more than half a million dollars a month by streaming his Fortnite sessions, and his free-associative commentary, on Twitch (which is owned by Amazon). His YouTube channel has more than ten million subscribers. Last month, he hosted a Fortnite tournament in Las Vegas, in an e-sports arena, and almost seven hundred thousand people tuned in to his Twitch stream. I’ve heard many teens refer to him as America’s biggest entertainer—which is not as hyperbolic as it sounds. In April, Ninja ranked higher than any athlete in the world in “social interactions,” a measure of social-media likes, comments, shares, and views. Cristiano Ronaldo was No. 2. In March, Ninja consented to a Fortnite session with Drake.
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Pro Tip: sign up for an InstaPaper account (it's free), and add the various plugins to your browser(s).
On LongForm.org there is an option to save any link to your offline reader of choice, including InstaPaper.
I save up long articles for plane rides and knock out a handful at a time.
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Pro Tip: sign up for an InstaPaper account (it's free), and add the various plugins to your browser(s).
On LongForm.org there is an option to save any link to your offline reader of choice, including InstaPaper.
I save up long articles for plane rides and knock out a handful at a time.
Oh wow...will do. Thanks Matt.
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NYT, WaPo, Mother Jones and The Nation are to my eye comprehensive journalism. Two new favorites are:
The Atlantic
The New Republic
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Annie Dillard's "Total Eclipse" may have been posted here before, but it's so powerful it deserves a second mention:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/...clipse/536148/
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@
ides1056 you can only read a portion of the Hippies article without subscribing
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the collection of his journalism, from which this was excerpted, was terrific
Jesus' Son, a collection of short stories, is another peak experience
Angels is on my list of great books written in the past fifty years
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First, really good article on an ex-CIA agent becoming a beat cop.
Funny part, how finding a job where you can read entire issues of The Economist
can get you a CIA job.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...-who-came-home
""Later that year, Skinner left the Capitol Police and became an air marshal.
One day, he got a call from a blocked number.
“You applied to work for the government?” the caller asked.
“I already work for the government,” Skinner replied.
“Yeah, but I mean the government.”
The caller was a recruiter for the C.I.A.
“He asked me some rapid-fire questions—‘Is the Indus River north or south of Kashmir?’
‘What was the date of Partition?’
‘Name five towns in the occupied West Bank’—
basically to cross me off his list,”
Skinner said. “But I knew all the answers, because I had sat on airplanes for the past six months,
doing nothing but reading newspapers and The Economist.”"
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The guy is not a journalist, but once you hear what he's talking about, it shows how awful corporate journalism in the US is. Relevant links to the original source are in the video description.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gmTKwE7BjY
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I found myself holding my breath as I read this day-by-day recap of the Cuban missile crisis, even though I knew how the story ended.
Cuban Crisis: A Step-by-Step Review
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Evan, no kidding.
I wanted to share this yesterday however felt it respectful to waitna day. Jerry Marin passed. He was the last surviving Munchkins. His quiet dignity, in life, speaks volumes. I love the man for exactly what he was and how he endured. If there is truth in how we live out our lives maybe these qualities are amplified when that life comes with the weight of the world. Jerry Maren, Who Sang and Danced as a Munchkin in Oz, Dies at 98 - The New York Times