NYT had a great article published this week, Ten Years Since Trayvon, and it’s wild to look at the past 10 years and see what really soured any progress that could have happened. The day George Zimmerman was acquitted was the end of a very brief moment in which I gave America the benefit of the doubt. Six days later, Barack Obama, the man responsible for that temporary suspension of disbelief, gave a speech that drove home for me how foolish I had been. The president acknowledged the pain many of us felt, but, ever the peddler of hope, he stressed that “as difficult and challenging as this whole episode has been for a lot of people, I don’t want us to lose sight that things are getting better.” I didn’t believe it when he said it, and it sounds even sillier to me now so many years later. Michael Arceneaux on The Day I Quit Believing If there’s one thing I’m decidedly not full of for the future of our country or species, it’s hope. What… Continue reading Ten Years Since Trayvon
Category: Micro
The Audacity
Twitter, after summarily destroying society as we know it by allowing their platform to be the bully pulpit of a Nazi-sympathizing, twice-impeached, racist, misogynistic idiot blowhard, is going to be rolling out a paid subscription to their service. I’d be more than okay with this if they separated their service into paid and unpaid and… Continue reading The Audacity
Final Command
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command… and if all others accepted the lie, which the party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. George Orwell, 1984
Blue
Zoom.
You know, I think people are clinging to the idea that they can simply continue to work and block out all the shit that’s swirling around us daily. I think they want to forget about the pandemic, the systematic racial violence, the people who can’t go to work because they had to close or their… Continue reading Zoom.
‘I Wish I Could Do Something For You,’ My Doctor Said
This sounds horrendous. You really don’t want to get it. Wear your masks. Keep each other safe. Don’t be so eager to get back to big crowds… I am one of the lucky ones. I never needed a ventilator. I survived. But 27 days later, I still have lingering pneumonia. I use two inhalers, twice… Continue reading ‘I Wish I Could Do Something For You,’ My Doctor Said
1SR: Blue Moon Iced Coffee Blonde
A one-sentence review of Blue Moon Iced Coffee Blonde. Hits a delicate balance of a deep porter-like finish with the bright, citrusy notes typical of Blue Moon’s regular wheat ale. Very happy I picked one up with my mix-a-six today. Wish I would have gotten two.
Analogue Pocket
Official want of the day, even though it won’t be out until sometime in 2020… the Analogue Pocket.
Parenting and Panic
Parenting is a hostage situation: you’re in the car, but your child is the one driving it—and he doesn’t know how to drive. You can’t get out, because you decided to love him before you knew who he was—before he even was anyone. Your life split at that point into multiple tracks, and one of… Continue reading Parenting and Panic
Lazy Caturday
It took a little while to get these two used to each other, but now they’re best friends.