Whatever populists say, “the experts” are the only ones who can save us from ourselves.
Month: June 2018
Two effective ways to shut down the person you are in the process of blaming for something and win any argument:
– Remind him that you hate his whiny voice
– Tell him that anything he might say is an excuse and you don’t want to hear any more of them
candlelight for tiananmen
this tumblr is back after a 10-day break. i was away from hong kong but has been with the city all this time, especially on the night of june 4.
29 years on hongkongers are still remembering the tiananmen square movement back in 1989. here is a clip from inkstonenews on jun 5 2018 on the candlelight vigil at victoria park on the night of june 4 2018.
It will never be good enough
The mean streets of New York – new speeding analysis of NYC drivers from @dashmobile and @NYURudin highlights dangerous roads:
I wish they would take this data seriously, but with our current mayor no one (except insurance companies maybe) will – and those who are supposed to enforce street safety are themselves some of the top culprits. They can’t even get Albany to allow the city to have speed cameras near schools.
Maybe the final drop among the reasons to leave here would be the new hire, a Japanese American woman with two grown kids, who has a peculiar and extremely annoying habit of frequent touching and calling me “honey”. She does it to others too. I seem to be the only one perturbed by this though.
‘Why Do New Mothers Hate Their Husbands?’
An interesting question, with an absolutely ridiculous and presumptuous answer. One can always follow the rule about always doing more than the other person, and never counting who does what and how much. That is not enough, and it never will be. The key is to accept that it’s how it’s going to be as a fact of life, an axiom, a baseline of human condition, and try to not think of what could have been, ask too many questions, and focus on the few positives that do exist.
It helps to know that you’re not the only one. And I knew it ahead of time, too. But it was arrogant to think that by being informed we could somehow do better.
https://qz.com/708438/the-parenting-happiness-gap-is-real-new-research-confirms/
@B_Ehrenreich
I have finally concluded that if you are a top advisor to the fiend who is ripping immigrant children from their parents, and if, in the midst of this ongoing horror, you post a photo of yourself kissing your baby son, you have earned the epithet “cunt.”
— Barbara Ehrenreich (@B_Ehrenreich) June 3, 2018
I do not agree with everything Ehrenreich writes, but this is perfect.
“The President is a nationalist, which is not a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us we are the best.”
— | Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
@stoweboyd
A long piece by Andy Beckett, Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs, questions the central role of work in our lives. Are we headed for a work without work: the post-work era?https://t.co/VDWG7nOSVr
— Stowe Boyd (@stoweboyd) June 4, 2018
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