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Posted on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 by William Cox

DirecTV Plus option will no longer include regional sports networks. —Business Insider Um, guys, I don’t think you understand what keeps television on li...

impulses

Posted on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 by William Cox

Learning anything new today, kids? I did. the meteor that created the Chesapeake Bay

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Only the Emperor’s Clothes Change

Posted on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 by William Cox

It’s remarkable how little changes over time. Doesn’t this 1989 complaint of Audre Lorde’s sound familiar? “We are a territory of the most powerful ...

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Posted on Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 by William Cox

One of my nieces is visiting for a while, and, as the other children are in school, the question asked is, “But what will she do all day?” I don’t know. W...

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Posted on Monday, March 11th, 2019 by William Cox

I’m glad to see that some people are talking about this silliness of working for a living.

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Posted on Thursday, March 7th, 2019 by William Cox

… Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985) 📚 … The Information Diet (2011) 📚 … Digital Minimalism (2019) 📚 …

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Posted on Thursday, March 7th, 2019 by William Cox

I’m reminded of the style Presteign of Presteign in The Stars My Destination (1957) 📚 .

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Posted on Thursday, March 7th, 2019 by William Cox

Border Walls are Symbols of Failure: Every border wall has a particular historical context behind its creation. Yet they all announce the same message to the wo...

drink/impulses/parentheses

Posted on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 by William Cox

A couple of pages later in Chronogram, what appears to be a lovely little cocktail made with a pine shrub and bitters: The Evergreen. Since there is no citrus i...

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Respect

Posted on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 by William Cox

One of my favorite things about the Internet is discovering kindred minds, often in unexpected places. Cate Huston writes in Why you can’t manage humans like th...

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Call a Spade a Spade

Posted on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 by William Cox

[S]cholar Edward Baptist (Cornell) has provided new terms with which to speak about slavery. In his 2014 book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Maki...

impulses

Posted on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 by William Cox

Maybe challenges to the status quo persist for millennia without changing the system because they aren’t actually a threat.

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RE/Search

Posted on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 by Will Cox

I’ve been browsing around the Internet while sitting in this meeting that doesn’t require my attention, and became curious about whether RE/Search i...

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Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Jared Newman over at Fast Company noticed that some people think “cord-cutting” —cancelling your cable or satellite TV subscription— is a bad idea. You kn...

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Revisions Needed

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. Anonymous I came across, by way of a ...

impulses/parentheses

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Lovely talk with Darina Allen of the Ballymaloe Cookery School. Cheap food is a myth.

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The Consumer Wins?

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

BBC Business Daily discusses 21st Century Monopolies with the Jonathan Tepper, author of The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition, and so...

impulses/parentheses

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Even accountants and lawyers need patrons. The Idler writes: It just seems so unfair. I feel like saying to my children: “Study accountancy, become a lawyer, go...

economics/impulses/parentheses/Work

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Jobs have become acts of charity for corporations. Sarah Kendzior, 2015

impulses/parentheses

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

How did we end up with this cult of Celebrity, that we permit anything done in its name?