A DSA amuse-bouche
by liberal japonicus Folks have been talking about this, so I thought I would toss in the NYT Daily on the DSA.
What is this middle class you talk about?
by liberal japonicus First of all, with all the doom scrolling I do, I’ve gotten a lot worse about keeping track of where I see things. so I don’t have the links to these anecdotes. Bearing that in mind, the question of what is middle class surfaced in the demography post, and I thought it … Read more
Jill Lepore on Hard Fork
by liberal japonicus From here I actually just think the idea that this extraordinary leap in human knowledge and our capacity to explore the world of ideas and the natural world around us in our lifetimes could come about and then be hawked at us like the the cheapest like new pair of shoes, but … Read more
Demography
by liberal japonicus This Guardian article touches on a point that I think is interesting, why so many Latinos are involved on the enforcement side of ICE. The final graf is The lesson is that we should stop treating Latino support for anti-immigration politics as a paradox. To the contrary, this is a part of … Read more
Your J. Alfred Prufrock Open thread
by liberal japonicus I an reaching the point where I measure out my life with 5 day open threads. How about y’all?
your Inshallah open thread
by liberal japonicus I guess the big news is from the Michiganders and Abdul El-Sayed. I like Jamelle Bouie’s encapsulation of this, which is Vote Blue No Matter Who. If anyone has a more granular view of the race, please drop it in the thread and feel free to write about anything else.
Inaptonym watch
by liberal japonicus One thing I like is to note inaptonyms, like the hair salon named Tangles or the copy shop named Typos (the Philippine Roman Catholic cardinal Jaime Sin is often on the top of the list) and this story, about an investment fund called Situational Awareness, definitely deserves a place of honor. Any … Read more
A quick note
by liberal japonicus I’ve mentioned, from time to time, that I live in Kyushu and perhaps I mentioned that I live in Kumamoto, so this post is to let everyone know that me and mine are ok. It apparently wasn’t as bad as the one 10 years ago (I was presenting at a conference and … Read more
Frostadóttir Saga
by liberal japonicus Lots of things in this Rest of Politics interview with Kristrún Frostadóttir to comment on. The first thing that struck me was her accent. She went to grammar school in the UK and her graduate work in the US and her accent is 95% USaian. About at the 40 minute mark, Campbell … Read more
Your Odyssey thread
by liberal japonicus Apologies for the radio silence, been watching lots of discussion about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. I limit myself to full length youtube videos, and I avoid shorts like the plague, but here is your invitation to post anything related that you think might be interesting.