- Bartlett: GWB Looks Worse in Hindsight (The New Republic) By any objective measure, George W. Bush was worse than Donald Trump, but Bush comes from dynastic politics and knew which fork to use, so now Democrats say nice things about him.
- Moths draped in stealth acoustic cloak evade bat sonar (Chemistry World) Nature is cool.
- Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway (Literary Hub) Here is the money quote, “And the ethical is not halfway between white supremacists and human rights activists, rapists and feminists, synagogue massacrists and Jews, xenophobes and immigrants, delusional transphobes and trans people. Who the hell wants unity with Nazis until and unless they stop being Nazis?”
- How three conspiracy theorists took ‘Q’ and sparked Qanon (NBC) There is always someone making money off of this crap.
- The Anonymous Lawyer Behind @nyttypos (The Ringer) The New York Times laid off its copy editors, and this guy won’t let them forget it.
- Bob Dylan: The Lost Bar Mitzvah Tapes (Untold Dylan) In the basement of Dylan’s old synagogue, now a church, they found tapes made by the Cantor.
- Commentary: Want to avoid pandemics? Eliminate factory farming (Chicago Tribune) Factory farming is a Petri dish for contagion.
- Artist Draws World’s Largest Doodles By Riding His Bike With GPS (Bored Panda) What? No dick pics?
- In praise of Dungeons and Dragons (The Week) I’m a gamer geek.
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