https://thenib.com/holy-ground-christchurch-mosque-shooting
Right in the feels. 😥
Wisconsin swing voters tire of Trump – Axios
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N = 12. (That’s a tiny sample, methinks.)
GOP moves to rein in president’s emergency powers | TheHill
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/434333-gop-moves-to-rein-in-presidents-emergency-powers
Now that they’ve let Trump slide through, they’re going to block the next President, who might very well be a Democrat (if liberal voters can get their act together and not vote Stein or Johnson or Nader again — or Sanders, if he decides to run 3rd-party after losing the primary).
‘Not one woman got that kind of coverage’: Beto backlash begins – POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/15/beto-orourke-backlash-women-1223073
(Via @NickKristof retweeting @Amy_Siskind)
«Since announcing her 2020 run, Elizabeth Warren has dispensed three major policy proposals, held 30 campaign events and visited nearly a dozen states.
Since announcing his 2020 run, Beto O’Rourke has made one visit to Iowa, where he vaguely outlined his positions, including from atop a cafe counter.
Thread by @Stonekettle: “I want to show you something. I took this picture yesterday. This sign is displayed prominently in front of a local business not far from my […]”
As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/business/local-recycling-costs.html
Turns out we were never really recycling, just dumping in China. (E-waste, too, I believe.)
Out of sight, out of mind.
One year in, Facebook’s big algorithm change has spurred an angry, Fox News-dominated — and very engaged! — News Feed » Nieman Journalism Lab
“Programming Sucks”
https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
Can’t believe I never posted this to this blog.
« Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. It’s a different file for every programmer. Sometimes they wrote it, sometimes they found it and knew they had to save it. They read over the lines, and weep at their beauty, then the tears turn bitter as they remember the rest of the files and the inevitable collapse of all that is good and true in the world.
This file is Good Code. It has sensible and consistent names for functions and variables. It’s concise. It doesn’t do anything obviously stupid. It has never had to live in the wild, or answer to a sales team. It does exactly one, mundane, specific thing, and it does it well. It was written by a single person, and never touched by another. It reads like poetry written by someone over thirty.»
One Way to Make Reparations Work – Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-14/one-way-to-make-reparations-work
Glad to see some more-detailed discussions of reparations.
Study asks: Are 13 seminaries sustainable? | United Methodist News Service
https://www.umnews.org/en/news/study-asks-are-13-seminaries-sustainable
«“If the UMC wants to promote racial justice, the seminaries are already extraordinary laboratories where a wide variety of racial groups and international students learn to live in community,” said Jan Love, dean of Emory University’s Candler School of Theology in Atlanta. She was president of the Association of United Methodist Theological Schools when it commissioned the study.»
